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| Jun 11, 2015 |
Medical Pot Users Seek Class Action Against Health
Lawyers representing plaintiffs in a proposed class action, claiming Health Canada breached privacy rights and jeopardized the safety of medical marijuana users, will be seeking damages of up to $20,000 per person, a court in Halifax heard Wednesday. Federal Court Justice Michael Phelan is hearing a certification application for a proposed class action, put forward by medical marijuana users and growers across Canada, who were licensed under the previous federal medicinal marijuana program. The claim alleges that in November 2013 the department sent letters to about 40,000 people explaining changes to the federal medical marijuana access program, and because the return address on the envelopes clearly stated they came from the Health Canada medical marijuana program anyone who may have seem them knew the recipient was either licensed to possess or grow marijuana for medical purposes. |
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| Jun 11, 2015 |
Medical marijuana legal in all forms, Supreme Court rules
Medical marijuana patients will now be able to consume marijuana - and not just smoke it - as well as use other extracts and derivatives, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today. The unanimous ruling against the federal government expands the definition of medical marijuana beyond the "dried" form. |
| Jun 10, 2015 |
Vancouver, BC: Public Hearings On Marijuana Dispensaries Set To Begin
Public hearings begin Wednesday to help fine-tune Vancouver's plans to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries - and shape a policy that one advocate says will be copied by cities across Canada. Dana Larsen, director of the Vancouver Dispensary Society and operator of two dispensaries, noted the City of Victoria has already cited Vancouver as a model for policies it is developing as it grapples with the issue. "A lot of smaller cities don't have the resources to devote time and staff effort to analyzing this and figuring out what these rules should be," Mr. Larsen said in an interview on Tuesday. "They're going to copy whatever Vancouver does and tweak it a little bit for their own community." |
| Jun 10, 2015 |
Shambhala Leads World In Harm Reduction
But as the festival ballooned to over 11,000 ticket sales, so too did the festival's harm reduction strategy, which is now the most ambitious approach in North America, with over 40 trained ANKORS volunteers on the ground each year, alongside a harm reduction team of over 200. Now encompassing medical, security, outreach and sexual health services, the integrated approach is considered a best practice worldwide and has inspired interest from a number of other festivals. |
| May 4, 2015 |
Court to decide who can grow medical marijuana
Final arguments wrapped up Friday in a court challenge of the federal government's move to ban home growing of medical marijuana by doctor-approved users. A win by pro-pot advocates would blow a big hole in the new federal system imposed last spring that outlawed previously legal home grows and tried to force all patients to buy only from new commercial producers. Those companies will have the exclusive right to grow and sell if Ottawa prevails. |
| Apr 24, 2015 |
Pierre Claude Nolin, Speaker of the Senate, dead at 64
Nolin supported prison reform, the legalization of marijuana, more humanitarian immigration policies - all while working to reform the Senate Senator Nolin spearheaded the <a href="http://cannabislink.ca/gov/senatesumm.htm">2002 SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ILLEGAL DRUGS</a> |
| Mar 20, 2015 |
R. v. Smith in Supreme Court of Canada
On March 20, 2015, the top nine judges in Canada will spend an entire day discussing whether cannabis derivatives deserve legal status similar to that of cannabis. This will be the first time in history that the Supreme Court of Canada has heard arguments regarding medical cannabis and the regulatory schemes Health Canada has created to provide access to those in medical need. At the center of the trial stands Owen Smith, former head baker of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, backed by lawyer extraordinaire, Kirk Tousaw. |
| Feb 23, 2015 |
Constitutional challenge of Canada's medical marijuana laws begins in Vancouver
A constitutional challenge of Canada's new medical marijuana laws will hear from marijuana law experts from Holland, Israel and the U.S. when it begins Monday in Vancouver. "If we win the case, people will be allowed to continue to grow," said lawyer John Conroy, who is representing four medical marijuana patients. |
| Jan 15, 2015 |
Vancouver Medical Pot Stores Growing Like Weeds
...the more than 40 dispensaries in Vancouver are operating thanks to a fertile mixture including a legal grey area with federal legislation regarding medical marijuana distribution, and several related cases making their way through the courts. |