Feds' pot crop not up to snuff

Mark Kennedy - Edmonton Journal

Wednesday, May 08, 2002

Oops! The official supply of federal pot is bad weed.

So impure, in fact, that the first crop contains 185 different varieties of pot.

Hardly the stuff a health minister would want to provide to a seriously ill patient to relieve their symptoms.

Health Minister Anne McLellan revealed the "problem"

Tuesday, saying it's responsible for the delay -- which could last at least several more months -- for getting the department's much-heralded plan off the ground to provide marijuana to Canadians who need it for medicinal purposes.

She said the unreliable pot stems from the seeds that were used.

Initially, the federal government had hoped to obtain a standardized seed from the U.S. government, but officials in the American Drug Enforcement Agency refused to share the stuff.

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