Dear Minister of Justice,

With your calendar suddenly cleared, I’d like to invite you to attend my pre-trial judicial review on Jan. 19, 2010, at the St. Catharines courthouse 4 p.m.
According to Google Maps it’s only 30 minutes from your office
You will learn a great deal about marijuana growing.
On May 1, 2008 I was charged with growing medicinal marijuana for my own consumption. Production of a Substance 7(2)(B) CDSA.
There’s a reason my case is moving slowly before the courts.
For the past two years my legal counsel has deftly created a constitutional challenge arguing I have a right to grow marijuana for medicinal reasons.
As your aware, it’s nearly impossible for terminally and chronically ill Canadians to access Health Canada medicinal marijuana program.
Now that I have stopped growing my medicine I’ve suffered a serious near death seizure.

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Spending 11 days in hospital.
Shattering my left shoulder.
Arriving at the hospital unable to talk and slowly slipping into a coma.
It took six months to recover through extensive physiotherapy.
During pre-trial the federal government, after claiming they were shielded from handing over relevant documents because of rape victim laws, were forced, via a judge’s ruling, to disclose a mountain of evidence.
Much of it outlining Health Canada’s medicinal marijuana program shortcomings. The federal government is shielding itself from providing an exemplary Made in Canada program by holding doctor’s accountable to a program they have no input in.
Opportunity to access the program varies dramatically not from province to province, but region to region. People living in rural communities such as the Niagara Region have dramatically less access than people living in urban centers.
The number of doctors participating in the medicinal marijuana program in Ontario is less than 10 per cent.

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Health Canada didn’t receive input from Canadians or their doctors’, but according to their reports, US law enforcement (DEA) needs have been taken into account.
Your government is putting the needs of chronically and terminally ill Canadians second to those expressed by The White House. A position that possibly has changed with President Obama’s administration.
Has anyone asked?
While your government has failed to provide for the needs of Canadians who desire to use cannabis as a treatment option, the court’s have.
In fact Health Canada has taken into account a constitutional challenge such as mine every time they make adjustments to the MMAD regulations.
The fed’s point out it’s cost prohibitive for someone paying for their own legal defense to challenge them. However, what they didn’t take into account is someone like me using another body of government (Ontario Legal Aid) to fund their defense.
See you Jan. 19. St. Catharines Courthouse. 4 p.m