Canadaian Medicinal Marijuana NEWS Archives

Source: Calgary Sun

By Kathleen Harris

June 15,2010

Tighten rules on medicinal pot production: Grit MP

A growing number of Canadians permitted to grow pot for health reasons are exploiting the special right to operate grow-ops, says a Liberal MP who wants to tighten the rules. Scarborough, Ont., MP Michelle Simson's Bill C-539 aims to [...]

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Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)

By Todd Coyne

June 11,2010

Not all marijuana users should be treated the same way, study says

A public health drive aimed at educating heavy marijuana users most likely to run into problems with the drug should replace the current one-size-fits-all criminalization of all users, says a new Canadian study. “We’re arguing for a differentiated approach that recognizes that some people, but only some, a minority, have problems from their cannabis use and [...]

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Source: CBC News

June 6,2010

Raids highlight gaps in medical marijuana program

Police raids that shut down five compassion clubs in Quebec on Thursday underline some key problems with the federal government's medical marijuana distribution program, says the former leader of the Marijuana Party, Marc-Boris St-Maurice. [...]

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Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)

By Tiffany Crawford

June 5,2010

BC pot shop fears crackdown after Quebec raids

As a new medical marijuana dispensary is set to open next week in Vancouver’s West End, the B. C. Compassion Club Society expressed concern Friday that raids on four pot shops in Montreal could be the start of a disturbing trend of police crackdowns across the country. Desperate medical pot users in Quebec have been calling [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge News (CN BC)

June 3,2010

Police raid Maple Ridge medical marijuana growop

Police seized 1,744 pot plants from a house in Maple Ridge Thursday which was licensed to grow marijuana. The bust in the 12000-block of Skillen Street follows a four-month long investigation that found [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge Times (CN BC)

By Amy Steele

June 1,2010

Stop pot shop, says MP

Conservative MP Randy Kamp believes medicinal marijuana users who are getting their pot from a non-profit dispensary that just opened up in Maple Ridge should be charged for breaking the law. “They have a legal mechanism to get it through Health Canada or to designate someone to grow it for them so it’s certainly not that [...]

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Source: Daily Courier, The (CN BC)

By Don Plant

May 28,2010

Pot Suit Brought To Bring Insight

Pio says he wants police in B.C. to better undferstand medical marijuana Don Pio is authorized to smoke marijuana, and he wants every sheriff and police officer in B.C. to leave him alone. Six months after his arrest for carrying pot into the Kelowna Law Courts, the 35-year-old Kelowna man is suing the provincial [...]

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By Phil Melnychuk

May 27,2010

Pot dispensary still a ‘great concern’

There might be little the law can do about medicinal marijuana shops, but Maple Ridge council is trying to take a tougher tack on those who grow medicinal pot. Tuesday, council approved sending a letter to MP Randy Kamp and Health Canada, asking the department to ensure that all marijuana-licence holders are following provincial, federal [...]

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Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)

By Kim Bolan

May 21,2010

Court axes inspection law used to find pot operations

Cities Need Warrant To Enter Premises, Appeal Court Rules A law that allows city electrical inspectors to search houses for marijuana growing operations without warrants violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled. Five members of the court sided with appellant and Hells Angel associate Jason Cyrus [...]

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Source: Record Searchlight (Redding, CA)

By David Benda

May 20,2010

Family Tree medical marijuana co-op fights back

For the first time under the city’s new medical marijuana ordinance, Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen is recommending the suspension of a cannabis club’s operating permit because he says it’s been a nuisance. Hansen wants the city to revoke the license of Family Tree Care Center Co-Op in the Mission Square shopping center on Bechelli [...]

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Source: Times & Transcript (Moncton, CN NK)

By Nick Moore

May 17,2010

N.B. Doctors Open To Pot

Province Ranks Fourth Per Capita In Country For Number Of People Authorized To Possess Medical Marijuana FREDERICTON – New Brunswick has some of Canada’s more pot-friendly physicians, and a national group says they expect even more provincial doctors to be writing dope prescriptions in the year to come. The [...]

