WAITING TO INHALE Screening in Calgary!

[KanMan]

WAITING TO INHALE Screening in Calgary!
Monday, February 13, 2006, 7:00 PM

Engineered Air Theatre
Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts

http://www.waitingtoinhale.org/
http://www.jedriffefilms.com/waiting.htm

Waiting to Inhale takes the viewer from underground pot clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court, from Israeli science labs to government approved marijuana gardens outside London. It features leading experts and researchers from all over the world on both sides of the controversy over the therapeutic potential of marijuana. In the U.S., ten states have passed laws with medical marijuana provisions. Yet use, cultivation and possession - for any reason - remain illegal under federal law. In the film we see the ensuing battles while exploring deeper issues of medical ideologies. Waiting to Inhale is not a propaganda film for either side of this international conflict, instead focusing on passionate individuals enmeshed in a struggle whose stakes are nothing short of life and death.
Mark Ware (Canadian participant in this film)
Born in England, Dr. Mark Ware was raised in Jamaica and began his career in medicine there treating patients with sickle cell anemia, gradually becoming convinced that smoked cannabis provided effective relief for chronic pain. His interest in medical cannabis formed the basis of his study of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and he relocated to Canada after receiving his medical degree in order to work with the growing community of scientists and physicians there who studied the potentially therapeutic effects of marijuana. Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at McGill University, and a practicing physician at the MUHC Pain Centre. He recently was a Principal Investigator to the Community Research Initiative of Toronto, helping to design a program of research on the medical effectiveness of smoked cannabis for AIDS patients. He is the Scientific Director of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids (CCIC), and a member of both the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the Canadian Pain Society.

[Fëanor]

Excellent. I want to buy a copy to watch at home, but is it a VHS or a DVD? I want to know before I send the check...I didn't see it say that anywhere.

[tjf2000]

nice thnx for sharin...+rep

[KanMan]

Originally Posted by Fëanor

Excellent. I want to buy a copy to watch at home, but is it a VHS or a DVD? I want to know before I send the check...I didn't see it say that anywhere.

Check the web site you can buy it from there.

[KanMan]

Sadly my crappy little Sony digital video camera stopped working right when the discussion panel started up.

At least my wife was able to get some HQ pictures of the discussion panel.
There was a good crowd that asked a lot of interesting questions.
Grant, his lawyer and myself answered the majority of them.
Two others on the panel were pretty quite.

The best part for me was when Grants retired lawyer (Grants calls him a pit bull) came up to me and introduced himself and shook my hand. Then he said you did real well on the discussion panel i was impressed with how you handled yourself. Then he goes to say not to worry it may look small now but in time we will win the fight. This man has been around the Canadian court system his whole life he knows full well what he is talking about.

After the film and discussion panel finished up we hung around and talked to the crowd and i even handed out over 50 TY magazines and lot of business cards.
Then Grant myself and my wife and a friend stopped for a drink and some good conversation. The perfect end to the evening.

A few pictures of the discussion panel...(me in the black suit and tie, Grant Krieger on my left and Grant's lawyer on my right)









Keith

Good Kannabis Growing!

[KanMan]

Movies That Matter (Calgary Epcor centre) offered me a private screening of Waiting To Inhale for a group of people of my choice. I told them if i get enough people to attend i will set up a private screening with them.

Interested? PM me.

Keith