A REAL BUZZ KILLER

Considering the Ottawa Liberals' track record in matters like these, it was
all but guaranteed to happen. AIDS sufferers and other chronic pain victims
who are part of the federal government's dubious and controversial
medicinal marijuana program are complaining about the quality of the
government dope and are demanding their money back.

Some of them complained that despite consuming a large amount of the feds'
smoke they only felt a slight "buzziness" that lasted for a few minutes.
(Gee, wasn't the program supposed to have something to do with pain relief?)

And another said he had to smoke so much of Ottawa's inferior dope that it
made him throw up.

Considering that the reason he got a permit for medicinal marijuana in the
first place was to alleviate the nausea associated with AIDS, it would seem
to be counterproductive.

Remember, this isn't the "righteous quality" grass that reportedly comes
from illegal hydroponic grow operations or secret mountain valley
plantations in the West Kootenays.

It's produced directly from Ottawa's own marijuana farm down an old nickel
mine in Northern Manitoba, where the stuff is grown under tight security.

Only a whacky politician like ex-health minister Allan Rock could come up
with a goofy operation like that.

A goofy operation, we should emphasize, that doesn't appear to work. Or, at
least, work to the satisfaction of clinical marijuana users. (More proof of
the superiority of the private sector, we guess.)

It's just another in the long list of bloopers and blunders at the hands of
the chronically incompetent federal Liberal government.

It's also something that Canadian doctors said about the government's
strange clinical marijuana experiment from the beginning.

How can a medical doctor, who is supposed to operate under strict
scientific principals, prescribe marijuana when its therapeutic benefits
have not been proven and there is no way to effectively measure the amount
of the drug that patients are taking?

The prescribed dosage is pretty much "toke until you feel good."

The fact that Ottawa's own highly regulated grow operation is clearly
unable to control the amount of THC in its weed not only confirms the
doctors' concerns, but it also brings into question the whole bizarre
concept in the first place.

Health Minister Anne McLellan is on record as saying she opposes the
program that was imposed on the feds by an Ontario judge.

Complaints by the medicinal pot users should only add fuel to the fire. But
in the meantime the Ottawa Liberals' credibility gap only got wider.

And all we can say is "Far out, man."