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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Canada: Veterans minister rejects soldier's push for meeting to discuss medical marijuana 🌿Canada: Veterans minister rejects soldier's push for meeting to discuss medical marijuana
OTTAWA -- Former soldiers who want timely access to medical marijuana say they are undeterred despite having been denied a meeting with Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O'Toole.
Retired corporal Clayton Goodwin, who represents a group known as Veterans for the Use of Medical Marijuana, was shut out of O'Toole's stakeholder meeting Tuesday at the Canadian War Museum.
A spokesperson for the minister said Veteran Affairs staff have spoken with Goodwin and are setting up a one-on-one meeting.
"There isn't a lot of blame to be placed on Veteran Affairs, they're working," Goodwin said.
"It's more that we need to work towards ending stigma and shame and get more voices in a room because I'm not aware if we're ever brought up in there."
Veteran Affairs data shows the number of ex-soldiers eligible for medical marijuana jumped to 601 in the last year, up from 116 the previous year.
Those veterans...
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