CANADA PLANNING TO LET PHARMACIES SELL MARIJUANA

TORONTO - Canada plans to make government certified marijuana
available in local pharmacies, a move that would make it only the
second country in the world to allow the direct sale of medical marijuana.

Officials are organizing a pilot project in the British Columbia
province modeled on a year-old program in the Netherlands.

Currently, there are 78 medical users in Canada permitted to buy
government marijuana which is grown in Flin Flon Manitoba.

An ounce sells for about $113, and the marijuana is sent by courier to
patients or their doctors. But the department is changing the rules to
allow participating pharmacies to stock marijuana for sale to approved
patients without a doctor's prescription.