POT LICENSE EQUALS MEDICAL SEGREGATION

What Canadians fail to recognize is that the medical marijuana
"licences" we are supposed to carry around amount to nothing less than
legislated medical segregation. In Canada!

Think about that.

As federal medical marijuana licence holders, my wife and I (like Mr.
Wilcox, Oak Bay News, June 6) have to carry "special papers" to avoid
arrest because we have a medical condition.

"Legislated medical segregation." Ugly, isn't it? Okay, so it isn't
apartheid or the Warsaw ghetto, but this is how stuff like that starts
out: separate us from the rest of the flock so we are easier to pick
off later. Worse yet, sick people have to scrounge for this medicine,
then scrounge a mountain of money to fight their own government and
police for their rights in court, against a giant with bottomless pockets.

So much for Canada being a "just society".

RUSSELL BARTH

Federal Medical Marijuana License Holder

Ottawa