CANADA: CANADA BECOME FIRST COUNTRY TO SELL MARIJUANA TO SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS TO HELP REDUCE SYMPTOMS

Record ID: 958427

  • Title: CANADA: CANADA BECOME FIRST COUNTRY TO SELL MARIJUANA TO SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS TO HELP REDUCE SYMPTOMS
  • Date: 11th July 2003
  • Summary: (W1) OTTAWA, CANADA (RECENT) (CTV - NO ACCESS CANADA/NBC/INTERNET) 1. VARIOUS OF STEVE BACON SMOKING MARIJUANA (3 SHOTS) 0.09 2. WIDE OF MARIJUANA DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT BUILDING 0.14 3. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) STEVE BACON, MEDICAL MARIJUANA USER SAYING: "Smoke and mirrors, spin job." 0.16 4. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) MARC PAQUETTE, MEDICAL MARIJUANA USER SAYING: "It's a smokescreen, a big smokescreen, a big farce." 0.19 5. CLOSE-UP OF SIGN READING "TIME'S UP, GIVE ME MY POT" 0.33 5. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SMOKING MARIJUANA CIGARETTES ( 3 SHOTS) 0.33 (W1) EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA (RECENT) (CTV - NO ACCESS CANADA/NBC/INTERNET) 6. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) ANNE MCLELLAN, HEALTH MINISTER SAYING: "Keep in mind that it was never the intention of us to sell product." 0.38 7. VARIOUS OF MCLELLAN SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS 0.44 8. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) MCLELLAN SAYING: "There have been no studies anywhere in the world that have been able to confirm medicinal benefits." 0.50 (W1) FLIN FLON, MANITOBA, CANADA (FILE) (CTV - NO ACCESS CANADA/NBC/INTERNET) 9. VARIOUS OF MARIJUANA PLANTS BEING GROWN 1.09 (W1) OTTAWA, CANADA (RECENT) (CTV - NO ACCESS CANADA/NBC/INTERNET) 10. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) CINDY CRIPPS-RAWAK, HEALTH CANADA SAYING: "The marijuana could be shipped out within a week." 1.12 11. WIDE OF CRIPPS-RAWAK SPEAKING 1.15 12. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) CRIPPS-RAWAK SAYING: "This interim policy can be amended or suspended at any point." 1.19 13. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) SEN. PIERRE CLAUDE NOLIN, PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE - QUEBEC SAYING: "You can smell the bad faith of the government." 1.21 14. WIDE OF NOLIN SPEAKING TO REPORTERS 1.24 15. CLOSE-UP OF PHILIPPE LUCAS 1.27 16. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) PHILIPPE LUCAS, CANADIANS FOR SAFE ACCESS SAYING: "They're not doing this cause of their kindness or compassion. They're doing this cause of their incompetence, which forced a court order." 1.33 17. VARIOUS, ALISON MYRDEN, MEDICAL MARIJUANA USER, HOLDING AN IDENTITY CARD 1.40 18. PAN OF MYRDEN'S SUPPLY OF MARIJUANA 1.46 19. SCU SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) ALISON MYRDEN, MEDICAL MARIJUANA USER SAYING: "I can't foot out $450 (Canadian) so I don't know where they think I'm going to get it from." 1.51 (W1) FLIN FLON, MANITOBA, CANADA (FILE) (VNR) 20. VARIOUS OF MARIJUANA PLANTS BEING GROWN 2.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: OTTAWA, ONTARIO, EDMONTON, ALBERTA AND FLIN FLON, MANITOBA, CANADA
  • Country: Canada
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