MrFixit
June 4th, 2007, 08:29 PM
http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals/uploads/saanich/.DIR288/S_Unpaid_Pot_Bills_BPC_3_P_June0107_070601.jpg Don Denton/News staff
Ann Genovy (left), Linda Rushton and Jason Wilcox have all been cut off their medical marijuana because they haven’t paid their bills for the drug.
By Brennan Clarke
News staff
Jun 01 2007
Medical marijuana patients threatened by collection action
Any other terminally ill patient in Canada would have all his prescriptions covered by the Canadian health care system.
Jason Wilcox owes so much money for his medication, Health Canada has cut off his supply and threatened to send a collection agency after him.
Wilcox, a James Bay resident, is one of about 149 federally approved medical marijuana patients who have either failed to pay or refused to pay for their government grown pot, leaving the government with more than $140,000 in unpaid pot bills.
Since receiving his government exemption to cultivate and/or possess marijuana three years ago, Wilcox has racked up more than $6,000 for pot he purchased from the government’s legal grow-op in Flin Flon, Manitoba. When a 300-gram shipment arrived at his subsidized housing complex March 23, the invoice advised him “this is your last shipment.”
http://www.saanichnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=28&cat=46&id=996794&more=0
Ann Genovy (left), Linda Rushton and Jason Wilcox have all been cut off their medical marijuana because they haven’t paid their bills for the drug.
By Brennan Clarke
News staff
Jun 01 2007
Medical marijuana patients threatened by collection action
Any other terminally ill patient in Canada would have all his prescriptions covered by the Canadian health care system.
Jason Wilcox owes so much money for his medication, Health Canada has cut off his supply and threatened to send a collection agency after him.
Wilcox, a James Bay resident, is one of about 149 federally approved medical marijuana patients who have either failed to pay or refused to pay for their government grown pot, leaving the government with more than $140,000 in unpaid pot bills.
Since receiving his government exemption to cultivate and/or possess marijuana three years ago, Wilcox has racked up more than $6,000 for pot he purchased from the government’s legal grow-op in Flin Flon, Manitoba. When a 300-gram shipment arrived at his subsidized housing complex March 23, the invoice advised him “this is your last shipment.”
http://www.saanichnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=28&cat=46&id=996794&more=0