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Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC)

By Walter Cordery

May 15,2010

Process To Obtain Medicinal Pot Very Difficult, Says Local Patient

Medical Marijuana Different Than Prescription Drugs A Nanaimo woman who suffers with a brain tumour wants to know why she can walk into any clinic in the city and get narcotics that may do her more harm than good, but can’t get confirmation from Health Canada that her medicinal marijuana [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge News (CN BC)

By Amy Steele

May 14,2010

Petition supports pot dispensary

TAGGS medicinal marijuana dispensary has collected more than 150 signatures on a petition supporting its existence in just a few days, said director Michael Joinson (pictured). The dispensary also now has 35 members. The dispensary opened its doors on May 3 on 224 Street and has been creating headaches for [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge News (CN BC)

By Monisha Martins

May 13,2010

Mayor meets with pot dispensary society

If the mayor of Maple Ridge had his way, marijuana would regulated and taxed. “In Ernie’s perfect world, it would be dispensed from a pharmacy just like all other medicine,” said Ernie Daykin, after a meeting Tuesday with the director of the Always Growing Green Society, Michael Joinson, and marijuana activists Dana [...]

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Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC)

By Chris Hamlyn

May 13,2010

Club Reopens To Sell Medical Pot

Although a medical marijuana compassion club was shut down in Oceanside a few years ago, Bob Estes believes the mid-Island is ready for the service. It is legal for people with a Health Canada licence or doctor’s note to use medical marijuana in Canada, but it is not legal for people to buy or sell it. As [...]

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Source: Chronicle Herald (CN NS)

By Eva Hoare

May 13,2010

Permitted To Use Pot

Nova Scotia Has Highest Percentage of Authorized Medical Marijuana Users NOVA SCOTIANS use more medical marijuana per capita than anyone else in the country, the latest Health Canada figures show. About one person for every 1,914 Nova Scotians is authorized by the federal government to use the drug, compared to one for every 8,013 people in Ontario [...]

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Source: Guelph Mercury (CN ON)

By Greg Mercer

May 11,2010

Pot club stung by legal confusion

I’m confused. Not dazed and confused. Just confused. The source of my confusion is the decision by the Guelph Police Service to bust the Medical Cannabis Club of Guelph last week, which led to trafficking charges against four staff, including founder Rade Kovacevic. Part of my confusion may be because the message from Canadian [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge News (CN BC)

By Amy Steele

May 10,2010

Cops, District Check Out Medical Pot Shop

A new medicinal marijuana dispensary on 224 Street in Maple Ridge already has 18 people signed up as members in the first week of operation. However, Michael Joinson, director of The Always Growing Green Society ( TAGGS ), which runs the dispensary, is nervous the District of Maple Ridge or the Ridge [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge News (CN BC)

By Monisha Martins

May 3,2010

Marijuana Dispensary Opens In Maple Ridge

A dispensary to distribute medicinal marijuana in Maple Ridge opened its doors to its first customers Tuesday. In the first half-hour of an open house the previous day, eight people signed up to become members of the Taggs Medical Cannabis Dispensary, operated by the newly-formed non-profit Always Growing Green Society. All members of the dispensary must [...]

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Source: The Expositor

By Barbara Simpson

April 29,2010

'Mountain over a marijuana hill'

Delhi grower Rick West believes local police are building a "mountain over a marijuana hill" after two residents en route from his medical marijuana information centre were stopped. West claims that a Norfolk OPP officer [...]

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Source: The Expositor

By Daniel Pearce

April 27,2010

Residents catch a whiff of storefront operation

DELHI -A new storefront business in Delhi that provides information on how to get marijuana for medical purposes has left residents concerned and confused, Norfolk's police services board was told."There is considerable concern in the community, [...]

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Source: NBC 11 news.com

By Aaron Luna

April 27,2010

Is medical marijuana a good treatment for Autism?

Parents with Autistic children say finding a treatment for the condition can become an obsession, and often controls their lives which is why they weren't surprised to learn that some parents are giving their Autistic children medical marijuana. [...]

