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  5. Supreme Court of Canada won't hear appeal of medical marijuana case

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    In a nutshell, it was the law that licensed growers of medical marijuana were only allowed to grow for a single person; him or herself, or another person - but only one. The relevance of the judgment at issue is that it says that such licensed growers should be allowed to supply as many people as need the product, so long as they are prescribed the drug for medical reasons. Given that the Supreme Court of Canada won't hear an appeal of that judgment, that means that all appeals are exhausted, and the judgment is now the law:

    Supreme Court of Canada won't hear appeal of medical marijuana case

    By: THE CANADIAN PRESS

    OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that effectively loosened Ottawa's control over access to medicinal marijuana.

    The federal government had essentially controlled a monopoly over medicinal marijuana by concentrating its growth at an underground mine in Manitoba, and through only allowing commercial growers to provide the drug to one customer at a time.

    Authorized patients were also allowed to grow their own supply of marijuana.

    The government argued that growing its marijuana predominantly at one source was the only way to provide a safe and sufficient supply.

    In January 2008, a Federal Court judge declared the government's Medicinal Marijuana Access Regulations invalid on the grounds that they violated the charter rights of patients and their ability to rightfully access the drug.

    The Ontario Court of Appeal had also made a similar ruling previously and the federal government unsuccessfully appealed both decisions.

    A panel of Federal Court judges said they were concerned that Health Canada didn't appear to have a good sense of whether patients'needs were being met by the government's marijuana supply.

  13. Cricket Spitting

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    April 9, 2009

    UGA student sets state cricket-spitting record

    Dead crickets fly again at UGA Insect Zoo.

    David Friedman sent a cricket flying 31.55 feet – with his mouth. Now the University of Georgia junior from St. Simons holds the unofficial state record for cricket spitting.

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    Photo: Stephanie Schupska/UGA

    Caitlin Smith, a environmental health and ecology major at the University of Georgia, tries out her cricket-spitting skills at UGA's 24th annual Insect Zoo.

    By Stephanie Schupska

    University of Georgia

    David Friedman sent a cricket flying 31.55 feet – with his mouth. Now the University of Georgia junior from St. Simons holds the unofficial state record for cricket spitting.

    “I would say the secret is you got to get a good lunge forward with the head and diaphragm,†said Friedman, a finance major in UGA’s Terry College of Business. “Put your whole body into it. My sister and I used to see how far we could spit watermelon seeds, so I guess that helped out.â€

    Friedman’s unusual honor was awarded during an entomology service-learning class this spring.

    The cricket-spitting contest is the newest addition to the annual Insect Zoo hosted by the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences entomology department. Now in its 24th year, the zoo’s organizers decided it was time to send things hopping.

    Cricket spitting started at Purdue University in 1996 when entomology professor Tom Turpin added the competition to the annual Bug Bowl event there. In 1998, Dan Capps from Madison, Wis., set the current Guinness World Record with a cricket spit of 32 feet and a half inch.

    UGA entomology program coordinator Marianne Robinette plans to invite Guinness officials to the 2010 insect zoo. She’s hoping a Georgian will set the world record.

    For an amateur, Friedman came close.

    “My second cricket reached 31.55 feet,†he said. “I would say it was pretty miraculous, almost like a hole in one, but more like an eagle on a par five.â€

    In addition to reaching the farthest distance, Friedman’s brown house cricket had to land intact – with six legs, four wings and two antennas. And, he had 20 seconds to accomplish this feat.

    Robinette was in charge of the rules and regulations for the contest and making sure the crickets were sterilized.

    “We soaked them in alcohol, rinsed them in water and froze them,†she said.

    Friedman plans to put his honor and his newly gained insect knowledge to use in the future.

    “I’ll be the coolest dad in the world because I will know everything about bugs,†he said. “Or if I am ever lost in the wild, I may know what can or can’t harm me, or what I may or may not eat.â€

    (Stephanie Schupska is a news editor with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.)

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