Medical marijuana case wraps up in Federal Court
VANCOUVER — Medical marijuana users’ fight to continue growing their own plants is now in the hands of a Federal Court judge after lawyers delivered their final arguments in Vancouver late last week.
New rules that force patients to purchase medical marijuana from licensed commercial growers ensure they are supplied with safe, good quality marijuana that is grown by industry producers who are subject to stringent standards and government oversight, federal lawyers told the court.
But lawyers for the plaintiffs argued the new rules are overly restrictive and by making marijuana unaffordable for their clients — all B.C. patients — the regulations infringe their rights to liberty and security under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In court documents filed last week, the plaintiffs quoted Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose as having told media in late April: “Marijuana is not medicine.”
For Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer for the plaintiffs,...
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