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Source: Eye Weekly.com

By Chris Bilton

April 21,2010

Everybody must get serious. The Toronto Freedom Festival is not just about blowing smoke

Last year, just as the Toronto Freedom Festival was gearing up for its annual celebration of/demonstration for the right to make personal choices, backbencher Liberal MP Keith Martin had introduced bill C-359 at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The small but significant [...]

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Source: The Toronto Star

By Jennifer Yang

April 17,2010

When Marijuana Is The Only Source Of Relief

When Georgia Peschel first heard police had raided CALM, a compassion club in Toronto, her initial panicked reaction was this: “Now where will my son get his marijuana?” For the past three years, Peschel and her 17-year-old have made the hour-long drive into Toronto every two weeks. They would knock on a [...]

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Source: The Vancouver Sun

By Jeff Lee

April 16,2010

Most Canadians still support decriminalization of pot: poll

A new poll shows the majority of Canadians support the legalizing of marijuana but not other, hard-core drugs. And nowhere is that support higher than in British Columbia, where more than six in 10 people say having a toke shouldn’t earn you a date with the courts. But the Angus Reid poll, released Thursday, also shows [...]

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Source: Nanaimo Daily News

By Derek Spalding

April 14,2010

Pot-growing operations decrease property values, make tough sell

Real Estate Experts Discuss Restoration Projects, Explain Depreciation Of Home Resale Selling homes identified as marijuana-growing operations can be a difficult task, according to real estate experts in Nanaimo. Property owners tend to spend anywhere between $10,000 and $20,000 on average to bring the property up to code, only to then take another [...]

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Source: CTV News

April 14,2010

Health Canada seeks firm to grow medical marijuana

OTTAWA — Health Canada is looking for someone to grow government-approved weed. The department has served notice it will soon allow firms to bid on a contract to grow and distribute medical marijuana. A series of court [...]

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Source: The Gazette

April 10,2010

Coherence needed on marijuana laws

If Canada's legal position on marijuana could get any less coherent, it's hard to know how. In Montreal, neighbours of a 1,000-member "Compassion Club" have noticed that a suspiciously large number of "patients" for [...]

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Source: Edmonton Journal

By Richard Foot

April 9,2010

Medical marijuana supporters hope N.S. ruling sets precedent

HALIFAX — Advocates of medical marijuana are hailing a landmark Nova Scotia court ruling, hoping it leads the way to taxpayer-funded pot supplies for low-income patients across Canada. [...]

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Source: The Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times

By Jim Mosher

April 9,2010

Marijuana Myths Abound

Marijuana, not to put too fine a point on it, is illegal. Its possession and use is against the law. People used to go to jail for possessing small quantities of cannabis. That’s rarely the case these days, at least in Canada; the United States is a different kettle of fish where the [...]

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Source: The Chronicle Herald

By Laura Fraser

April 8,2010

Medical marijuana user seeks tax refund

A Prospect man hopes the Canada Revenue Agency will grant him a tax refund on medical marijuana he bought from the black market, saying the drugs provided by Ottawa are second-rate [...]

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Source: CBC News

April 6,2010

Tax claim for pot from black market

A Nova Scotia man who buys medical marijuana from drug dealers says it should be tax deductible because the government-supplied drug is poor quality. Tom McMullin, 45, has [...]

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Source: TheStar.com

By Megan Ogilvie

April 5,2010

Medical marijuana compassion clubs face new scrutiny

In the video, plainclothes officers chase a patron into a storefront doorway. One man is pushed face-first to the ground and handcuffed. Another patron is knocked down as two officers rush past. Some carry nightclubs. One officer appears to slap a patron twice on the head. [...]

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Source: Cannabis News / The Chronicle Herald

By Jeffrey Simpson

April 2,2010

Justice Minister Mulls Pot Penalties

A legal decision ordering the province to pay for a woman’s pot has Justice Minister Ross Landry musing about the merits of decriminalization. Landry suggested to reporters at Province House on Thursday that his department will probably eventually discuss whether prosecuting someone for possessing a small amount of marijuana is a good use of resources. “We have [...]

