Pot problems have familiar ring
Richert teaches in the department of history at the University of Saskatchewan.
In the award-winning 2013 movie, Dallas Buyers Club, we are exposed to heroic patient activism during the AIDS crisis in the United States.
Based on the true story of AIDS-stricken Ron Woodroof, a hard-partying Texas tradesman, the film shows a strikingly thin Matthew McConaughey battle his sickness and the legal authorities in Texas.
Woodroof, who's unhappy with his illegally purchased AIDS medicine, and on the edge of death, seeks out alternative and experimental drugs from a doctor in Mexico. Then Ron, being the savvy entrepreneur that he is, quickly establishes a club (a dispensary) to sell his unregulated, sometimes dangerous, imported medicines.
In doing so, he operates outside the law and is forced to confront the existing power structure of drug regulation.
At one point in the film, Ron storms a town-hall meeting of citizens, drug company leaders...
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