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The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously ruled that medical marijuana users have the constitutional right to be able to consume edible medical marijuana products, such as cannabis oils, teas and brownies.
The ruling, which takes effect immediately, is already having an impact on those who rely on cannabis extracts and edibles to treat medical conditions.
"Last night, patients across Canada fell asleep as criminals for making cannabis tea with their otherwise lawfully possessed cannabis," said Kirk Tousaw, the B.C lawyer who argued for the federal government's ban to be removed. "This morning those patients are no longer criminals."
Tousaw represents Owen Smith, a Victoria man and pot baker for the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, whose arrest in 2009 sparked the legal case.
Smith was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and unlawful possession of marijuana.
A British Columbia trial judge initially acquitted him. A B.C. Appeal Court also ruled in Smith's favour
The federal government then...
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