« Getting Higher | Main | Medical Cannabis Campaign Continues »
ADVOCATE’S CORNER by Steve Palmer – A.C.P.D.
By Hempology | November 8, 2003
For people with disability, life presents substantial challenges, challenges that result not from the disability…. but from the accompanying marginalization, discrimination, disregard and neglect of the appalling social economic conditions we are now faced with in British Columbia.
Traditional approaches to disability have depicted it as a health and welfare issue, to be addressed through care provided to persons with disability in the form of charitable handouts and similar measures. Persons with disability have been viewed as abnormal and deserving of pity and care, not as individuals who are entitled to enjoy the same opportunities to live a full and satisfying life as members of society. As a consequence, persons with disability have been excluded both from the mainstream of society, and have been denied or significantly limited in the enjoyment of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
If we want to stop this from happening here in British Columbia, then we need to defend these rights, to make sure these rights stay in the ownership of citizens with disability and that they don’t get adapted to suit the interests of other people.
Topics: Cannabis Digest-1st Issue | Comments Off
Comments are closed.