>From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Good news from the North >Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:54:21 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > >Subj: Canada: Wire: Sick Man Wins OK To Smoke Marijuana >From: How To: http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm >Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:22:15 -0800 >Size: 34 lines 1233 bytes >File: v00.n036.a01 >URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n036.a01.html > >Pubdate: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 >Source: Canadian Press (Canada) >Copyright: 2000 The Canadian Press (CP). > >SICK MAN WINS OK TO SMOKE MARIJUANA > >OTTAWA (CP) - Health Canada has given Robert Brown the okay to smoke >marijuana after the victim of hepatitis C spent two days camped in the >rain on Parliament Hill protesting for the right to do so. > >Brown, 43, is the 20th person given such approval since Health Canada >said last spring it would begin clinical trials into the therapeutic >use of marijuana. > >Brown got the good news on a cell phone during his Hill vigil this >week. > >''I'm feeling pretty sick, but I'm feeling pretty good,'' he said >after hearing the verdict. > >Jeff Pendler, a Health Canada spokesperson, said Brown's cold vigil >didn't influence the decision, but may have speeded up processing of >his application, which was already in the final stages. > >''Obviously, the fact that he was out in the cold and getting sicker >probably (accelerated) gathering the last bit of information,'' he >said. > >Brown faces charges of possession, cultivating and intent to traffic >in marijuana. He was charged after police raided his farmhouse in >December 1998. > > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: