Drug Companies Can Legally Start Selling Cocaine, Heroin, and MDMA
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#2CANADIAN companies.
"A Canadian weed company and a psychedelics company have received government licenses to make and distribute the drugs under certain circumstances."
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#3 “They are only permitted for sale to other licence holders who have cocaine listed on
their licence, pharmacists, practitioners, hospitals, or the holder of a section 56(1)
exemption for research purposes,” the agency said.
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#4One of them had to retract their statement after it caught the attention of the province’s prime minister as well as the federal prime minister.
link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/justin-trude...
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#5The story evolved later that day
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/justin-trude...
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#6Any luck they'll create something like a Managed Alcohol Program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_alcohol_program
Unclear what benefit there is to stopping people addicted to opiates getting those opiates cleanly and cheaply.
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#7Is this really news? There have always been a couple of companies given license to produce such things for various narrow purposes.
Cocaine is used as an anesthetic in some nasal and eye surgeries for example. Research and testing purposes also need clean standards to use for comparison.
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#8Good grief, the media is really running with this lol.
"scientific and medical purposes only"
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#9“They are only permitted for sale to other licence holders who have cocaine listed on their licence, pharmacists, practitioners, hospitals, or the holder of a section 56(1) exemption for research purposes,” the agency said. Wonder if "research tourism" is expected to become a thing? ;)
You darn well can bet it is already.
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#10In the US MDMA started off as a legal drug until the mid 80s when the DEA made it illegal