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Quebec Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Raided
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| Dj Nacht |
Anyone else affected by this news? A lot of bad stuff happening lately here in Canada. First Marc gets extradited and now this :(
Quebec Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Raided, Arrests Planned
By Beyond Prohibition Foundation/Cannabis Culture - Thursday, June 3 2010
A police officer can be seen inside the compassion club on St. Laurent boulevard in Montreal. (CBC Photo)CANNABIS CULTURE - Quebec Police conducted raids on five medical marijuana dispensaries in the province today and are planning at least 25 arrests.
Four dispensaries in Montreal and one is Quebec city were included in the super-raid. Police confirmed the raid and say they will be making arrests.
There has been confirmation of police raids from Montreal Compassion Centre, the oldest dispensary in Quebec, as well as the Montreal Compassion Club and Quebec (City) Compassion Centre.
These followed last months police raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in Toronto and Guelph. Legitimate Dispensaries in Canada use the same strict protocols to ensure only legitimate medical marijuana users access their services.
"These are sick and dying people, patients, whose only relief is from medical marijuana. Why on earth would Quebec police act so callously?" said Jacob Hunter, Policy Director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation. "Courts have ruled these patients have a right to access medical marijuana; a right Health Canada ignores for hundreds of thousands of Canadians. These dispensaries serve the thousands of patients unable to access Health Canada's byzantine system, and most importantly, the courts have acknowledged this fact."
Since Health Canada established its medical marijuana program, four different courts have ruled parts of it unconstitutional for limiting access. In the most recent cases, changed ordered to the number of patients to producers (originally 2:1) and producers to location (originally 3:1) were met by Health Canada with the absolute minimum change possible, 2:1 became 3:1 and 3:1 became 4:1. This consistently bad-faith compliance with court orders on the part of Health Canada is partially why medical marijuana dispensaries have been found to be legal in court.
"It's unconscionable to force critically and chronically Quebecers onto the streets to obtain medicine and today's police raids represent yet another gift by police to organized crime in the form of at least 10,000 new customers," said Kirk Tousaw, Executive Director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation. "The tragic irony, is that in the name of combating 'crime' the police are ensuring that street dealers and those that control them will profit immensely at the expense of the sick and dying. The only saving grace is that S-10, the Conservatives' mandatory minimum punishment agenda, has not been implemented, because otherwise compassionate caregivers would be facing a mandatory year in a cage for helping these ill and suffering Canadians." |
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| jester |
1. Bill 101? Maybe someone didn't get served in French first.
2. Someone sold to someone who was not sick
3. Someone sold to someone that was sick and than shared it with someone else.
4. Its Quebec. Quebec thinks they are their own country so Canadian laws do now apply.
5. If someone wants to read about #5 just PM me.
Anything possible. Guess we will find out the reason soon enough. |
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| Comrade Stalin |
| Canada has such a low crime rate, the police had nothing better to do...:stongue: |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
1. Bill 101? Maybe someone didn't get served in French first.
2. Someone sold to someone who was not sick
3. Someone sold to someone that was sick and than shared it with someone else.
4. Its Quebec. Quebec thinks they are their own country so Canadian laws do now apply.
5. If someone wants to read about #5 just PM me.
Anything possible. Guess we will find out the reason soon enough. |
are you for ing real?
These hippies are selling to anyone that shows up, the health card to get some legally is not even mandatory or asked for. The owner said so on tv a few days ago.
These hippies want a a full head on collision with the government and are willing to go to the supreme court (again) to get the thing legalized for everyone. It was pretty obvious, watch it unfold in the next years. |
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| netroM |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
These hippies want a a full head on collision with the government and are willing to go to the supreme court (again) to get the thing legalized for everyone. It was pretty obvious, watch it unfold in the next years. |
Here's an interesting article: http://www.time.com/time/health/art...1893946,00.html |
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| Zharen |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
These hippies want a a full head on collision with the government and are willing to go to the supreme court (again) to get the thing legalized for everyone. It was pretty obvious, watch it unfold in the next years. |
What's wrong with that? I think it's pathetic how so many countries have adopted such anti-drug laws because of the US. |
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| Sushipunk |
Interesting read.
My only qualm, without properly knowing how the study (or studies) were conducted, is how much of the percentage cuts noted in the article were directly attributable the legalisation of those drugs? Or, whether the decrease in usage numbers/deaths etc. were (at least partly) linked to variables like access to drug education programs, as well as 'passive' influences, like being able to access good quality information about drugs and their use, from the internet or other sources. |
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| netroM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Interesting read.
My only qualm, without properly knowing how the study (or studies) were conducted, is how much of the percentage cuts noted in the article were directly attributable the legalisation of those drugs? Or, whether the decrease in usage numbers/deaths etc. were (at least partly) linked to variables like access to drug education programs, as well as 'passive' influences, like being able to access good quality information about drugs and their use, from the internet or other sources. |
The whole publication is here
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080 |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| all marijuana should be outlawed....death sentence to anyone who sells this crap. |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zharen
What's wrong with that? |
everything.
Seen enough goo friends waste years of their lives because of it... |
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| Dj Nacht |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
everything.
Seen enough goo friends waste years of their lives because of it... |
Its your friends man! I have the same friends and I know its them and not because they smoke. I used to smoke and when I did I would open a book and study php/mysql or make music etc.. The people who do nothing would have done nothing even if they didn't smoke IMO.
I only feel bad for the sick people who have to go back to the streets to get there weed. The lachine dispensary ruined it for everyone by letting anyone in. I have friends that are not sick and have there cards because its easy to get. That is Canadas fault for leaving a loophole in the laws. Instead of fixing the loophole they close everything down? pretty stupid. |
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