More Medical Marijuana Melodrama
The melodrama continues over the use of and difficulty in obtaining a license for the Canadian drug medical marijuana. West Kelowna man Dave Napora was born with a genetic disease that causes extreme depression and pain and is continually degenerative in nature, but says that while he has been given a prescription for the Canadian drug by his doctors, he has been waiting eight months for Health Canada to issue him a license – and is still waiting, despite being told initially that the license would take only up to two months to be issued.
Napora believes that Health Canada may be deliberately delaying his license because the prescription issued by his doctors recommends a daily dosage several times that of the government’s guidelines for use of the Canada drug. Napora says he thinks the incredible difficulty in gaining a license for use of the Canada drug is ironic given the ease with which one can gain access to morphine, which is in fact a considerably more powerful and more addictive drug than medical marijuana.
Napora is only the latest in a long line of people complaining about delays in Health Canada’s processing time for medical marijuana licenses, about the unjust prosecution of people who have been using and producing the drug for health reasons only to be arrested because their licenses still haven’t arrived, and about the archaic nature of the country’s marijuana laws in general, yet still the delays and the arrests continue.
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