This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on February 26, 2014.
Want to see the future of medical cannabis in this country? Look up north to Canada.
On April 1 the Canadian government is getting out of the medical cannabis business and handing over the reigns to private corporations. Citing several public safety concerns, the government will still tax and regulate but no longer allow others to grow the plant. And by regulate we mean arrest growers who grow for themselves or a patient. A return to normalcy if you will.
At moment there are only 8 companies authorized to grow the medicine for the country’s roughly 40,000 patients, and any marijuana grown in excess can be exported from the country and shipped to other parts of the world where marijuana is legal.
Quite a system they will have up north, that is if you are one of the fortunate companies on the ground floor, or the government that will continue taxing and have another opportunity to profit from enforcement and prohibition of individual citizen farmers.
What is good for Canada is good for the United States. Many politicians agree with the conservative Canadian model. What do you think? Should we outlaw individuals growing marijuana in the United States.
No way will they stop my right to provide my own medications and this will lead to more arrests and not less for pot. What a bunch of bs.