North America Half Baked

OTTAWA — Doctors will be allowed to dispense medicinal marijuana
from their offices under a federal plan unveiled this week. As early as one week from now, the government will start delivering the
drug to doctors treating Canadians who have the right to use
it. The drug will be in the form of seeds or mature cannabis cultivated
at an abandoned mine in Flin Flon, Man.

meanwhile….

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration wants the Supreme Court’s permission
to strip prescription licenses from doctors who recommend marijuana to
sick patients.