COURT STRIKES DOWN REG ON POT GROWERS=ABOOT TIME EH FOLKS!!

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COURT STRIKES DOWN REG. ON POT GROWERS=ABOOT TIME EH~~~!!!!VOTE NDP & LETS LEGALIZE WEED!!! strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana Last Updated: Friday, January 11, 2008 | 12:45 AM ET CBC News Canadians who are prescribed marijuana to treat their illnesses will no longer be forced to rely on the federal government as a supplier following a Federal Court ruling that struck down a key restriction in Ottawa’s controversial medical marijuana program. The decision by Judge Barry Strayer, released late Thursday, essentially grants medical marijuana users more freedom in picking their own grower and allows growers to supply the drug to more than one patient. It’s also another blow to the federal government, whose attempts to tightly control access to medical marijuana have prompted numerous court challenges. Currently, medical users can grow their own pot but growers can’t supply the drug to more than one user at a time. Lawyers for medical users argued that restriction effectively established Health Canada as the country’s sole legal provider of medical marijuana. They also said the restriction was unfair, and that it prevented seriously ill Canadians from obtaining the drug they needed to treat their debilitating illnesses. In his decision, Strayer called the provision unconstitutional and arbitrary, as it “caused individuals a major difficulty with access…” Ottawa must also reconsider requests made by a group of medical users who brought the matter to court to have a single outside supplier as their designated producer, Strayer said in his 23-page decision. While the government has argued that medical users who can’t grow their own marijuana can obtain it from its contract manufacturer, fewer than 20 per cent of patients actually use the government’s supply, Strayer wrote. “In my view it is not tenable for the government, consistently with the right established in other courts for qualified medical users to have reasonable access to marijuana, to force them either to buy from the government contractor, grow their own or be limited to the unnecessarily restrictive system of designated producers,” he wrote. Ron Marzel, a Toronto lawyer representing the group of medical users who brought the matter before the Federal Court, called the decision a “great remedy” for his clients. “All this means is that the limit — the one-to-one ratio — it’s the last nail in the coffin for that ratio,” he said in an interview. “The court has said, ‘Look, unequivocally, this is unconstitutional, it’s arbitrary. All the reasons you’ve provided us with so far for this one-to-one ratio, they don’t pass muster. We don’t buy it, we don’t accept it.”‘ The provision had been struck down by the courts before, but was reinstated by the government who contracted Prairie Plant Systems Inc. in Flin Flon, Man., to provide the drug to patients./As a PHA that has to use pot in order to eat- i face RED TAPE & beaurocratic BS. by Drs the refuse to help,politicians throw their hands in the air & do nothing!!! i think the CAS should mandate that 1)pot access for patients, & subsidizing $ spent on medical pot-or reimbursing us at tax time~~!!!Housing is another big issue that need attention.PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS!!!!

So,When are Local ASO’s Going to Start Hiring PHA’s?

