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Not providing marijuana endangers the sick: lawyer

By: Gay Abbate, Globe and Mail, 07/30/03

The federal government is endangering the lives of seriously ill Canadians by forcing them into the black market to obtain marijuana for medicinal use, Ontario's highest court was told yesterday.

Lawyer Alan Young told the Ontario Court of Appeal that Ottawa is violating the constitutional right of Canadians to choose their own medical treatment by not making the illegal narcotic available. He represents seven seriously ill Canadians and the operator of a Toronto compassion club that supplied weed to the sick.