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Project for distributing
medical marihuana failed.
By our parliamentary redaction.
The Hague, Friday, March 18. - Health Minister Hoogervorst will most likely stop
the distribution of softdrugs for medical use.
Yesterday, during a debate in the Second Chamber, he stated that doctors hardly
prescribe mediweed because of their lack of confidence in the drug. The cannabis
is supposed to relieve the pain of patients suffering from cancer, for instance.
On top of that, the medical grade cannabis that is being produced under the
supervision of the department has nasty side effects, like psychosis.
An other reason to stop the project is the competition by coffeeshops, which
offer cannabis cheaper. Hoogervorst will take a definite decision on the topic
after the summer.
“But it does not look positive.”
The VVD Minister swept the floor with Mayor Leers’ (Maastricht) plan to legalise
production and distribution of softdrugs. Legalisation, according to the
Minister, would lead to an increased price for safe weed, thus creating a huge
market for low quality softdrugs. Leers, the CDA Mayor however, feels the
standard of life in the Limburg region is under severe stress because of the
trading in softdrugs.
Translation: Sinsemilla Guerrilla
Source: De Telegraaf.
Pub Date: March 18, 2005.
Comment:
What a loser, this Minister Hoogervorst!
He claims the ‘safe’ government weed causes psychosis, doctors do not believe in
its healing effects and mentions coffeeshops as “competition”!
Listen, Minister Hoogervorst, if you would hire people to produce good quality
bud, and offer it to sick people on welfare with full refund, like any other
acknowledged medicine, You would have thousands of happy patients!!
Instead, you made sure the government licensed growers had to invest huge sums
of money to be able to grow low grade weed in laboratory style growrooms. These
investments have a big influence on the consumers price in the pharmacy, which
is 8 -9 euros a gram over the legal counter. Coffeeshops sell marihuana for
lower prices than that, and most coffeeshops give ‘their patients’ a 25 – 50 %
discount, knowing these sick people don’t get refund for their appreciated
medicine. Coffeeshops are no competition as such, they merely want to supply
poor, sick people with quality mediweed for a fair price, not for government
regulated profit margins!!
Just do as I suggest, and you will no longer have any ‘competition’ from the
coffeeshops!
Coffeeshops are just doing what the government should be doing, taking care of
the sick and needy. Shame on you, Minister, just give the sick good bud and a
full refund, so I can send my 130 patients to the nearest pharmacy.
This is a good example of Dutch politics, quitting without trying an alternative.
Sinsemilla Guerrilla
Co-Founder of Actiongroup Cannabis for Medicine. (ACM)
Mediweed distributor since 1996.
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