I celebrate all that has been accomplished and encourage everyone to keep up this much needed drive. Hopefully the individual states will eventually come to some sort of agreement with the federal government so that easy access throughout the USA is attained. It is long overdue.

Although a high percentage of medical users in Canada still grow their own or purchase it directly from local growers or on the street, here’s how MMJ is set up to access it legally in Canada.

For those with MS and a number of other conditions (scroll down to check out the list: http://www.cannabisdispensary.ca/about/), all that is needed to get on the registry so that one can access it is to have a confirmation of the MS diagnosis, faxed from the office of the patient’s MD, Naturopath or Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor (TCM) to the dispensary.

Once registered, patients can pick it up in person from a number of dispensaries throughout the country or can access it by mail order with delivery to anywhere in Canada.

Here's the site of one of the dispensaries:
Welcome! | The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary
http://www.cannabisdispensary.ca/

There is a push to get production out of the hands of private growers into the hands of corporate interests…but that hasn’t happened and it isn’t likely to because the price of the product keeps dropping due to an over abundant supply from the licenced private growers, who in turn continue to sell it on the street.

Medical marijuana lets B.C. growers earn thousands on streets - British Columbia - CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...arijuana-.html

The bureaucrats have basically legislated it to such a degree for potential large commercial producers to set up operations that the profit margin would be too low to make it a viable investment for them .

With love, Erika