Brent Lewandoski

Brent Lewandoski, a member of the national steering committee for the project and one of the four panelists at the press conference launching the report, says people have the right to choose the therapy best suited for them.

Speaking softly behind his glasses with an AIDS pin on his left navy blazer, Lewandoski outlined the difficulties faced by many of his friends with AIDS.

"It's very important that people be aware that people who use medicinal cannabis are there to improve their quality of life and to help them become better and productive people in society," says Lewandoski.

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Brent Lewandoski, a member of the national steering committee for the CAS study and one of the four panellists at a Jun 14 press conference in Ottawa to launch the study report, said people have the right to choose the therapy best suited to them.

"It's very important that people be aware that people who use medicinal cannabis do so to improve their quality of life and to help them [get] better and [become] productive people in society," he said.

Brent Lewandoski, a member of the national steering committee for the project and one of the four panelists at the press conference launching the report, says people have the right to choose the therapy best suited for them.

Speaking softly behind his glasses with an AIDS pin on his left navy blazer, Lewandoski outlined the difficulties faced by many of his friends with AIDS.

"It's very important that people be aware that people who use medicinal cannabis are there to improve their quality of life and to help them become better and productive people in society," says Lewandoski.

Brent Lewandoski, member of the national steering committee for this project
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Brent LewandoskiBrent Lewandoski currently sits on the board of directors of the HIV/AIDS Network of South Eastern Alberta Association.He has worked as a life skills coach, and a probation officer in the late 1980s and early 1990s.He helped start a local AIDS service organization in Medicine Hat, Alberta.He was active in the Alberta Community Council on HIV and served as a board member of the Interfaith Centre for AIDS Resources and Education.He was involved in the formation of the Alberta Positive Network and sat on the steering committee for the first four years.For the past three years, he has been a member of the Alberta Community HIV Fund Consortium.He speaks in schools about living with HIV/AIDS and was the first person in his community to go public with his HIV status.He was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1996.Although he does not use cannabis as part of his therapy, Brent strongly believes in a person's right to choose the therapy that works for them.

"Offering only one legal source and one strain of cannabis for distribution to authorized Canadians may not be a constitutionally adequate alternative..." Brent Lewandoski, a member of the national steering committee for the CAS study and one of the four panellists at a Jun 14 press conference in Ottawa to launch the study report, said people have the right to choose the therapy best suited to them.'it's very important that people be aware that people who use medicinal cannabis do so to improve their quality' of life and to help them [get] better and [become] productive people in society. he said. - -With files from Matt Mills www.cdnaids.ca

Brent Lewandoski, a member of the national steering committee for the project and one of the four panelists at the press conference launching the report, says people have the right to choose the therapy best suited for them.

Speaking softly behind his glasses with an AIDS pin on his left navy blazer, Lewandoski outlined the difficulties faced by many of his friends with AIDS.

"It's very important that people be aware that people who use medicinal cannabis are there to improve their quality of life and to help them become better and productive people in society," says Lewandoski.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 12:09 pm and is filed under articles.