This is a satire, but the numbers are true, based on five grams per patient per day.
This past weekend, medical marijuana card holders held meetings in all three Maritime provinces. Over 1,000 card holders attended. It was the general consensus at all three meetings that we had four choices: live with the pain, turn to opiates, commit suicide or fight, so we’re fighting.
During the meeting, we discovered quite a few patients had small grow rooms at home and a lot of patients had vast knowledge on large grow rooms. We also found that most patients could not afford the $25,000 the government charged for their medicine. Living in the Atlantic provinces, we found a lot of patients did not even earn $25,000.
There was a show of hands for who wanted marijuana for the high – no hands went up. Next question, who wanted marijuana so they could sleep eat, walk, get out of bed, control their pain, go back to work? This elicited a 100 per cent show of hands.
It was decided we would have six grow-ops in each county of the Atlantic provinces. There are eight harvests a year in a grow-op and professionals have told us that each grow-op could easily produce 400 lbs. a year. We would end up with 3,200 lbs. in each county and this would supply 720 their medicine at a cost of $250 a year per person. We would also offer a one-month supply of medicine to those on opiates or other pain medications to try as an alternative.
At our next meeting, we will have two retired RCMP drug enforcement officers speak to us about getting busted, the ins and outs. We will also have a human rights lawyer explain the rights of sick, Canadian citizens. We will have two experts from British Columbia coming to build our prototype and give us advice.
Total for medicine for 720 people, our price, is $180,000 (69 cents per patient per day; government price $1,800,000 ($69 per patient per day) – again the government making money from the sick.
Have a pain-free day, see you at the next meeting.
Sterling MacDonald
RR1 Trenton