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Source: Cannabis News / The Chronicle Herald

By Beverley Ware

April 1,2010

NS Must Pay For Woman’s Medical Marijuana, Judge Rules

The province has been ordered to pay for the medical marijuana used by a woman who is on social assistance. In a decision released this afternoon, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has ordered the Department of Community Services to pay for Sally Campbell’s prescription pot. She suffers from a number of ailments and has a certificate [...]

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Source: Chilliwack Times

By Tyler Olsen

March 30,2010

Pot Fines Worth $763,080 To City

The City of Chilliwack may not be making money off of marijuana, but its five-year-old fine and fee scheme has stemmed the costs associated with pot grow-ops. The city has collected three-quarters of a million dollars in fees and fines since it introduced an anti-marijuana-growing bylaw in 2004. The bylaw was called the toughest such legislation when [...]

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Source: Cannabis News

March 30,2010

Harper’s YouTube Comments Off Base On Marijuana

A Stephen Harper fan and supporter, I applaud his foray into new media on YouTube last week answering a selection chosen by Google/YouTube producers from 1.800-odd questions pre-submitted by the online video service’s users. However, I disagree with the prime minister’s take on the dominant topic addressed – marijuana legalization – which [...]

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Source: Canada.com

By Marcel Tetraulte

March 30,2010

Pot legalization crusader released from jail

A woman who spent months in jail fighting Canada’s pot laws has been released after being found guilty of growing and trafficking marijuana. Edith Noreen Evers, founder of the North Island Compassion Club, was sentenced to time served after spending a total of about five months in pre-trial custody, some of it in hospital, as her [...]

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Source: Richmond News

By Danielle Aldcorn

March 26,2010

Marijuana far from harmless

What do you know about delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol? If you are the parent of a child who is 12 years old or older you might want to get familiar with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; TCH for short. TCH is the main active chemical in marijuana. As a parent reading this you are probably thinking one of two things; [...]

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Source: The Province

By Andy Ivens

March 26,2010

Canadians 'ahead of politicians' on marijuana laws

If Californians vote to legalize, Canada unlikely to follow suit, say two MPs

Canadians are ahead of their federal politicians on the issue of liberalizing marijuana laws, according to two high-profile lawmakers from B.C. [...]

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Source: Libby Davies

By Libby Davies

March 25,2010

Time to rethink Canada's Drug Strategy - Libby's letter to the Minister of Justice

I write to draw your attention to the recent study from the Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI): Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence: Evidence from a Scientific Reviewa comprehensive study of existing English scientific evaluations on the impact of drug law enforcement on related violence. The study concludes [...]

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Source: The Province

By David Seymour

March 23,2010

Time to kill the sacred cow of pot prohibition

Seventeen per cent of Canadians report having used cannabis in the past year, despite it being illegal. Prohibition, it seems, is hardly stopping people from using cannabis. For perspective, [...]

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Source: Cannabis News.org

By Steve Bartlett

March 20,2010

No Weed To Succeed

Don’t Park Your Life ‘At the End of a Marijuana Cigarette,’ Ignatieff Tells Mount Pearl Students After encouraging O’Donel High students to vote and help create a better country, it was Michael Ignatieff’s reply to a young man’s question about legalizing marijuana that drew the loudest and longest applause. “If I had [...]

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Source: The Xaverian Weekly

By Jimmy Thomson and Devanne O'Brien

March 18,2010

What’s the current legal status of marijuana in Canada?

As one of the country's foremost marijuana legalization activists, Dana Larsen knows the score when it comes to pot laws in Canada. He's been involved in the marijuana debate [...]

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Source: The Globe and Mail

By Jane Taber

March 16,2010

Will Stephen Harper's YouTube interview go to pot?

Stephen Harper waltzed through his first interview gig on YouTube on Tuesday and along the way he gave a thumbs-up to the seal hunt and the crackdown on “guns, gangs and drugs” and a firm thumbs-down to legalizing pot. “The reason drugs are illegal is because they are bad,” the prime minister said. “And even if these [...]

