WHATFG
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I read it. The gov wanted the supporting document from Dr. Walsh to hold no weight. It's part of the reasoning. He's done research relating to access and reasons for therapeutic use of mj, and published ( that's important) 1 million Canadians reported using mj to treat self defined conditions, yet only 28,115 Canadians had ATPs. He found that cost was the greatest barrier to use, especially seriously ill folks.
Dr. Boyd is a prof a UVic and she co- authored "Killer Weed : MJ. Grow ops,media and justice" and she studies drug law and policy ( awesome that Conroy found theses people) she questions and criticizes the link between grow ops and violence, fire from indoor growing. Says that PPL and DPL sites can work with guidelines, education and monitoring, but HC fucked up. ( my summary...my words lol) says the media is partly to blame for creating a link between fire, mold, property damage that is unsupported by stats.
Corporal Holmquist RCMP, BC MMPR coordinator involved in approving LP's. He has seen monster plants well beyond what licences allowed...but did not get destroyed. Says licences are used to disguise commercial scale grow ops. His opinion is,that people sell extra mj because of the high cost of electricity, and selling often involves organized crime. He doesn't like the 30 day supply either. Grow ops are 24 more times likely to have fire and because of the controlled nature people die cause they can't get out. He's seen mold, chemical from extractions. He's seen injuries on people from burning themselves on lights or slipping on excess water. Grow rips are becoming increasing popular and are violent and involve weapons. Medibles left laying around can easily be ingested by the children living in the house. LPs on the other hand have strict growing, security and packaging that make him feel better.
Dr. Grootendorst is an AP at the U of T focusing on health economics (now theres a buzz word eh?) He provided expert report with respect to projected marketplace trends under the mmpr and the impacts on lps if med mari users aren't required to purchase from LPs or HC. He figures the price will drop over time as long as the number of patients accessing the system grows sufficiently.( what about the exponential growth that was a problem with mmar?) if patients are exempted then the size of the market will be smaller (duh) so therefor prices will decline slower,prices will increase over time, and eventually no lps will exist to produce med mari (YEAH!!) No opinion as to likelihood.
Jeanne Ritchot former Dir. of Med Mari Regulatory Reform at HC., former Dir of Bureau of Medical Cannabis, office of controlled subs. and tobacco directorate, oversaw admin of mmar and developed mmpr policy. she says the goal of mmar was to strike a balance between providing legal access to mj while controlling access to controlled substance respecting the cdsa. and to protect the public health and security. the rapid expansion has compromised the goals.says law enforcement wanted the end to ppl and dpl. the new program is so that mj can be treated like other drugs.
Todd Cain is the Exec. Dir. of Market Development and Customer Safety Branch of HC. He's facilitating the transiton between programs and resolving issues regarding developmet of stable supply base for med mari by lps. This guy is responsible for the call centre. 25 new applications a week. LPs pricing is $5- $12 /g with discounts as low as $3, and they have a stockpile to meet demand march 31.Reasonable access is assured.
So those are the players. It really is quite fascinating. If there is interest, I will continue to summarize the decision by sections, As a potential carrot...Relief sought at trial will be the next section up for summarization. I didn't include the patients as that was a given.
Dr. Boyd is a prof a UVic and she co- authored "Killer Weed : MJ. Grow ops,media and justice" and she studies drug law and policy ( awesome that Conroy found theses people) she questions and criticizes the link between grow ops and violence, fire from indoor growing. Says that PPL and DPL sites can work with guidelines, education and monitoring, but HC fucked up. ( my summary...my words lol) says the media is partly to blame for creating a link between fire, mold, property damage that is unsupported by stats.
Corporal Holmquist RCMP, BC MMPR coordinator involved in approving LP's. He has seen monster plants well beyond what licences allowed...but did not get destroyed. Says licences are used to disguise commercial scale grow ops. His opinion is,that people sell extra mj because of the high cost of electricity, and selling often involves organized crime. He doesn't like the 30 day supply either. Grow ops are 24 more times likely to have fire and because of the controlled nature people die cause they can't get out. He's seen mold, chemical from extractions. He's seen injuries on people from burning themselves on lights or slipping on excess water. Grow rips are becoming increasing popular and are violent and involve weapons. Medibles left laying around can easily be ingested by the children living in the house. LPs on the other hand have strict growing, security and packaging that make him feel better.
Dr. Grootendorst is an AP at the U of T focusing on health economics (now theres a buzz word eh?) He provided expert report with respect to projected marketplace trends under the mmpr and the impacts on lps if med mari users aren't required to purchase from LPs or HC. He figures the price will drop over time as long as the number of patients accessing the system grows sufficiently.( what about the exponential growth that was a problem with mmar?) if patients are exempted then the size of the market will be smaller (duh) so therefor prices will decline slower,prices will increase over time, and eventually no lps will exist to produce med mari (YEAH!!) No opinion as to likelihood.
Jeanne Ritchot former Dir. of Med Mari Regulatory Reform at HC., former Dir of Bureau of Medical Cannabis, office of controlled subs. and tobacco directorate, oversaw admin of mmar and developed mmpr policy. she says the goal of mmar was to strike a balance between providing legal access to mj while controlling access to controlled substance respecting the cdsa. and to protect the public health and security. the rapid expansion has compromised the goals.says law enforcement wanted the end to ppl and dpl. the new program is so that mj can be treated like other drugs.
Todd Cain is the Exec. Dir. of Market Development and Customer Safety Branch of HC. He's facilitating the transiton between programs and resolving issues regarding developmet of stable supply base for med mari by lps. This guy is responsible for the call centre. 25 new applications a week. LPs pricing is $5- $12 /g with discounts as low as $3, and they have a stockpile to meet demand march 31.Reasonable access is assured.
So those are the players. It really is quite fascinating. If there is interest, I will continue to summarize the decision by sections, As a potential carrot...Relief sought at trial will be the next section up for summarization. I didn't include the patients as that was a given.
