There are lots of useful articles and websites out there if you are willing to do all the leg work yourself. If you are looking for a faster route and don’t want to pay too much, check out the Easy Access Canada Instruction Kit which will give you everything you need to complete and get your MMAR card, including a list of doctors in your area.
Must Know Facts About Health Canada’s MMAR Program:
1. MMAR stands for medical marijuana access regulations.
2. MMAR division of Health Canada is headquartered in Toronto and not Ottawa.
3. Health Canada’s mmar program was first established in February of 2001 because pressure from the Ontario and BC governments.
4. The MMAR essentially makes it so that any Canadian can get access to legal medical marijuana…just like in California.
History of Medical Marijuana in Canada:
The Prohibition of marijuana in Canada of course coincides with the Prohibition of marijuana in the United States. It was made truly illegal when liquor was outlawed but unlike liquor was never made legal again. Many people would ague that timber companies used lobbyist to influence legislative bodies to ban marijuana because it effectively destroyed the hemp industry…hemp being a raw material that may have wiped out timber or at the very least took a huge chunk out of it. To this day the timber lobby is actively petitioning legislative bodies all around the world…but especially in North America to keep marijuana illegal.
The introduction of Canadas medical marijuana program was a political response to a society that uses marijuana. Over sixty percent of Canadians use marijuana. To call the majority of your population criminals just doesn’t make sense. So the government came up with the MMAR. If you ask this writer it doesn’t go nearly far enough. It is so difficult to get that only 30,000 people have one. Furthermore you fundamentally shouldn’t need the government or a doctors permission to ingest a plant. If you ask this writer its an affront to liberty itself!
The health effects of smoking and using medical marijuana have been widely debated for years. Harvard university has recently done a study that says its not harmful at all and actually prevents cancer while other universities have done studies that rove just the opposite. It is a very polarized issue and it is therefore hard to find good information. The hard truth is that it is bad for you. Of course smoking anything or doing anything that’s not working out and sleeping is bad for you. It seems though that everyone can agree that cigarettes are much more harmful than marijuana.
Summary:
It is not easy to get your MMAR license, Health Canada likes to make it very difficult for us Canadians. A few other helpful websites are Health Canada (ironic, I know), Health Canada MMAR as well as multiple wikipedia articles. The writer encourages you to keep going forward in your quest for medical marijuana. All Canadians should be entitled to choose which method of pain relief they want their body to absorb.
