By: Paul Clarke Staff Reporter, Published on Sun Apr 20 2014 Happy 420, but don't smoke the purple kush. A British Columbian medical marijuana supplier is voluntarily recalling one of its batches after a Health Canada inspection found “issues with the company's production practices.†In what is likely a first in the Canadian medical marijuana industry, Greenleaf Medicinals is instructing clients to immediately stop using a batch of Purple Kush brand marijuana labelled “PK-10-20-13.†“It's not a danger to those people using the product, but they are being asked to discontinue use,†said Erika-Kirsten Easton, a spokesperson for Health Canada. She did not have details as to what “production practices†Health Canada had issues with. According to Health Canada, the company is working with other licensed producers to find another supply of marijuana for those who are impacted by the recall. Ironically, the recall comes on the same day as thousands of people are expected to light up across Canada to show their support for the decriminalization of marijuana. In Toronto thousands of people are expected to descend on Yonge-Dundas square starting at noon. In the nation's capital thousands of people are expected to gather on Parliament Hill for a similar event called “Fill the Hill.†Despite the growing use of medicinal marijuana it is not an approved drug in Canada and possession and use of the drug remains illegal unless prescribed by a doctor. . Let us grow our own! http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2014/04/20/health_canada_medical_marijuana_recalled.html
I've been thinking about this today, and I think this is a good thing. Medical marijuana is medicine, and I like to see it being treated as such. I worry a lot about things like contamination and a lack of standards, and since most of us can't grow and test our own, it's nice that at least my neighbors to the North have the beginnings of someone looking out for that.
I completely agree but Health Canada isn't exactly doing a great job. Canadians are having to fight hard to get them to do anything. 6 ways HC is screwing up. (April 14, 2014) http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/04/14/top-6-ways-health-canada-is-screwing-up-medical-marijuana/
Oh, I don't think all is well, but I do like this one thing, that there can be such a thing as a recall.
Sounds like a false flag to me. Health Canada and these Corporations are working together to "show" Canadians that Marijuana is "dangerous" without corporations and the government to monitor it. It's all bullshit. The government is currently scrambling and ramping up anti MJ rhetoric in order to aid their fight against personal grow for their corporate/Pharma buddies. This way the company shows they are here for the medical users and their benefit while the government shows us we really need them to be our Nanny. Without details and proof of what is wrong with the product it is all lies. Too many government and corporate hands in a pie that they have no place in. To the bolded part of the quote above. Why is it not a danger to those using the product yet are being asked to discontinue use. If it's not a danger then why discontinue?
So you would be willing to trust a government with marijuana? The same governments that have demonized the plant for far too long. Keep on knitting Mama, This is not a good thing it is all about the government trying to "SAVE" us from ourselves (while making themselves and their friends rich). In other news a former Canadian Health Minister, a former cheif of police and a pharmacist buddy of theirs want to start their own company. 2 people that made their lives and a good portion of their incomes on keeping weed illegal sounds contradictory to me.
Well I speak for most people when I say, "No, we do not trust our government." (Ducks) I feel there is not enough 'info' on this topic to make a final decision. As a Canadian we are left in the dark, hard to know what to believe know-a-days. But it seems good that HC(health Canada) is monitoring these things, Colorado has set an amazing example as to not only medical, but recreational as well. I feel Canada could potentially 'one up' them in the near future. Who knows what actually goes on at dispensaries, they deserve to be monitored just like some of the food industries here.(yea some.)
My whole thing is that Health Canada and the government should have no place in whether medical users grow their own or not. The best Q.A. is a grower themselves. Why should people be forced to go to these shadow corps to buy their medicine at inflated prices that they could have at a small fraction of the price? The writing is on the wall when/if recreational is legal the new Big Tobacco in Canada will be these companies they are being set up to be the real powerplayers. I prefer freedom of choice and my own supply when it is at the end of the day a plant you can grow yourself. A few people are going to make alot of money on medicinal and recreational legalization and the government will heap taxes on it. Price won't go down. And until recreational is legal all the money will be made off the backs of those who truly do need access to cheap medicine they rely on. Choose your strain(s) and grow yourself is how it should be, just like tomato's. Except that MJ has many more uses.