Health Canada reverses medical marijuana position

This morning (July 15) at 11 a.m. Health Canada held a conference call with medical marijuana producers to say oil can now be used.

“This is a big thing for a lot of Canadian families,” said Sebastien St-Louis, CEO of Hydropothecary, who was in on the call. “Medical marijuana has just gotten a little bit more medical today.”

Among the Canadian families affected is the McKnights of West Carleton. Mandy has fought for years for her six-year-old son to have the legal right to ingest medical marijuana in ways other than smoking.

“Gosh, I just got wind of it. I’m shocked but in a good way,” she said from her parents’ home in Newfoundland. “I thought with the election coming that they would sit on it. How amazing is that?”

She had lambasted the Conservative government in June after its negative reaction to a supreme court decision siding with her...

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