Marihuana? They even misspelled the word. It looks like spam to me now.
Itâs kind of a hard thing to prove donât you think? My family suspects an employee of TicketMaster knew we were going to a show, thus they hit our house during a showtime despite the place being lit up. Can I prove it? No, but it would be a great advantage to someone with inside knowledge wouldnât it? I do know that I had to redo registration paperwork because they were LOST at the CFC the first time - isnât that chain of custody break a bit disconcerting? Just like these patients if robbed will likely never be able to definitively say that this address gaffe was why. What we should be asking is what practical purpose do these lists serve, and does a data leak pose a bigger threat than not warehousing it at all?
Last I checked it wasnât written on my wifeâs insurance bill envelope âhereâs the bill for your wifeâs depression and the anti-psychotic her doctor prescribedâ. This is clearly a violation of medical privacy, period.
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Come on now, this is all weâre talking about here. Thatâs it, thatâs all. I can see how some folks would be displeased, but I think this is being blown out of proportion.
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This post I understand- and partially agree with. I think a case can be made for keeping a registry of firearms in the community. Not a perfect case, but there are valid arguments on that side of the fence. I also think the integrity of that list is important.
I donât think there is really a rational case for any registry or even tracking of marijuana users or growers. In a logical world rooted in common sense, nobody would give a damn about the stuff. The bureaucratic minor screwup in the OP is just an example of what can go wrong in an atmosphere of partial, admin heavy legalization - in which you get some of the worst parts of all options, and few of the best parts.
Persons still care, and persons still rob houses/apartments. Even in glorious Canada.
Besides, whatâs so wrong with being horrified by privacy violations?
I didnât say there was anything wrong with these folks feeling bad about this, in fact I expressed my sympathy. Fuck, with MS she has enough to worry about. However, anyone who would notice this is already reading the effected persons mail. At least the outside of it.
So lets keep this in perspective is all Iâm saying. A postal worker had no fucking business commenting on her correspondence, Iâm all for torches and pitchforks for that person. Also up for pilloring mail thieves. As for whatever drudge in the Health Canada offices that put the MMJ office on the return address? Not so much.
Letâs get HC to put some resources toward the reasons why these folks feel afraid to receive mail from the MMAP, lets go after the real issue, yes?
Actually, it isnât as bad as one would believe. The point of the letters was to inform of the changes to the medical marijuana program. Medical marijuana users wonât be able to grow their own supply anymore. The change is to make things safer all around. Only commercially licensed growers will be able to supply weed to users.
In BC, some large rural grow-ops have been targeted by organized crime groups as the plants are just about ready to mature. If the owner is around when the theft occurs the person could be in serious trouble. Also, grow-ops are generally prone to mold and many MM users live in tenancies that have to be cleaned and repaired at great expense to the owner.
Most of the MM users that got the letters shouldnât worry too much, they probably donât have enough weed to actually make theft worth it.
Looks correctly spelled to me.
Not sure if you are Canadian or not, but we have a licensing system, effectively an owners registry. It is an order of magnitude easier to track the people than the objects and each transaction they are subsequently involved in. It also should fulfill the public safety aspect of making police aware of who is potentially (legally) armed, even though they should also consider criminals likely wonât be on that list. Handguns are registered, and continue to be. Long guns in crime use are a statistical anomaly.
Anyhow, weâre digressing. As a gun owner, things like this hit closer to home because I worry about being targeted due to an information leak similar to this. Consider that CGI built the registry - the same company that is now bogged down in the US health insurance website issues.
Fascinating that Health Canada uses the âMarihuanaâ spelling,
instead of the more common âmarijaunaâ
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Really? My postman reluctantly looks at the âtoâ address, I canât imagine he spends much time analysing the âfromâ address.
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If it said âHIV medical access programâ, or âADHD medical access programâ would you then understand the privacy implications? Iâm also cool with weed, but if I saw that in my neighbours postbox (which I have access to) I would feel as though Iâd had inappropriate insight into their medical treatment.
And is posting it to the internet really blowing anything out of proportion? Itâs a privacy violation, in an industry where privacy is pretty important; thatâs all thatâs being pointed out.
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Thatâs how the Government of Canada spells it - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/index-eng.php. I once asked a Federal Crown who handles drug prosecutions why and didnât get a very satisfactory answer: she said everyone in the media was wrong. But we in the media disagree. Neither spelling is particularly wrong. http://medicalmarijuana.ca/news/0/172
Huh, I just Googled it and Wikipedia does in fact point out that itâs from the âMexican Spanishâ word âmarihuanaâ @Garrden
TIL.
Sure, at least until some clowns in ski masks kick in your door and stomp you unconscious before making off with your medicine; thereâs a reason medical marijuana users tell people about the plants theyâre growing around here.
This is just another example of the quality leadership our current quasi-fascist government is providing. I very much doubt this was an accident.
Then again, nobody was ever shot with stolen weed.
And so those clowns in ski masks are⌠reading peoples mail? Post office employees?
The shared mailbox issue is easily solved - get your own, locked box. As for postal employees seeing who is sending you mail, I just don;t see it as that big of a deal. The post office sorts bazillions of letters and packages, I find it unlikely there are thugs in the post office screening all the mail so that they can go get their ski masks and rob some weed grower after work.
Yes, if I was one of the patients, I imagine I could get a locking mail box, litter my condo with claymores, or hire an armed guard. Thatâs not the point; the point is, these people shouldnât have to be worrying about countermeasures to our governments petty stupidity.
I say petty, because my guess is this act was intentional. Theyâre in the process of disallowing patients to grow their own supply, instead theyâre forcing them to go to one of a few government sanctioned (read: someone with conservative connections & a history of donations) commercial grower at about 8 to 10 times the price per ounce. Just what every sick person on a fixed income needs, a couple extra thousand a month in costs for a product of dubious quality.
Leave it to Harperâs conservatives to try and monetize suffering.
Yeah, Iâm certainly not happy with the changes either, with you on that at least.
