URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1583/a02.html
Newshawk: M & M Family
Pubdate: Sat, Aug. 24, 2002
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2002 San Jose Mercury News
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PROTESTERS DECRY PACE OF MEDICINAL-POT PLAN
Scores of protesters, including some in wheelchairs, marched peacefully
Friday to urge Canada's government to fully adopt a medicinal-marijuana
program.
The demonstrators in downtown Toronto charged that there were lengthy delays
in the government providing marijuana to eligible patients with certain
diseases or conditions.
The new regulations took effect a year ago, but so far none of the marijuana
grown by the government has been distributed. Under the program, patients
certified as eligible also may grow their own.