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VII. INFORMATION RESOURCES
1. Background
β’ A Roadmap to Compassion: http://safeaccess.ca/library/roadmap_to_
compassion.pdf
β’ Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs Final Report (recommending
that Health Canada license and work with compassion clubs): http://
www.parl.gc.ca/common/Committee_SenRep.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&
Ses=1&comm_id=85
β’ BCCCS Operational Standards for the Distribution of Medical Cannabis:
http://www.thecompassionclub.org/resources/standardsapr30.pdf
2. Access to Dispensaries
Forms used by the BC Compassion Club Society and the Vancouver Island
Compassion Society: they can be used or modified by individual dispensaries.
β’ http://thevics.com/forms.htm
β’ http://www.thecompassionclub.org/become/forms
3. Client Education
a. Safe Use
β’ The BCCCS Safe and Effective Use Pamphlet: http://www.
thecompassionclub.org/resources/strainbroch.pdf
β’ VICS Medical cannabis Guide: http://thevics.com/publications/vics/
VICSMedsGuide2005.pdf
b. Countra-indications and drug interactions
β’ Bayer Canada (distributors of Sativex): http://www.bayerhealth.
ca/display.cfm?Object_ID=272&Article_ID=121&expandMenu_
ID=53&prevSubItem=5_
β’ Solvay Pharmaceuticals (maker of the synthetic THC medication
Marinol): http://www.solvaypharma.ca/en/products/hcp/pdf/
Marinol_HCP_Mono.pdf
β’ Health Canada: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/howcomment/
medpract/infoprof/index_rev_e.html
c. Political/Legal Climate
β’ Canadians for Safe Access: www.safeaccess.ca
β’ Health Canadafs Marijuana Medical Access Division (http://www.hcsc.
gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/index_e.html)
β’ John Conroy, Q.C. has a comprehensive list of relevant medical
cannabis legal challenges and decision in his websitefs library:
http://johnconroy.com/library.html
4. Dispensing Cannabis
Cannabis By-Products and Recipes for Alternative Methods of Ingestion:
β’ Recipes available at http://thevics.com/vicsdocs.htm
5. Cannabis Supply
Additional Reading and Resources for Safe Cannabis Production:
β’ Indoor Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor Bible, by Jorge Cervantes
β’ Marijuana Indoors: Five Easy Gardens, by Jorge Cervantes
β’ Marijuana Outdoors: Guerilla Growing, by Jorge Cervantes
β’ Growing Medical Marijuana Organically, by Jeff Mota, Frieda Weed
β’ How to Grow Marijuana Indoors for Medicinal Use, by G. W. Carver
β’ Marijuana Growerfs Guide, by Mel Frank, L. P. Kallan (Illustrator),
Oliver Williams (Illustrator)
β’ Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, by Jorge Cervantes
β’ Ask Ed β Ed Rosenthalfs web site: http://www.quicktrading.com/
home.html
β’ Wo/Menfs Alliance for Medical Marijuana: http://www.wamm.org/
video.htm
6. Additional Information
List of Legal Aid Services (by province):
β’ Commission des services juridiques du Quebec, Tel: (514) 873-3562
β’ Law Society of Nunavut, Tel: (867) 979-2330
β’ Legal Aid Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador, Tel: (709) 753-7860, Toll Free: 1-800-563-9911
β’ Legal Aid Manitoba, Tel: (204) 985-8500, Toll Free: 1-800-261-2960, TTY: (204) 943-1131
β’ Legal Aid New Brunswick, Tel: (506) 458-8540
β’ Legal Aid Ontario, Telephone: (416) 979-1446, Toll Free: 1-800-668-8258, TTY: (416) 598-8867, TTY: Toll Free: 1-866-641-8867
β’ Legal Aid Prince Edward Island, Tel: (902) 368-6016
β’ Legal Aid Society of Alberta, Toll-free in Alberta: 1-866-845-3425, Direct from Edmonton (780) 644-7777
β’ Legal Services Board of the Northwest Territories, Tel: (867) 920-3160, Yellowknife residents only. Toll Free: (888) 920-3160, NWT wide.
β’ Legal Services Society of British Columbia.,Tel: (604) 408-2172, Lower Mainland Toll Free: 1-866-577-2525, outside the Lower Mainland
β’ Nova Scotia Legal Aid Commission, Tel: (902) 420-6578, Toll-free: 1-877-420-6578
β’ Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission, Tel: (306) 933-5300, Toll-free: 1-800-667-3764
β’ Yukon Legal Services Society, Tel: (867) 667-5210, Toll Free: 1-800-661-0408 ext. 5210
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