Pot Legal In Canada By July

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cptweed

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Yep here is an update. They basically have till November is all.

http://www.cannabisculture.com

Ontario’s highest court will review a landmark decision in November which deals with Canada’s troubled medical marijuana program and the legalization of the production and possession of pot.

Matthew Mernagh, a frail-looking St. Catharines man with myriad health problems, two months ago scored an enormous victory when Justice Donald Taliano ruled the marijuana program unconstitutional. The judge gave Ottawa until middle of this month to repair the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) or pot would be effectively legalized in Ontario.

Doctors’ “overwhelming refusal to participate in the medicinal marijuana program completely undermines the effectiveness of the program,” Taliano wrote in his ruling.

The mid-July deadline was recently extended when federal government lawyer Kevin Wilson successfully argued the need for the current pot laws and regulations to stay in place until Ontario’s highest court could hear the appeal, likely in November. In granting the deadline extension, Court of Appeal Justice Robert Blair noted:

“The practical effect of the decision if the suspension were permitted to expire on July 14 would be to legalize marijuana production in Ontario, if not across Canada.”

In an interview, Wilson said the regulations are not at fault, “it’s the decisions of the individual doctors.”

Toronto law professor Alan Young, who has fought some major marijuana court cases, described Mernagh’s case as a difficult one.

“It’s about the doctors, it’s not about the government,” he said. “There is no constitutional rights in having a doctor properly educated. We all knew that doctors would be reluctant.

“To what extent is the government complicit in the reluctance of doctors to participate. That’s the issue,” he added.

Mernagh’s lawyer Paul Lewin has told court there are about 400,000 Canadians using marijuana for “therapeutic purposes” — including people suffering from HIV, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

The number of licensed medical marijuana users is far lower than Lewin’s statistics. In the first 10 months of last year, Health Canada received 7,385 applications for medical pot licences and granted them to 4,650 people.

The federal government, meanwhile, has announced that medicinal marijuana users will be prohibited from growing their own weed and will have to obtain the drug from licensed, commercial producers under a new national marijuana supply program.
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virulient

virulient

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"National Marijuana Supply Program"

Idk if, in reality, that's going to be good or bad for canada......but that is my favorite program name OF ALL TIME! :joint:
 
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RichardHUR

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thats going to be complete shit, man! They supply they have now is just that, complete shit. If they were to remove the private grower aspect of it, they would basically make the whole program fucking useless - I probably wouldn't even bother getting my license renewed if that was the case - would just have to grow my shit illegally or something pathetic.
 
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cptweed

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RichardHUR said:
thats going to be complete shit, man! They supply they have now is just that, complete shit. If they were to remove the private grower aspect of it, they would basically make the whole program fucking useless - I probably wouldn't even bother getting my license renewed if that was the case - would just have to grow my shit illegally or something pathetic.
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You must not have been following the story... The judge ruled parts of Canada's drug laws unconstitutional. He said he would have to make it legal to cultivate and posses marijuana for everyone so that the people that need it medically can get it. If the doctors wont see them then they would have to resort to growing it themselves the judge said.
 
Josh1r

Josh1r

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Bambi's mother never died. Because Bambi didn't exist. There's something called reality and some people aren't living in it..
There is a slight snow flakes chance in hell that Marijuana become's legal to possess, purchase and cultivate without a license
in Canada in our Lifetimes but very unlikely IMO.. The truth is, whats good for the government isn't good for us. What will probably end up happening
is exactly what they are saying will happen. Growing will be limited to health Canada approved cultivators, they will most likely
be a tight clic with lots of money with deep rooted connections in the Health Canada Ottawa office. Trust me when I say it's all
about making $$.. With this current amount of attention someone has devised a "better" plan that will most definitely be implemented
without a vote by Anyone who is a licensed CANADIAN IMO.. Because bankers, co-operate owners, politicians, law makers, high
ranking military personnel and the media run the show. If your not apart of the clic, you will be left standing outside in the cold in a line
up come january 2015 waiting for your local wal-mart Marijuana dispenser to open.. Either that.. Or follow your own law :)

Nothing I wrote here is factual just me ranting. Read and comment if you will, feel free to agree or oppose. Input is more then welcome. Cheers bongsmilie
 
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