Social engineering a la 'Brave New World'.

     Since the myth was perpetuated that patients perceived need need for 'medical' marijuana actually equates with the need for medical marijuana things have been really going to pot!  Veterans' marijuana prescriptions have risen tenfold up to December 31, 2015.  Read that again, yes tenfold.   In addition, the government is actually paying for their pot .    From April Fools day 2015 to December 31 2015 the government has actually paid out $12.1 MILLION dollars on this.  Apart from the fact that this is bad medicine which encourages and perpetuates addiction, it is the height of irresponsibility.The fact that there are obviously many physicians buying into this requires extensive investigation of both the prescribers and the prescribees.  The current shocked reaction is certainly not the results of administrative concern about good medical practice, but about the bottom line.  $12.1 MILLION!   Soon every pot addict in  the country will find a good reason to have their 'soma' dose paid for by the State and if it were not for the economics of the situation the State would be glad to perpetuate a mental fog that would keep the folks  off their backs.
     I believe the  Department of Health needs to initiate an immediate investigation by an appropriately qualified team who understand the issues.
     I believe the College of Physicians of Ontario is obliged to look into this anomaly in prescribing to ascertain that the medical conditions being treated are real  and there is real  evidence that marijuana is an appropriate treatment. 
     There is a real problem with drug addiction in Canada.  The last thing we need is a government or profession that through a desire to be politically correct or for other reasons is handing out drugs.  
      If you or your children have not read 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley, I would urge you to do so.  Between that and '1984', one gets considerable insight into the sort of social engineering that is rampant today.

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