Canadaian Medicinal Marijuana NEWS Archives
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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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. [...]
FULL STORYSource: Libby Davies
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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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. [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYNovember 25, 2009
Rick Simpson's House Busted Again
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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, [...]
FULL STORYSource: Chronicle Herald (CN NS)
Copyright: 2009 The Halifax Herald Limited
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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: 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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: Simcoe Reformer, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2009 Sun Media
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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: View Magazine (Hamilton, CN ON)
Copyright: 2009 View Magazine
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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: Sentinel, The (UK)
Copyright: 2009 Northcliffe Electronic Publishing Ltd.
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 [...]
FULL STORYSource: The Vancouver Sun
Copyright: 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 [...]
Source: CBC News.ca
Copyright: CBC News
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,[...]
FULL STORYSource: The Canadian Press
Copyright: 2009 Langley Times
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.
FULL STORYSource: Langley Times (CN BC)
Copyright: 2009 Langley Times
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.
FULL STORYSource: Montreal Gazette (CN QU)
Copyright: 2009 Canwest Publishing Inc.
May 29, 2009, 6:04
New Medical Pot Rule A Bummer, Advocates Say
FULL STORYMay 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.
FULL STORYJune 18, 2008
Source: Ottawa Citizen
Medical marijuana could help our war-stressed soldiers.
FULL STORYDate: October 5, 2006
Source: Reuters
Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer's - U.S. study
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