Apr
29
Patients Persecuted — In the Medical Marijuana Grey Area

Nothing is more infuriating to me right now than waiting for the new government to decide what will be allowed and what will be in the medical marijuana grey area since the Allard win. What will be considered okay after Health Canada incorporates personal growing into the Licensed Producer system designed into the MMPR?

The Candy

I recently fell victim to this unjust law again when one of my friends/patients left my house after spending the afternoon. We exchanged methods on how to make the tincture that was then incorporated into hard candy. He had brought all his own product with him and when he left my house he also took what we had made together.  A few hours later he came flying back into my house, stating he had been pulled over by the RCMP and had been held for several hours. He told me they had ripped his vehicle apart and all they wanted to know about was where, how, and who had made that candy. Was I was under investigation … for candy?!

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Jul
03
Debbie Stultz-Giffen: MUMM, Marc, and More

Before incorporating, MUMM unofficially began activism together in February 2003: in response to a Senate Committee report released  in September 2002, a public Demand for Dignity forum was held. Patients either self-represented or had someone speak for them about their personal situations — their own quests for dignity in a screwed-up system. One patient was an Exemption holder who would have been one of the first incarcerated and denied access to his medication. The key note speaker was Senate Speaker Pierre Claude Nolin. It was a highly-charged, emotional time; patients had rights but still struggled for access to readily available, quality medication. A struggle that, over a decade later, patients still face.

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Jun
30
Why Market Just ‘Medical’ Marijuana?

By now I’m sure nearly everyone in any civilized country has heard of legalized medical marijuana. It became legal here in Canada in 2001: a holder of an Exemption 56 from the federal government was exempt from criminal prosecution pertaining to the possession, use and cultivation of marijuana (but not purchase) for personal use as laid out in Section 56 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

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May
23
The Canadian Concentrate Open

Back in February of this year a group of activists decide to raise some money: for the MMAR Constitutional legal challenge — to fight for patients to retain the right to grow their own cannabis — and to help fund the Owen Smith Supreme Court Extract Trial defence. These two trails have been crowd-funded for the most part, with over $150,000.00 raised so far.

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May
15
Debbie Stultz-Giffen — From Mom to MUMM

I first met Debbie Stultz-Giffin on the internet back in 2008. I was as amazed then as I am now how she does as much as she does and how effective she is. At the 2013 Treating Yourself Expo we met in person and I was honoured to spend many days with her. I have so much admiration and love for her and consider her one of my closest, dearest friends. She is truly one of the kindest hearts I have ever known: Deb is a wife, mother, and grandmother; she volunteers in her community with a local women’s group; and she’s a past Beaver Scout leader. Her drive and her lust for life are always an inspiration to me.

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May
02
Barefoot, no longer Pregnant, and Imprisoned

Ten weeks to the day that I met with a qualified doctor I had my pink papers in my hand and I thought I was invincible. But the law had other ideas.

Sending off packages of my home grown cannabis to friends and patients on a regular basis—I had my garden growing long before my papers were in my hand—I treated it like the plant it is. Until weeks later when I went to my local post office to pick up a package on April 15th, 2011 and was arrested for trafficking…of four grams of cannabis. Yes, four grams. Thankfully although many other packages went out that day only one was caught in the mail.

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Apr
29
Medicated Mom: My MMAR

Living in small-town Alberta, it wasn’t easy to find a doctor to sign me on to the MMAR program. However, I was friends with Michelle Rainey. Michelle had already been diagnosed with cancer and was fighting her own battle but was still helping as many people as she could. I too was sending out medical forms for others and helping patients with paper work but at that time we had limited resources.

In 2009 I’d had tests but was still waiting for a doctor. I continued doing what I could for advocacy. At the Global Marijuana March that year I wasn’t feeling very well. Shortly thereafter I found out I was pregnant with my fourth child.

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