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An editorial in yesterday's Ottawa Citizen heaps criticism on the federal government for refusing to expand its medicinal marijuana operations beyond Flin Flon. "Right now, the health ministry will let an eligible sick person grow marijuana," reads the anonymous piece, "and it will let that person designate someone else to grow marijuana on his or her behalf, but it won't let more than one user designate the same other person to do the growing. "That means the only legal multiple-client grower is the government's single source in Flin Flon, whose product many users dismiss as ditchweed." The author makes reference to Carasel Harvest Supply Corp., an Ontario medicinal marijuana outfit that was raided by police last week because it did not have a license to operate. Health Canada's refusal to grant that license is now being challenged in the courts as an "unconstitutional barrier" to medicinal marijuana users. "Canadians shouldn't have to wait for Carasel's case to wend its way through the court system before the federal government comes up with a marijuana policy that's both constitutional and coherent," concludes the editorial.10/8/04
