So much for that vaunted health-care coverage they got up there in Canada...

[The Brain]

<a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3114922.stm target=new>Canada givin' out medicinal marijuana... full of some bad mojo.</a>

Two years ago Canada became the first country to regulate medicinal cannabis, but there was a lack of official supply of the drug and some patients complained they still had to buy it from street dealers.


Matthew says \"marijuana does not turn you crazy like alcohol does\"
The Health Ministry's official supply is being grown underground in an abandoned mine in Canada's remote north.

Health Minister Anne McLellan says she does not want it distributed to patients, at least not yet.

But this July a court ruled the government had to sell the drug to patients, so that is now happening.

Unfortunately many patients say the government's marijuana is terrible, with one saying it made him physically ill, another reporting it to be so weak and unpleasant he is returning it to the government with hopes of getting his money back.

One medicinal marijuana lobby group also says test results show the official supply has little active ingredient and <b>is contaminated with lead and arsenic</b>.

<a href=http://mediresource.sympatico.ca/health_news_detail.asp?channel_id=0&news_id=2275 target=new>Here's another article describing that wacky Canadian tabaccy.</a>

GIP, you better take your own supply up there. :nod:

And what the hell are the rest of us supposed to do, what with the glaucoma we all just developed like two hours ago (wink, wink)?