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Source: Martlet.ca

By Bruce Dean

March 4,2010

Marijuana masses meet at Vic Cannabis Convention

The smell of sweet skunk and sounds of cannabis coughing were tell-tale clues for the location of the 11th-annual Victoria Cannabis Convention. Many members of Victoria’s cannabis community gathered this past Sunday, Feb. 28, in UVic’s David Strong Building, to celebrate and educate people about marijuana’s benefits. The [...]

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Source: A Channel News

March 4,2010

VicPD Officer Ordered to Stay Quiet

VICTORIA - The BC Civil Liberties Association has filed a complaint against the Victoria Police Department for muzzling one of its officers [...]

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Source: Northumberland News

By Bill Tremblay

February 25,2010

Lobby Group Will Run Vapour Lounge At Event Campbellford — A group of east Northumberland residents will help run Canada’s first medical marijuana expo. Medicinal Awareness ( MA ), a lobby group for medicinal marijuana, will operate the vapour lounge at the ‘Treating Yourself Expo’ at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from July 16-18. [...]

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Source: Global News

By Steven Edwards

February 24,2010

UN watchdog takes aim at Canada's medical marijuana program

UNITED NATIONS — Justice Minister Robert Nicholson said Wednesday the government’s medical marijuana regulations are under review after the UN’s drugs watchdog warned Canada needs to tighten up the system. [...]

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Source: Toronto Sun

By Alan Shanoff

February 21,2010

Electricity, marijuana and the law - The real dope on power use

The Real Dope on Power Use Homeowners have a reasonable expectation of privacy over information concerning most activities that take place in their homes. Therefore, absent a search warrant or a potential emergency situation, police aren’t entitled to enter a home to discover the activities taking place. But what about electrical consumption patterns? Do homeowners have a reasonable [...]

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Source: Cannabis News

February 17,2010

Medical Marijuana Prescriptions Being Stymied

Biased policies against medical marijuana by Saskatchewan’s governing body of medical practitioners are deterring doctors from granting prescriptions, say medicinal pot proponents. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan’s policy doesn’t prohibit doctors from prescribing marijuana, but the policy states the college is uncertain of the risks and benefits because evidence of marijuana’s advantages is [...]

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Source: Vancouver Sun

By Kim Bolan

February 12,2010

RCMP study cites 70 cases of abuse of medical marijuana licences

An RCMP review of medical marijuana licences found 70 cases across the country of holders violating the terms of their licence agreements. The 2009 report said that in 40 of the cases, those with permits for medical pot production were trafficking excess marijuana to make a profit, RCMP Cpl. Dan Weatherby said Thursday. Weatherby [...]

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Source: Eastern Edition CountryGuide

February 9,2010

B.C. Alzheimer's study finds marijuana no help

A new University of British Columbia study suggests the research effort now devoted to medical marijuana as therapeutic treatment for cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer’s may be better directed elsewhere. Scientists had hoped to confirm previous studies that pointed to a possible use for medical marijuana in treating Alzheimer’s disease, according to UBC psychiatry professor Dr. [...]

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Source: Libby Davies

February 7,2010

Cannabis Beneficial for Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Study Finds

A systematic review conducted by The Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation found that five of six controlled trials reported a reduction in spasticity and an improvement in mobility amongst multiple sclerosis patients using cannabis extracts. The two researchers, Shaheen Lakhan and Marie Rowland from the Los Angeles-based foundation, searched for trials evaluating cannabis extracts. Specifically [...]

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February 4,2010

Libby Speaking out on Medical Marijuana - Health Canada Must Consult With Stakeholders

Thank you for your August 2009 letter in response to my call for a full public review of the Canada’s Marijuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR). In your letter, you outline your plan to amend the MMAR [...]

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Source: Maple Ridge News.com

February 4,2010

Growing Pot In The B.C. Heartland

Somewhere in a quiet corner of Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows, a cannabis crop is being harvested right now, legally. The half-dozen or so known local growers are a select bunch of 4,869 people in Canada authorized to possess the narcotic plant under Marihuana Medical Access Regulations. “Cannabis isn’t for everybody, but patients are [...]

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Source: Cannabis News

January 29,2010

Growing Pot In The B.C. Heartland

Documentary Looks At The Impact Of The Marijuana Industry On A Small-Town Economy Marijuana is believed to be a $20 billion industry in Canada. But most discussion about the drug is centered around the moral issue of whether to legalize it or not. Lionel Goddard thought it was high time somebody looked at marijuana [...]

