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Ottawa to provide medical marijuana: report

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 07/09/03

TORONTO - There's a report that the federal government will ask doctors to distribute medical marijuana grown in a Manitoba lab.

CTV News quoted sources Tuesday as saying the lab has now produced 370 kilograms of marijuana suitable for medical use.

Six months ago, an Ontario court ordered Health Canada to improve access to medical marijuana.

Ottawa is appealing that decision, but the court imposed a deadline of Wednesday to set new rules for people who have a medical need for marijuana but can't get it legally.

Grown in an abandoned mine

Ottawa began growing a supply of marijuana in an abandoned mine in Flin Flon, Man., when Allan Rock was health minister.

But when Anne McLellan took over the portfolio, Health Canada announced it would not provide the marijuana for medical use until officials saw scientific proof that the drug was effective.