WHAT DO YOU THINK?

In mid 2009, I was contacted by an Ottawa lawyer whose client was
unable to get a doctor to sign his medical marijuana license forms
from Health Canada. The patient was having near-constant seizures due
to a brain injury, medical negligence, and pharmaceutical intolerance.
He was told he had "months to live". I put the lawyer in touch with an
Ottawa neurologist whom I knew had signed the Health Canada Medical
Marijuana forms for other people with seizure disorders. A few months
ago, the lawyer contacted me again. Now the issue was supply. The
government-grown pot is unreliable and street weed was worse. The
patient was unable to grow at home. So I put them in touch with a
Compassion Club, who immediately supplied several grams per day to the
patient for free, as many do for extreme cases. I am now told that the
patient is almost seizure-free, his stress has reduced to almost zero
because he doesn't fear imminent seizures and death, and he is
planning, he says, to live for several more years. And Stephen Harper
says that marijuana is "bad." What do you think?

Russell Barth,
Ottawa

(The war on drugs stupidly wastes time and money.)