**new mmar laws!!**

Courtesy of @buckets for the link in another thread.

No more authorization to possess licenses or personal production licenses after March 31/2014.

As of September 30th 2013, you may not re-new your authorization to possess or personal production license.

As of September 30th 2013 you also may not be able to change your address.

From a quick read, pharmacies will be handling the distribution of things. You will no longer need to apply to Health Canada for a MMAR.

I believe they may be taking a page from the U.S laws and let it be a doctors note/script.

This is such crap that they are pulling this card, the arguing points for Health Canada are that neighbor hoods are not safe, only 13% of the now almost 20,000 MMAR holders are buying from them.


I recommend ladies/gents, you grow the hell out of your scripts and hang tight to your product.

This is 1 step backwards for alot of people that need this program.

http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012/2012-12-15/html/reg4-eng.html

Thank you for the info I am part of a club in Toronto and this link was posted,and yes was a mixed up system we have in Canada http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1090063/harper-government-announces-proposed-new-marihuana-for-medical-purposes-regulations?relation=org

I was just about to send my forms to get my liscense. Should I continue with that or what?
This saddens me

I would. At least you'll have a full year to enjoy your liscense. The news is with the new laws they're only going to allow doctors to prescribe 5 grams a day period. What a joke. I'm talking in 2014. Man, some big lawsuits are going to happen!

im trying to harvest 50lbs by then.

I'm so fucking pissed about this change shit ^^^^ and ya you got it man I'm growing as much as possible and burying it this is going to backfire on harper dopey little prick I tell you when he's done and everyone forgot about him I'm gonna headbutt his face so hard we are moving bsckwards of the USA it ridiculas I hope B.C. gets there province legal cuz that's the first place I'm going

And my personal license renewal is aug28 close one

ya real lucky, im march and i just sent my renewal last week

they cant keep up mexicans will do it if we cant and quality will go down. they will stuff every gas tank of every auto to us/can.

God damn what a disappointment. Just when things were looking good they start downhill.
Wondering if I should just stay underground with all this shit

It's the risk you take. I'd like to see some court challenges and maybe even some new federal parties be created because of this. As well as massive summer outdoor grows. Blessings to everyone who does that!

Underground1337 said:

God damn what a disappointment. Just when things were looking good they start downhill.
Wondering if I should just stay underground with all this shit

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a judge is gona rip hc apart. the plot will thicken with thousands of court battles

I welcome that judge doing so Jessica D. That health minister's on crack! Keep filing law suits Canada and at least write to the Health Minister to complain. Please do something or they will walk all over us.

. notice mexicans in harvest season in canada? yup. 10 min boat ride yup. airboat run yr around vs boat that gets taken out of water by dec lol hmm they r creating a war rising prices. the cartels win hands down with sick ppl losing. they run the borders as it is but it is gona explode

Not to be condescending, but is anyone aware of Matt Mernagh and his case before the Court of Appeal? He has already had a decision in which the Judge has ruled accessing the medical program unconstitutional. The feds are appealing, the appeal courts decision is due before year end (I think) If the courts rule in favour of Matt, pot will effectively be legal.

These new proposed regulations still do not address the fact that doctors do not wish to be the gatekeepers, and most are not willing to sign the forms. This was the reason the judge deemed the system unconstitutional.

Thanks Redi Jedi: I wasn't aware of that court case. I sure hope the court of appeal rules in favor of Matt Mernagh. I wonder when he has his day in court with the appeal court and when the decision comes out. If HC loses, man, that would just be awesome for all of us including Matt! Thanks for the tip man.

I just went and did a bit of reading and I have heard about this Ontario case but didn't know the exact details. I copied the article from cannabis culture for anyone that is curious about this case.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Ontario Court of Appeal court dates have been chosen for R. v. Mernagh: the court ruling gutting Canada’s federal medical marijuana program and personal possession and cultivation laws is set to be heard March 5 and 6, 2012.
A small team of talented lawyers will descend on Osgoode Hall for two days to argue before three judges. Earlier this summer federal prosecutors won a reprieve on a 90 day marijuana legalization deadline. In exchange for a legal time, prosecutors were ordered to have their case ready by mid-November. Team Mernagh was given an option to chose the dates. These are their best dates.
Paul Lewin will represent Matthew Mernagh. Several interveners have called expressing interest in becoming positively involved. These community driven agencies will be sending lawyers who will seek to address the court as third parties. Given the scope of R. v. Mernagh having more than one lawyer working the appeal judges is important.
Should medicinal marijuana patient Matt Mernagh be allowed to grow his own cannabis without a Health Canada license? Mernagh argues he is unable to get his doctor to sign a Health Canada med pot application – allowing him to grow his own. Ontario Superior court judge D.J. Taliano concluded less than one half of a one percent of Canadian doctors have signed applications. Prosecutors argue the problem is not with the federal program, but with doctor’s.
Mernagh retorts federal government has tasked doctors as gatekeepers to a program they have had no input on. Canadian Medical Association has written Health Canada expressing concerns that have gone un-answered.
Justice Taliano ruled medicinal marijuana is not treatment of last resort. Canadians should not have to try a slew of pharmaceutical medications before choosing plant therapy. To cope with doctor unwillingness he suggests alternative therapy practitioners be allowed to sign Health Canada’s application. With no federal legal medical marijuana program accessible to sick Canadians, he determined Canada’s marijuana laws for personal cultivation and possession un-constitutional. Mernagh’s marijuana grow charge was squashed. He was granted an exemption from federal marijuana laws. Allowing him to grow marijuana legally.
Mernagh webcasts live from his legal marijuana grow room on Sunday nights at 9 pm est via Livestream. The show and previous shows are available on demand as reruns, or watch episodes of The Mernahuana Show

Can you see what Harpers doing? Make 6 plants = 6 month mandatory sentance with one hand. The other hand takes away our right to grow our own meds. While he has ahold of us with both hands.... He's giving it to us up the ass with $8 per gram. Thats $1800+ a month for my meds and I just can't afford it. Is this man sane? He really has started to act like a Dictator.
I am a very honourable and respected person in my community. My company provides a valuable service to people. I dont hurt anyone, never been in trouble with the law and pay a lot of taxes.
I have spent a lot of money and time getting my grow together. Now its about to be snatched away?
What are my options when my license expires?
1- grow illegally. Possibly end up in jail. Lose my house? Watch my 3 employees lose their jobs?
2-suffer. I refuse to eat pharm chemicals for my pain. The zombie inducing side effects are too much for me. So I am to live in pain?
i don't know what to do.

I recommend everyone go to this site

www.mmarcoalitionagainstrepeal.com

Health Canada gives us a licence to grow and we spend thousands of dollars in equipment, now the government says we can't. What do we do with all this equipment! We have to fight this.