DEA, U.N. Strong-Arm Canada On Legal Med Pot Program

DEA, U.N. Strong-Arm Canada On Legal Med Pot Program


​​It would be reasonable to assume that Canada is in charge of its own medical marijuana program -- wouldn't it?


Apparently not. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the United Nations are offering unsolicited "advice" and "expressions of concern" to our neighbors to the north due to Canada's 5,000 legal medical marijuana patients.


Thanks to prominent Canadian cannabis activist and writer Matt Mernagh for this excellent guest post, and for being on top of the story.

Guest Post by Matt Mernagh

With DEA offices throughout Canada, it's not surprising that U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reps weaseled their way into meetings with Health Canada, the government agency responsible for overseeing Canada's national legal medicinal marijuana program.


America's DEA has "expressed concern" to Health Canada regarding 5,000 Canadians legally possessing marijuana to treat a variety of ailments, the majority of whom have also been given permission to grow cannabis.


Crazily, the DEA is "worried" these Canadians are illicitly supplying an underground market.


Whom, exactly, is being illicitly supplied is not known. But these Canadians are supposedly doing so under the disguise of legal medical marijuana grows.


What have the DEA been smoking?


Photo: Matt MernaghHere's to you, DEA.​It's not known when the DEA opinion was given. Most likely it was some time before President Obama's infamous medicinal marijuana memo to the DEA. Therefore the opinion provided by DEA to Canada could be out of date.


However, on May 27, 2009, Health Canada amended Marihuana Medical Access Regulations disclosing they were "cooperating with domestic and international agencies."


Health Canada's revelation went unnoticed as it was done using a government sleight of hand -- a trick they've often used when amending their medicinal marijuana program.


Photo: Matt Mernagh​It reveals that Canada ratted itself out to international hard line prohibitionists with intentions on making changes to their legal medicinal marijuana program based on their suggestions. Canada could claim to the Canadian people and courts they had to make the changes to "appease foreign demands."


Health Canada revealed, "It is expected that the International Narcotics Control Board and United States law enforcement and regulatory counterparts will be supportive of the amendments because they serve to limit the amount of marihuana for medical purposes a designated person can produce at one time."


Health Canada has never consulted with doctors or 5000 patients who rely on the program. They haven't held seminars for doctors. They haven't sent a rep, like pharmaceutical companies do, to family doctors discussing benefits of prescribing medicinal marijuana. No free samples were given out for patients to try, like with Big Pharma.


Yet, when a doctor prescribes outside what Health Canada believes to be a fair amount, five grams daily, a form letter is sent "expressing concern" to the doctor.


Photo: Matt Mernagh​Doctors can prescribe up to 10 grams, but the agency has been told by prohibitionists that this is "too much." Not for health reasons, mind you, but to uphold laws.


Health Canada has consulted with U.S law enforcement (DEA), International Narcotics Control Board (UN), Public Safety Canada (responsible for controlling terrorism), Department of Justice (prosecuting potheads), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (prohibitionist soldiers), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (reps to UN), Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and even reps from the Ontario Fire Marshal.


A few weeks ago Canada's Conservative minority government received the response they wanted to help them fight the medical marijuana program without appearing to be bashing sick people: UN Watchdog Takes Aim At Canada's Medical Marijuana Program.


After being informed that 5,000 Canadians receive legal med pot, the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board determined this was a violation of a 1961 narcotics treaty. (Canada's parliament never ratified the treaty.)


Based on that UN finding, the Conservative government has responded that they will "reassess" Health Canada's med pot program.

the long hairy arm of the DEA knows no bounds...

Its sad that the United States can dictate what other countries citizens can, and can not do on their own soil, and their government just sits there like little puppets.. Its pathetic! Canada should get some nut and stand up, and be like "Get The F*** Out Of My Country DEA, This Is Our Country, And Our Citizens We Makes The Laws." But sadly enough no country has enough courage to stand up they all seem to be puppets to the US.

Only question I have is How does Holland get around the US though, Its where everyone goes to smoke the best bud.

As a canadian this fuckin makes me mad. I cant believe the U.S has the power to go to our government and say well this is okay but this is not. But the real problem is the canadian government they should stand up for them selves and tell the fuckin D.E.A pricks to back off and stay out of what dose not concern them. All in all tho compared to the U.S our marijuana laws are much more lax and i dont think that a few pricks from the D.E.A are gonna stirr things up much more than they already have.

Holland gets around this because they are not in relative terms close to the US as Canada or Mexico

Really this makes me laugh.

To Killer Bud to tell DEA to fuck would be a waist of time and effort , if they think getting involved with Canada's Medical Patients will have any effect on the market they are crazy.
There is plenty of Marijuana to go round. My city hasn't been dry since I was a 14 year old kid.
If anything the American's should be pissed that they are using American tax dollars to enforce Canada's "laws"

We have Marijuana like Peru and Columbia has Cocaine.

I must say though Harper has no backbone what so ever, he falls in line like a little bitch, along with a few others.
The United States though does do this all over the world... Dictating like they know what is right...

How many patients does U.S.A have?
Either way like I said this won't have very much effect on thing, Canada is very lax when it comes to Marijuana.
They don't so much like cultivators but I've read of raids and suspects getting released next day, 6 house completely filled to the nuts and they are released the next day...
Or a few weeks a ago buddy got burnt with 90lbs at his place Thursday night, back home Friday afternoon.

A few other as well most of which served no time.

Tagh said:

How many patients does U.S.A have?

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Were not looking at this the right way.... Canada's population is not even half of Americas. There should be a percentage of how many patients in each country compared to the rest of the population example... 2.3 % in Canada and maybe 3.7 in America. ( just guessing ) this would be a much better way for a country to compare and adjust the number of licenses given out every year.

But hey, what do i know ?

April weed said:

Were not looking at this the right way.... Canada's population is not even half of Americas. There should be a percentage of how many patients in each country compared to the rest of the population example... 2.3 % in Canada and maybe 3.7 in America. ( just guessing ) this would be a much better way for a country to compare and adjust the number of licenses given out every year.

But hey, what do i know ?

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Well of course but I would need to know the total number of patients 1st...

In 2008 it was 577,712... out of 307,006,550 July 2009.

.0019%

Canada

5000(This Article) /33,311,400 (2008 )

.00015%

Also my total in 2008 for American Medical Marijuana Users didn't include 2 states, Michigan and New Jersey.

Plus I included all the states when only 14 are Medical.
Besides that is not that point I was getting at, but it does back up the fact that the DEA are a bunch of dumb asses waisting American tax payers dollars.

Jese christ the DEA or dick eating asses have too much power to try and punk another country into doing what they believe is right, thoes goof balls need to get thier heads out of thier asses and stop wasting my tax dallors.

The way I see it every person who chooses should be allowed to have as many unbudded plants as they desire, however budding or budded plants cannot occupy more than 9 square feet per licensed grower. This licence comes with a government inspection or appointed agency to be sure that the site is secure and there is no obvious hazards. This licence shouldn't cost any more than an electrical inspection for a common household and any person who chooses, of age of course should be allowed to get one. In my opinion, this would be a more logical way to aleviate the problems related to marijuana drug trafficking.

I cant believe they have the fucking nerve to come into our country and tell us what to do. The DEA probably just saw trailer park boys for the first time and were like "Oh fuck we gotta do something about those canadians" lol