Patients bill of rights
The Medical Cannabis Patients Bill of Rights:
The Medical Cannabis Patients' Bill of Rights was designed to
outline the basic rights of critically and chronically ill medical
cannabis users, and to urge the federal government to protect these
individuals from stigma, arrest and prosecution.
* I am not a criminal; I am a person living with a medical
condition and use cannabis to alleviate my suffering; I am capable of
making fundamental decisions about my health.
* I have the right to live free of unnecessary suffering,
social stigma and interference from the state, and should not have to
chose between my personal liberty and my health.
* I have the right to produce my own medicine if I am willing
and able to do so, or to access it from a safe source without fear of
arrest and persecution.
* It is the federal government's moral, legal and
constitutional obligation to defend these basic and inalienable human
rights, and to ensure that no organization or individual unduly
interferes with them.
Created by Philippe Lucas; Director Vancouver Island Compassion
Society and Canadians for Safe Access
(www.safeaccess.ca/).
Visit: Compassionate Canadians
