RANT & CHAT - No Politics

[TonyMcFadden]

waahhh???????

Canadian Government is a distributor now???

http://www.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp?id=n091543A

First tokers of Health Canada cannabis call it disgusting, want money back
Updated at 17:52 on September 15, 2003, EST.

OTTAWA (CP) - Some of the first patients to smoke Health Canada's government-approved marijuana say it's "disgusting" and want their money back.

"It's totally unsuitable for human consumption," said Jim Wakeford, 58, an AIDS patient in Gibsons, B.C. "It gave me a slight buzziness for about three to five minutes, and that was it. I got no other effect from it."

whathefook?

I know it's been over a decade since I've lived in Canada, but, whaaaat??????

The part I like the BEST?

The marijuana is being grown for Health Canada deep underground in a vacant mine section in Flin Flon, Man., by Prairie Plant Systems on a $5.75-million contract. The department originally intended that the product go first to accredited researchers to demonstrate whether or not cannabis is medically effective.

That's a zinc mine.

I used to work there (part of an engineering co-op program that went horribley wrong. Don't EVER go to northern Manitoba in the Winter...unless it's harvest time, of course. It's a constant 65 degrees (funkenhite) underground there, with humidity around 90%))

I could have been part of this!

Now that the gov't has to sell the stuff, they should hire a consultant to improve quality control.. I'd volunteer, but I'm in Singapore, and that kinda stuff is frowned on here.

Spider Robinson might be available...