As a PHA Speaker on HIV-AIDS i try to keep up-to-date on newest treatments & therapy’s that have been released,stats & figures on studies,of which there are so many!So Y not have 1 place set up to receive & disseminate all HIV info?categorized of course,it would make finding info easier,& Dr’s could also keep updated as well.<p>GI-PA Principles haven’t been mandated here in Canada,but it should be.More HIV+ persons should be hired on at ASO’s & should be run by PHAs altogether!!!Of course many working there now are good peoples but come on lets get off disability & be working peoples again!!!If our own local ASO’s wont hire PHA’s ,why should other places of business’s hire PHAs?Now most of the cash raised for aids is going to administration costs,while clients see ever decreasing services!They get more money & do less & less with it!Access Aids Sudbury needs to get more HIV+ persons involved in paying jobs,PHAs have been asking for this for a long time…as well as a van…to help clients get to Dr’s app.as many have diff walking…the volunteers need some revamping as allot have lost touch with this agency,or so it seems to  me,a client & the co creator of Sudburys HIV Support Group which meets every Wed afternoons at 1:30 – 3:30 at Access Aids sud-bury 111 elm st suite 203,parking at the rear of the building is available,so anyone that is HIV+ & is living in sud-bury algoma district or if your just visiting the area & your poz your more then welcome!!!peace n love folks-HIV+ WARRIORS CREATE YOUR OWN FRONT LINES OF ATTACK AGAINST HIV-AIDS by BLOGGING,WEB-CASTS,VLOGS,WEBSITES/PAGES,VIDEO’S,OR KEEP A DAILY DIARY ON WHAT LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IS LIKE ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS!!!BREAK THE SILENCE & BECOME A HIV-AIDS WARRIOR TODAY!!!TYPED ON THIS 9TH DAY OF JANUARY,2008.AT 2:30 AM AS I CANNOT SLEEP AS I AM WORRIED ABOUT MY Dr’s APPOINTMENT.i PRAY THAT god CAN GET ME UP ON TIME,IN JESUS NAME I PRAY TO JEHOVAH GOD!!! AMEN!!!PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS!!!PREPARE THE WAY,FOR HIS  TIME IS DRAWING NIGH…THE 2ND COMING OF THE LORD GOD & HIS SON JESUS CHRIST,BUT MANY TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE BEFORE THIS HAPPENS,AND ITS ALREADY STARTING TO HAPPEN AS FLOODS,TORNADO’S,SNOWSTORMS,WARM SPELLS,A WHOLE MIXED BAG OF NUTS THIS WEATHER IS OF LATE EH FOLKS???PEACE N LOVE MY FELLOW HIV-AIDS WARRIORS!!!KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT!!!AND ALWAYS KEEP FAITH & HOPE CLOSE TO YOUR HEART MY BRETHREN.READ YOUR HOLY BIBLES DAILY!!!FOLLOW GODS COMMANDMENTS & BELIEVE IN THE CHRIST-& YOU WILL HAVE GAINED ETERNAL LIFE-THEN U MUST PREACH TO OTHERS THE MIRACLES OF JESUS & PREPARE FOR HIS RETURN,FOR IT IS NIGHT AT HAND PEOPLES!!!ALL BIBLE SIGNS ARE SLOWLY COMING INTO PLACE…EACH ONE///EVERY ONE///TRUST IN JEHOVAH & HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD & SAVIOUR THAT GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OUR SINS…THAT WE MIGHT GAIN ETERNAL LIFE YET AGAIN,& TO LIVE WITH GODS LOVE IS TO LIVE IN HEAVEN !!!TO LIVE WITHOUT GODS LOVE IS HELL & THIS TORMENTS THEM ABOVE ALL ELSE,AS THEY LONG FOR GODS LOVE & FORGIVENESS,AND SO SATAN TRIES TO LURE AS MANY SOULS AS HE CAN-DRUGS-HARD CORE ROCK-IMPRESSIONABLE KIDS-BOTH PARENTS WORKING JOBS AND SO CANT QUITE KEEP UP WITH THEIR KIDS SCHOOLING OR EVENTS,LET ALONE WHAT KIND OF “FRIENDsARETHEY HANGIN WITH?

OBAMA WINS AGAIN-LOOKS LIKE HE WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT!!!

ONE WATCHED THE PRIMARYS & IT WAS THE SAME AGAIN,OBAMA IS LOOKING MORE & MORE LIKE HE IS GOING TO TAKE THIS ELECTION YEAR 2008 TO WIN THE US PRESIDENCY!!!i WAS KINDA HOPING HE WOULD WIN,WAS HOPING GOUR WOULD RUN REALLY.WE NEED TO MAKE MAJOR CHANGES OF LIVING ,STARTING WITH OUR ENGINES-WE NEED TO CHANGE ALL GAS POWERED ENGINES TO HYDROGEN POWERED ENGINES WHERE THE POLLUTION IS PURE WATER,AS THIS IS ANOTHER RESOURCE WE WILL NEED IN THE FUTURE,THIS MOVE TOWARDS HYDROGEN POWERED ENGINES MUST BE ENTERED INTO SOCIETY AS SOON AS HUMALY POSSABLE!!!wIND & SOLAR POWER SHOULD ALSO BE ENTERED INTO ALL NEW HOMES,WITH BACK -UP GENERATORS U MUST ,SO THAT IF POWER IS INTERUPTED,PEOPLES WILL STILL BE ABLE TO SURVIVE ALONG TIME!!!I THINK ALOT OF FOLKS CAN SENCE SSOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NOT TO DISTENT FUTURE,MAYBE I METEOR COMIN OUR WAY?not sure but somethings coming & its not going to a pretty if all the reading i have done is true,or even a minute part of it,whew!!!we are in for some exciting stuff gonna shake rattle & roll!!!PEACE N LOVE & W.W.J.D. EH FOLKS!!!

