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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Supreme Court of Canada okays medicinal pot cookies, other cannabis products 🌿Supreme Court of Canada okays medicinal pot cookies, other cannabis products
The Supreme Court of Canada has opened Pandora's cookie jar by blessing pot-infused ginger snaps and cannabis derivatives, causing a fuming federal health minister to insist that patients must smoke their bud.
In a unanimous decision, stinging in its brevity and common sense, the country's highest court said Thursday medical marijuana patients should not be restricted to just the dried plant.
The seven justices said the national medical pot program was flawed, impinged patients' rights, and was not saved by the section of the constitution that allows reasonable infringements for worthy societal goals.
Lawyers involved in the case said it also had broader implications because the right to use comes with an implicit right of access to a supply.
Although the court didn't address the issue, the lawyers said the situation is analogous to the rulings that led to the creation of the medical marijuana scheme at the turn of...
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