| Nov 23, 2008 | Budding Wealth in the Weed Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients now that the Federal Court of Appeal has struck down the government's monopoly on supplying medical marijuana.
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| Nov 20, 2008 | Quantity Of Medical Pot At Home Is Being Looked Into A Port Coquitlam home was broken into Thursday afternoon in an apparent grow rip attempt.... The home is a licensed medicinal marijuana operation but Gresiuk said the regulations are stringent on how many plants can be grown. She said investigators would be checking to make sure those rules had been followed.
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| Nov 15, 2008 | A Bright Green Spot in the Economy With Courts Striking Down the Government's Monopoly on Supplying Medical Marijuana, Private Growers ...Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients.
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| Oct 29, 2008 | Stop Harassing Medical Pot Users On Monday, the Federal Court of Appeal refused to entertain a government challenge to January's Sfetkopoulos decision, in which Justice Barry Strayer of the federal court's trial division struck down the rule that a licenced grower of medical marijuana can only have one customer. "We're not persuaded [Justice Strayer] committed any error," said Justice John Evans on behalf of the three-member appeal panel, endorsing their colleague's ruling with unusual haste.
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| Oct 25, 2008 | Fed Pot Policy Panned ORONTO -- It's a marijuana "monopoly" that deserves to go up in smoke, activists say.
Lawyers representing a group of 30 medicinal marijuana users will be in court Monday to fight the federal government's bid to keep control of large-scale medicinal marijuana distribution in Canada.
Activists say the government-issued pot is weak.
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| Oct 22, 2008 | Cops To Keep Eye On Pot-Dealing Cafe Quebec City police warn they will closely monitor the activities of a cafe that plans to sell marijuana.
The operators of Montreal's Compassion Club say they will open a second shop today in the provincial capital to respond to growing demand for "medicinal" marijuana.
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| Oct 7, 2008 | Just Don't Call It Pot Today, Cannasat's stock is stuck at 20=A2, having barely budged since an initial pop - and equally prompt retreat - following its IPO. Even though the company has invested almost $10 million in research and is the only firm in Canada devoted to the development of cannabinoid drugs, it has, in recent months, been preoccupied with scrubbing its profile of any connections to marijuana.
It has sold off its interests in cultivating and distributing medical pot. It has pumped up its board with distinguished members of the Canadian medical establishment, and dropped the word marijuana from its lexicon, instead describing its research in terms of specific molecules and chemical reactions in the brain.
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| Oct 3, 2008 | People With AIDS Forced to Break Law to Ease Pain Although fewer than 3,000 Canadians are licensed to use medical marijuana, it's estimated that between 400,000 and one million people in the country use cannabis as medication.
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| Sep 27, 2008 | NS: Maccan's Marijuana Maverick Enters Race AMHERST - The marijuana maverick is back to take a second crack at becoming MP for Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley.
Rick Simpson, the Maccan man who believes he has found the cure for cancer in a marijuana paste he calls hemp oil, said Friday that he filed the necessary paperwork with the riding's returning officer earlier this week.
"I'm running to get my message out," Mr. Simpson said. "I want to see lives saved and get the country on its feet and straightened out. Hemp is the answer to all our problems."
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| Sep 19, 2008 | Island Pot Could Be Canada's Supply Horticulturist Eric Nash and his partner Wendy Little operate Island Harvest in the Cowichan Valley, which they say is Canada's first and only production facility of certified organic medical marijuana.
Their operation is licensed and approved by Health Canada, and they have been supplying two patients with marijuana who are registered with the Health Canada program authorizing use of the drug for certain medical conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord disease and cancer.
Now they are applying for a contract to be a major supplier of marijuana for some of the 2,500 people across the country who are enrolled in the Health Canada program.
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| Sep 18, 2008 | Green With Empathy Every morning when Boris Saint-Maurice shows up for work he breaks the law. Saint-Maurice is the owner of the Compassion Club on the corner of Rachel and Coloniale - a store that sells marijuana illegally to people who can demonstrate a medical need for the drug. He has been arrested for drug trafficking numerous times.
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| Sep 12, 2008 | Medical Marijuana Users Face Continued Uncertainty Part III of a four-part series on the medical use of marijuana - Although Fewer Than 3,000 Canadians Are Licensed To Use Medical Marijuana, It's Estimated That Between 400,000 And One Million People In The Country Use Cannabis As Medication. The Following Is The Third In A Series Of Articles About The Use Of Marijuana To Treat Medical Conditions.
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| Sep 3, 2008 | 'Say No' To Canine Cannabis - Vet Keep your dogs away from pot.
That's the message to all pet owners from an emergency veterinarian..... Symptoms of an affected dog include sleepiness, extreme sensitivity to light and motion, low heart rate, low blood pressure and the dog urinating on itself, or dribbling urine.
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| Aug 24, 2008 | Police Stop 'Pretty Unusual' For Marijuana Exemptee Derek Pedro's first trip to Hempfest was a "nerve wracking" one.
He says Ontario Provincial Police asked him and Alison Myrden, both federal medical marijuana exemptees, to get out of their truck during a spot check Wednesday.
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| Aug 20, 2008 | Is Society Benefiting From The War On Pot? By all accounts, Mike McCormick minded his own business and never hurt another soul.
He lived off the land, hunting, digging clams and cutting his own firewood. And he grew pot. Lots and lots of pot. In fact, when police stumbled across McCormick's shack in the woods behind his house, there were 243 plants growing inside it. ...Other than lawyers, who benefits from criminalizing pot smokers?
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| Aug 13, 2008 | Technical Breech' Of Pot Law Not Worth Prosecuting: Crown ederal Crown attorney Clayton Conlan withdrew all drug charges Tuesday against a Meaford man who says he uses marijuana medicinally and against the man's wife because prosecuting the charges "would not be in the public interest."
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| Aug 9, 2008 | Drug Trafficker Has Big Heart AMHERST - A drug trafficker who believes he's found the cure for cancer in marijuana wants his $2,000 fine to go to a good cause.
"Since I am paying this fine for the heinous crime of saving lives, I think I should have a say as to where the money goes," Rick Simpson said in a July 27 letter sent to officials at the Justice Centre in Amherst. Mr. Simpson made the letter public Friday.
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| Aug 5, 2008 | Right to Puff Sparks Tiff The complaint states that the government has failed to "amend legislation to accommodate licensed medical marijuana users" because the club's liquor licence could be suspended if someone was caught smoking marijuana on the premises -- even if they have a medicinal licence.
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| Jul 31, 2008 | Outlaw Compassion Paul Spendlove, media relations officer for Health Canada, says no matter what benefits they may provide to the sick, "Compassion clubs are unregulated and have always operated outside Canadian laws. These clubs have no legal authority to provide access or to produce and distribute marijuana."
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| Jul 29, 2008 | Restaurateur Goes to Court Over Human Rights Ruling o A Burlington restaurant owner is going to court to overturn a human rights complaint over his refusal to allow a patron with a medical marijuana licence to smoke on his property.
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