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Source: CBC Documentaries

January 28,2010

CannaBiz

Canada's $20 billion-dollar marijuana industry is now at a violent crossroads between crime and commerce. Impossible to police, yet steadily gaining public acceptance, the cannabis industry is now so vast and vital to Canada's national economy that it can no longer be ignored. [...]

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Source: CBC Documentaries

January 28,2010

Fact Sheet: Marijuana in Canada

Marijuana is estimated to be a $19-21 billion dollar industry in Canada. No one knows for sure. - Various sources including US Drug Enforcement Agency & Stephen Easton, SFU Economist BC's annual marijuana crop, if valued at retail street prices and sold by the cigarette, is worth over $7 billion [...]

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Source: Cowichan Valley Citizen

December 18,2009

RCMP 'Green Team' busts pot grow-ops

Crime statistics from 2008 to 2009 were relatively consistent, Inspector Kevin Hewco reported at meetings of two local councils this week. “There’s nothing surprising here to us,” the North Cowichan/ Duncan detachment commander told North Cowichan Council. “We do try to look for trends.” The North Cowichan/ Duncan detachment commander spoke to Duncan City [...]

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Source: The Windsor Star

By Craig Pearson

January 28,2010

Medical marijuana user in fear of law

“Sarah” puts her lips to the vapour-filled bag, inhaling medicine and worry in one intoxicating breath. The 52-year-old Windsor woman, who did not want her real name used, is a Health Canada-approved medical marijuana user. Or, at least, she used to be. Right now she lives in limbo, largely shutting herself in at home [...]

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Source: The Toronto Sun

By Tom Godfrey

December 31, 2009

Businessman Sees Pot-ential Growth

Hopes to Compete With Government in Medical Marijuana Business A licensed B.C. pot grower was in Toronto yesterday trying to take a bite out of Health Canada’s monopoly on medicinal marijuana. Sam Mellace, 56, formerly of Toronto, is allowed to grow 292 plants, which he does in a Racle Valley, B.C. “industrial-style” operation that yields about seven [...]

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Source: The Globe and Mail

By Robert Matas

December 30, 2009

B.C. Man Gets Licence for Record Number of Marijuana

A B.C. resident has received a Health Canada licence to possess 60 grams of marijuana for daily medical use, allowing him to legally grow as many as 292 marijuana plants. The licence provides for possibly the largest quantity ever to be legalized in Canada, say lawyers in Vancouver and Toronto who have been involved in high [...]

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Source: GuelphMercury.com

By Thana Dharmarajah

December 29, 2009

Guelph cannabis club a smoking ‘business’

GUELPH – It’s a controversial operation but quietly so. While it promotes itself and its workings via the internet, it guards its location closely. Even when you’ve arrived at the lobby of the downtown building where it’s situated – for now at least – only a simple sign marks its presence. White plastic letters on a [...]

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Source: Edmonton Journal

By Mike Mcintyre

December 22, 2009

Calgary marijuana crusader escapes jail time for trafficking

A Manitoba judge has cut a major break to a medical marijuana crusader found guilty of trafficking pot across Canada. Grant Krieger received a suspended sentence with nine months of probation Monday — a far cry from the jail sentence he feared he might receive and predicted would kill him. “Mr. Krieger is not [...]

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Source: CalgarySun.com

By Mindelle Jacobs

December 18, 2009

Shedding some light on our pot laws

The Conservative government and the Liberal-dominated Senate may find this a buzz-kill but a drug expert says neither of their approaches to prosecuting pot producers makes sense. Earlier this year, MPs passed a drug bill that included a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail for growing as few as five pot plants. Drug reform [...]

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Source: The Chronical Hearald.ca Nova Scotia

By Mary Ellen MacIntyretruro Bureau

December 16, 2009

Police raid pot advocate’s home

The Amherst-area man who believes marijuana cures cancer says he is seeking political refuge in Europe. In a video on his Phoenix Tears website, Rick Simpson said police raided his home Nov. 25 and will charge him in connection with items they seized. “If I return home, I will be arrested and put in jail without bail [...]

