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Another medicinal marijuana crusader has taken a potshot at the government weed being grown in an abandoned Flin Flon mine shaft. Grant Krieger of Calgary told the Winnipeg Free Press last week that sick people who use marijuana should not have to rely on the Flin Flon product. "They (the government) want to give us what they grow in the mine shaft in Flin Flon," he said. "The stuff is mulch." This isn't the first time medicinal marijuana proponents have blasted the Flin Flon pot as being inferior. "It made me nauseous because I had to use so much of it. It was so weak in potency that I really threw up," Barrie Dalley, an AIDS patient in Toronto, told the media in September. Similarly, AIDS patient Jim Wakeford of Gibsons, B.C. called the weed "totally unsuitable for human consumption." Last July, Health Canada adopted an interim policy mandating the government to sell marijuana and marijuana seeds to authorized patients. All seeds and plants are supplied by Prairie Plant Systems, the Saskatoon-based company under federal contract to produce medicinal marijuana at the Trout Lake Mine. The medicinal marijuana grow operation at Trout Lake was officially launched in August of 2001, putting Flin Flon in the international media spotlight.