Wish i Had Farm & a Tour Bus!!!

This would enable all my family to move in together & help look after my mom.The Tour bus is for going across Canada doing HIV-AIDs Education & awareness talks with 12-25 other HIV+ persons of dif race & cultures,& we would all have cam-corders to tape our views on this journey.When we get to a city we would break into smaller teams & thereby attending more places=depending on how many were traveling along.if we were 12 we could break into teams of 3 & hit 4dif places in the morning & 4dif places in the afternoon!making 8 places where HIV-AIDs storys could be told at at each city each day.The crowd would be able to identify with at least 1 person up on stage,as they would be from all races!This is my dream,& am also thinking ofd starting a group called Positivly Speaking!Watch for it coming soon!!!well folks,thats all for tonight,i wish all my fellow HIV-AIDS WARRIORS PEACE,HAPPINESS & LOVE!!!WATCHED FREDDY MURCURY TONIGHT-GREAT SHOWMAN-GENIOUS REALLY-PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS!!!

So ya today is +5 in JANUARY, & in SUDBURY!!!!OBAMA WINS AGAIN!

CRAZY WEATHER WE ARE HAVING AND WHO WOULDA THOUGHT IT WOULD BE PLUS FIVE IN JANUARY?IT WAS ANOUNCED THAT THE US IS IN A RECESSION,& IT WOULD NOT EFFECT CANADA MUCH…WELL I KNOW OUR ECONOMYS ARE TIED SO CLOSE THAT IF THEY HURT WE HURT!i KNEW WE WERE IN ONE ,& OTHERS KNOW IT AS WELL.tHE IS A PERVADING FEAR THAT SOMETHING IS COMMING ….& ITS EITHER GOOD OR BAD DEPENDS ON HOW U LOOK AT THE RETURN OF CHRIST!!!I AM VERY SPIRITUAL & HAVE FAITH & HOPE IN JEHOVA GOD &HISON JESUS CHRIST,THAT GODS WILL BE DONE & NOT OUR OWN.I KNOW HE LOVES US ALL & ONLY WANTS WHATS GOOD FOR US …THE OTHER DOES NOT & WANTS THE OPPOSITE,TO SEE THE FALL OF MAN.SATAN PLANS & PLANS,SCHEMEING & SCAMMING !!!TURNING EVERYTHING INTO SHIT & CAUSEING AS MUCH OF IT AS HE CAN!CAUSE HE KNOWS HE HAS BUT A SHORT WHILE!!!peace n love not wars n walls folks!~ & yes OBAMA IS ELECTED PRES!!!

just for today,I thank GOD for all he has given me!

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!MY TRUST & FAITH IS IN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD & SAVIOUR!~& IN JEHOVA GOD HIS FATHER!I PRAY THAT GOD’S WILL BE DONE & NOT MAN’S!!!PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS!!!

Practice safe sex,the life you save could be your own!

Just for Today,Birthday was just Another day-45 yrs now

So ya today was my 45 b-day-& it went uncelebrated.A friend baked me a cke but i forgot it at his place along with my keys!So then i had to call emergency housing to come & let me in,i am hoping my friend finds my keys tomorrow for me.MOM musta forgot it was my birthday,& i must remember to get a calling card.I feel shy alot & this stops me from aproaching woman many times over.Then theres the fact that i am HIV+,this holds me back more then anything.Its Y i never flirt or hit on woman.& its Y i will be single for a long time to come,but thats ok fornow,i am learning about ,myself.Well i guess thats a;ll for now folks,HIV+ warriors break your silence & blog,webcasts ect…create your own front line of attack on HIV-AIDS today!!!PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS!!!!

