From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   TURMEL: Challenge to 150-gram Possess & Shipping limit   
      
   JCT: Judge Manon imposed the 30 days supply or 150-gram   
   possession limit on patients despite some patients having   
   more than 150 grams per day prescriptions.   
      
   B.C. Superior Court had to correct Manson's mistake in   
   Garber v. HMQ by giving the Plaintiffs a 10-day supply, not   
   quite equal treatment with those with 30-day supply.   
      
   So I'm preparing a kit for those who'd like to ask Federal   
   Court to give them not only a 10-day supply but the full 30   
   days. Here's the draft:   
      
                                           File No: _________   
                          FEDERAL COURT   
   Between:   
                             150 GRAM   
                                                Plaintiff   
                                AND   
                       Her Majesty The Queen   
                                                Defendant   
      
                         STATEMENT OF CLAIM   
            (Pursuant to S.48 of the Federal Court Act)   
      
   1. The Plaintiff seeks a declaration that Sections 6(1)(d);   
   9(4); 93(1)(e); 145(1)(e); 146(5); 178(2)(f)(ii) in the   
   Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations   
   ("ACMPR") imposing a 150-gram cap on possessing and shipping   
   cannabis marijuana which compel patients to destroy any   
   unused cannabis before receipt of any new supply are   
   unconstitutional on the grounds they pose a threat of fines   
   or incarceration to the lives of patients with larger   
   prescriptions, some in excess of 150 grams per day, that   
   violate their S.7 & S.15 Charter Rights to Life, Liberty,   
   Security and Equality not in accordance with principles of   
   fundamental justice to not be arbitrary, grossly   
   disproportional, conscience-shocking, incompetent,   
   malevolent.   
      
   PARTIES   
      
   2. The Plaintiff is a person Possessing ACMPR Authorization   
      
   MCR-___________ to use _______ grams of cannabis per day.   
      
   3. The Defendant, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada,   
   as represented by the Attorney General of Canada, is named   
   as the representative of the Federal Government of Canada   
   and the Minister of Health for Canada who is the Minister   
   responsible for Health Canada and certain aspects of the   
   Controlled Drugs and Substances Act including the Narcotic   
   Control Regulations and the ACMPR.   
      
   BACKGROUND:   
      
   4. The previous Medical Marijuana Access Regulations   
   ("MMAR") regime limited patients to possessing a 30-day   
   supply of cannabis prescribed in the medical document.   
      
   5. Health Canada has long urged doctors to limit   
   prescriptions to no more than 5 grams per day, a maximum of   
   150 grams per month!   
      
   6. On April 1 2014, the introduction of the Marijuana for   
   Medical Purposes Regulations ("MMPR") offered the Defendant   
   the chance to pressure doctors to prescribe not more than   
   Health Canada's recommended 5 grams per day by imposing a   
   possession or shipping limit of 30 x daily dosage or 150   
   grams."   
      
   7. Patients whose doctors comply with Health Canada's   
   medical opinion may possess a 30-day supply. But patients   
   whose doctors do not comply are punished by being permitted   
   to carry fewer and fewer days of supply until some patients   
   with over 150 grams per day may not even possess one full   
   day's supply! Prescriptions over 50 grams per day run short   
   over a 2-day weekend. Prescriptions of 38 grams run short   
   over a 3-day long weekend. Prescriptions over 30 grams run   
   short over a 4-day Christmas holiday.   
      
   8. In the Federal Court pre-trial motion in Allard v. HMTQ   
   T-2030-13 for an injunction to extend the MMAR pending a   
   determination of the constitutionality of the MMPR, Health   
   Canada asked the court to impose the MMPR's proposed 150   
   gram possession and shipping limit onto MMAR exemptees.   
      
   9. To further that aim, on Feb 7 2014, Health Canada   
   provided false and misleading data to Judge Manson. Health   
   Canada's Jeanine Ritchot Affidavit paragraphs 24-29 with   
   regard to the MMPR Sections S.5, S.130, S.122, S.123 stated   
   these facts up to December 2013:   
       24. 36,797 ATPs.   
       25. 675,855 daily grams prescribed.   
       26. Average licensed indoor plants 101, outdoor 11.   
       27. Average Canadian daily dosage 17.7 grams.   
       28. According to Ex. A "Information for Health Care   
       Professionals" at page 24 "Various surveys published in   
       peer-reviewed literature have suggested that the   
       majority of people using smoked or orally-ingested   
       cannabis for medical reasons reported using between 10-   
       20 grams of cannabis per week or approximately 1-3 grams   
       of cannabis per day."   
       29. Individuals who purchase their dried marijuana from   
       Health Canada have on average purchased 1-3 grams per   
       day, which is in line with daily dosages set out in the   
       most current scientific literature referenced   
       "Information for Health Care Professionals" Ex.A"   
      
   10. There is something inherently wrong with speaking of   
   average of 1 to 3 grams. An average is not a range, it is a   
   point, the average of several points. The average of 1-3   
   grams is 2 grams. Being given a range for the average   
   suggests improper or incompetent statistical analysis for a   
   nefarious purpose.   
      
   11. 675,855 grams per day divided by 36,797 users is 18.37   
   grams per day, not 17.7. Health Canada bureaucrats can't   
   even do basic division right. The true total average   
   Canadian consumption is about 18 grams per day.   
      
   12. Each gram prescribed allows the growing of nearly 5   
   plants so the 101-plant average is supported by an average   
   prescribed home-grown dosage of over 20 grams per day.   
   Commercial cannabis includes taxes and shipping costs so 10   
   times more prescribed for tax- and shipping-free home-grown   
   than prescribed for purchase from commercial growers is not   
   unexpected. Combining the Health Canada sales averaging 2   
   grams per day with the 20 grams per day prescribed for home-   
   grown use does bring the new total average down to the   
   actual 18 grams per day reported.   
      
   13. Footnote 165:   
       (1) Clark, A. J., Ware, M. A., Yazer, E., Murray, T. J.   
       and others. (2004). Patterns of cannabis use among   
       patients with multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 62: 2098-   
       2100. The sample size 144 was calculated to detect an   
       estimated prevalence of 10% with a 2.5% standard error.   
      
   14. Clark's study says not a word about daily dosage at all.   
   Results from a sample of only Muscular Dystrophy patients is   
   hardly indicative of the average dosage for all other   
   illnesses. A 2.5% standard error from the mean of 10% is a   
   pretty big error due to the small number of subjects.   
   Significance was set at the 95% level, that's 2 Standard   
   Deviations according to the Statistics Rule of 66-95-99.7:   
   1SD: 66% 2SD: 95% 3SD: 99.7%.   
      
      
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