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Source: The Victoria Times Colonist

By Joanne Hatherly

December 6, 2009

Marijuana 'baker' hoping for a day in court

Pot Activist Admits His Kitchen Isn’t Authorized By Health Canada A Victoria marijuana advocate is ready for a court fight, but he may not get one. An apartment-based marijuana “bakery” that was raided by police on Thursday is linked to the Cannabis Buyers Club of Canada ( CBCC ), founded by marijuana advocate Ted Smith. Whether charges [...]

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Source: The Victoria Times Colonist

December 4, 2009

Revised crime bill to go easier on pot growers

For the second time this fall, a committee of the Liberal-dominated Senate has amended a Conservative law-and-order bill, eliminating an element that would automatically send marijuana growers to jail for at least six months if they’re caught with as few as five plants. The committee altered the controversial bill yesterday to retain a judge’s discretion when [...]

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November 25, 2009

Rick Simpson's House Busted Again

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Source: Grand Forks Gazette

Author: Sheila Gardezi

November 25, 2009

Citizen presents petition on marijuana issue

Local resident Sylvia Treptow presented the mayor with a petition signed by 152 residents opposed to discussing the medical marijuana issue at the city council table. Treptow appeared at the Nov. 16 meeting of council to present the document which has been available at Work ‘n’Play and Yaky Jacquie’s for the past few months. “The citizens want [...]

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Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)

Author: Dean Beeby, Canadian Press

November 2, 2009

Feds Demand Users Prepay for Their Pot

OTTAWA — Health Canada is getting tough with patients who use government-certified medical marijuana, demanding full payment in advance before shipping the weed. The move, effective Nov. 30, is designed to halt the rising number of accounts in arrears — and force more patients to pay off old debts that now total [...]

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Source: Chilliwack Times

Author: Paul J. Henderson

October 27, 2009

City Gains Unusual Pot Ally

The threat to public safety from an unknown number of medical marijuana grow operations in Chilliwack prompted Mayor Sharon Gaetz to write a letter to the federal minister of health asking for a meeting. But the issue has also garnered support from what might be considered an unusual corner. The Vancouver Foresight Society ( VFS ), a [...]

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Source: London Free Press

Author: Kathleen Harris

October 25, 2009

Ontario Leads in Legalized Pot Use

OTTAWA — The number of Canadians legally permitted to use pot as medicine has tripled during the last three years since the Conservatives took power. At last official count by Health Canada this past June, 4,029 people were authorized to possess cannabis under Marijuana Medical Access Regulations, 2,841 were allowed to grow their own plants and [...]

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Source: Herald-Tribune

Author: Kathleen Harris

October 26, 2009

Legal pot smokers growing in number across Canada

OTTAWA - The number of Canadians legally permitted to use pot as medicine has tripled in the past three years since the Conservatives took power. At last official count by Health Canada this past June, 4,029 people were authorized to possess cannabis under Marijuana Medical Access Regulations, 2,841 [...]

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Source: Times Coloniste

Author: Bill Cleverley

October 25, 2009

Pot-Activist Councillor Passing the Bong

After 10 Years, Philippe Lucas Leaving Medical-Marijuana Supplier Aside from the pungent odour of fresh marijuana in the air, the Vancouver Island Compassion Society’s Cormorant Street office has the feel of any other medical clinic. “I’ve been doing this for so long I don’t even notice it any more,” says Philippe Lucas, of the [...]

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Source: Times Colonist

Author: Bill Cleverley

October 25, 2009

Drug good for some, bad for others

The latest Visions magazine featuring a guest editorial by Victoria councillor and medicinal-marijuana activist Philippe Lucas is no stoner’s guide to getting high. Instead the magazine, B.C.’s mental health and addictions journal published by B.C. Partners for Mental Health and Addictions, presents an unvarnished view of some of the pros and cons of marijuana use, including [...]