AIDS PATIENTS LIVING LONGER-FACING DOWNSIDE!~BY JAMIE GROSS-REPOSTED BY JAMES JC GOUGH

Aging AIDS patients facing downside of living longer
With longevity have come unexpected medical conditions
By Jane Gross
New York Times News Service
Published: January 6, 2008
CHICAGO — John Holloway received a diagnosis of AIDS nearly two decades ago, when the disease was a speedy-death sentence and treatment a distant dream.
Yet at 59 he is alive, thanks to a cocktail of drugs that changed the course of an epidemic. But with longevity has come a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of AIDS as a manageable, chronic disease.

Holloway, who lives in a housing complex designed for the frail elderly, suffers from complex health problems usually associated with advanced age: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, kidney failure, a bleeding ulcer, severe depression, rectal cancer and the lingering effects of a broken hip.

Those illnesses are not what Holloway expected when lifesaving antiretroviral drugs became the standard of care in the mid-1990s.

The drugs gave Holloway back his future. But at what cost?

That is the question, heretical to some, that is now being voiced by scientists, doctors and patients encountering a constellation of ailments showing up prematurely or in disproportionate numbers among the first wave of AIDS survivors to reach late middle age.

Experts are coming to believe that the immune system and organs of long-term survivors took an irreversible beating before the advent of lifesaving drugs and that those very drugs then produced additional complications because of their toxicity — a one-two punch.

The graying of the AIDS epidemic has increased interest in the connection between AIDS and cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis and depression. The number of people 50 and older living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has increased 77 percent from 2001 to 2005, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and they now represent more than a quarter of all cases in the United States.

Larry Kramer, the founder of several AIDS advocacy groups and a long-term survivor, said he had always suspected “it was only a matter of time before stuff like this happened,” given the potency of the antiretroviral drugs.

“How long will the human body be able to tolerate that constant bombardment?” he asked. “We are now seeing that many bodies can’t. Once again, just as we thought we were out of the woods, sort of, we have good reason again to be really scared.”

© 2008 Deseret News Publishing Company | All rights reserved

HIV SUPPORT Group SUDBURY-donations accepted eh folks!~!

So ya today was alot warmer outside with the temp going up to -4,& will be above 0 all the way up to 7,or so the weather dude says.Now thats ok if your in fall or spring-but in January?Canada is supposed to be frozen solid for months!!!Guess this global warming has some benefits,although i am sure they are far outweighed by all the negative stuff thats going to happen.Seems this planet is going to change poles,near 2012 ,or so i hear,as well as world ending on dec 21,2012!Well if it is,that means Jesus is comin back-& i have a feeling it will be far different this time,& he wont be so mild & meek!!!Hell is a place with-out the love of GOD,& our bodies are our temples and this is Y we should bless what we eat or drink,so it becomes holy,& is fit to consume.We shouldnt pollute our bodies with drugs.booze,or any other intoxicating stuff,as it draws us away from GOD.Not sure where i learnt this…end times we are living in are here & now…GODs will be done & not our own!!!I am hoping its not as bad as i have read,& that if i have to die,i pray it be saving someone’s life,giving my own that others might live.My dream seems so far from reality its not funny,wish it could happen though as i think it could help alot of others -going across Canada with 25 HIV+ persons & when we arrive at a city we split into small teams,hitting more schools the better ,with the crowd being able to udentify with at least one of the HIV+ persons,as they will be from all races & cultures.If anyone would like to DONATE something for OUR HIV+ SUPPORT GROUP U CAN DROP IT OFF AT ACCESS AIDS SUDBURY ,111 ELM ST SUITE 203,AND SPECIFY THAT ITS FOR THE hiv SUPPORT GROUP!!!THANKS & TAX DEDUCTIONS ARE AVAIBALE UPON REQUEST.PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FPOLKS!!!

So talked with brothers & NOTHING!!!

So ya today is warmer with the temp at -5 & it will warm up further with the temp said to be in the +7 range!For a January in Sudbury ,thats not to normal,as weather goes anyways.So my bro’s are doing ok,both workin hard.Mike still baking 25 hrs/week/steve still finishing cement.heard he wants to go soutrh for a holiday,great but mom is not doing well,and so we are going to lose her this year i am afraid.Npt much we casn do about it at all,now nways it all seems to over the top-over my head can i step out here please?k folks later eh!PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS!!!