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CN NS: Woman Sufferer Joins Marijuana Suit
ccguide Thursday 23 May 2002 Pubdate: Thu, 23 May 2002 Source: Daily News, The (CN NS) Copyright: 2002 The Daily News Contact: Website: http://www.canada.com/halifax/dailynews/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/179 Author: Beverley Ware Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal - Canada) WOMAN SUFFERER JOINS MARIJUANA SUIT A Nova Scotia woman with multiple sclerosis has joined six Ontarians in suing the federal government for access to marijuana. Debbie Stultz-Giffin of Bridgetown, Annapolis Co., wants a court to order Ottawa to distribute more than 250 kilograms of dope grown by Health Canada in Manitoba. She said her MS causes unrelenting muscle spasms and pain, and only marijuana provides any relief. Stultz-Giffin has a federal medical marijuana exemption, which means she is legally allowed to smoke the drug to help with her pain and symptoms. The hoops and loops that Health Canada forced me to jump through in order to be able to use my medication are ludicrous, she said in a news release yesterday. The government is forcing gravely ill people to perform like circus bears in order to satisfy their unrealistic criteria, she said. Stultz-Giffin said she fought nine months to find a doctor willing to fill out the paperwork for her to apply for an exemption to smoke marijuana. The red tape forces people like her to get the drug on the black market at inflated prices with no quality control, she said. Federal Health Minister Anne McLellan has said she wont release any of the marijuana to patients until it has been tested in clinical trials first. - --- MAP posted-by: Josh
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