Canada Patients Get Government Marijuana - APR

TORONTO - Jari Dvorak scored two ounces of pot Tuesday and lit up, but — unlike in the past — the deal involved no back alley exchange or hiding from police.


This time, the 62-year-old Dvorak went to a doctor to pick up his supply, making him one of the first patients to receive government-grown marijuana. He paid $245, tax included.


"I just smoked some and it's doing the trick," said the HIV (news - web sites)-positive Dvorak, one of several hundred Canadians authorized to use medical marijuana for pain, nausea and other symptoms of catastrophic or chronic illness.

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Getting it has been a three-year struggle for Dvorak and other Canadian patients who have battled through the courts to make the government respond to what they call their need for a compassionate exemption from criminal law.

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Keeping any drug from someone when it could help them is inhumane.

I am deiighted at this change.