SICK PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO SUE FOR THEIR BASIC RIGHTS

Regarding your story "Feds' bid for control of pot up in smoke," Oct.
28: this ruling is unlikely to stop Health Canada from making things
difficult for medical pot users. They have repeatedly ignored or
refused to comply with previous rulings, and because of underfunding
and understaffing at Health Canada offices, people have to wait months
for paperwork to be cleared for such things as grow permits or address
changes. The arbitrary and discriminatory rules they have now (plant
and storage limits not least of them) keep many sick people from
getting the medicine they need, and leave many sick people to go
months without. I have little optimism that this ruling will change
much of anything. Sick people will have to continue to sue for their
basic rights.

Russell Barth

(They should decriminalize pot, and reap a host of benefits.)