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Source: The Concordian

By Ioana Vanessa Bezsman

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

10 years of dealing pot

The Marijuana Party of Canada’s founder was on hand to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of medical marijuana distribution in Montreal. The past 10 years have been a bit of an uphill battle, Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice said. Medical marijuana is available to members of Montreal’s Compassion Centre where the celebration, hosted by two original founders of the movement, [...]

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Source: Chronicle Herald (CN NS)

By Dan Arsenault

Friday, October 2, 2009

Weeding Through Government Red Tape

Marijuana-Use Advocate Says Health Canada Exemptions Not Enough to Really Help People in Need of Pain Control A SERIOUS BACK AND NECK injury at work many years ago left him in chronic pain, and Harrietsfield’s John Cook eventually found that marijuana provided the best relief. The married, 44-year-old father of two now smokes from five to [...]

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Source: Cannabis Culture

By Jeremiah Vandermeer

Thursday, September 30, 2009

Remembering Medical Marijuana User Marilyn Holsten

There shouldn't have been an issue about her using medical marijuana,” MP Libby Davies said. “The government had given her the permit and [...]

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Source: Simcoe Reformer, The (CN ON)

By Daniel Pearce

Monday, September 28, 2009

Farmer Goes To Pot

From the outside, the farm looks like any other in the tobacco belt. The side windows on the old-style wooden kilns are open. This year’s crop is visible, hanging upside down and turning yellow. The only clue that something is amiss is the greenhouse, its contents hidden by plastic sheets put up on the inside. A [...]

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Source: View Magazine (Hamilton, CN ON)

By Michael Terry

Friday, September 11, 2009

Marijuana : Time To Study The Long Term Effects

As part of the Conservative minority government’s anti-drug strategy, announced in 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper quietly announced through a press release that $550,000 will be used to examine a potential link between marijuana use and the development of schizophrenia. This style of political maneuvering has become commonplace during Harper’s reign. He takes a relatively small [...]

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Source: Sentinel, The (UK)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Schizophrenia link to cannabis denied

A STUDY by North Staffordshire academics has rejected a link between smoking cannabis and an increase in mental illness. The research found there were no rises in cases of schizophrenia or psychoses diagnosed in the UK over nine years, during which the use of the drug had grown substantially. Pro-cannabis campaigners seized on the results as supporting [...]

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Source: The Vancouver Sun

August 29, 2009

Salmon Arm officials criticized for evicting marijuana grower

Human Rights Tribunal Rules City Discriminated Against Disabled Man Salmon Arm city officials have been rapped on the knuckles for kicking a man out of his home for more than two years because he was growing marijuana — even though they knew it was for medicinal use. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the city discriminated [...]

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Source: CBC News.ca

August 17, 2009

Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment: the Canadian experience

Medical marijuana is grown under contract for Health Canada by Prairie Plant Systems. ... This time, they said the charges violated Parker's charter rights. .... Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of ... for how much the global economy will grow in 2010 by a full percentage point,[...]

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Source: The Canadian Press

July 6 2009, 6:30

A court decision that effectively loosens Ottawa’s tight grip on access to medical marijuana has been upheld by the Federal Court of Appeal.

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Source: Ottawa Sun

By The Canadian Press

June 26, 2009, 4:12pm

A 50-year-old Quebecer who had a Health Canada permit to grow medicinal cannabis to ease his pain has received a one-year suspended jail sentence.

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Source: Langley Times (CN BC)

June 9, 2009, 6:30

A Langley man with a Health Canada licence to grow marijuana was busted by the RCMP’s green team for stealing hydro and for growing more plants than he was allowed to.

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Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU)

May 29, 2009, 6:04

New Medical Pot Rule A Bummer, Advocates Say

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May 27 2009 02:05:36 PM

by Jordana Huber, Canwest News Service.

New Medical Marijuana Rules Too Strict, Canadian Users Say New federal regulations allowing designated medical marijuana producers to grow cannabis for two approved users of marijuana -- up from one -- are a "slap in the face," advocates said Tuesday.

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June 18, 2008

Source: Ottawa Citizen

Medical marijuana could help our war-stressed soldiers.

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Date: October 5, 2006

Source: Reuters

Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer's - U.S. study

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