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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Beyond BC Bud: Canada's Marijuana Policies Are Getting Better 🌿Beyond BC Bud: Canada's Marijuana Policies Are Getting Better
Hilary Bricken
My firm has recently written blog posts about our Southern neighbor, Mexico, and its trials and tribulations with marijuana legalization (see Marijuana Legalization: Bad for the Cartels and Mexican Marijuana Laws: Change is Here/Coming). And with all that has been going on with Canada and cannabis lately, I’m going to start giving our Northern neighbor equal time.
Like nearly every other country in the world, marijuana is federally illegal in Canada. See Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Nonetheless, Canadian law does allow Canadians to buy and possess marijuana for medical purposes. Unlike the United States, Canada’s medical marijuana laws and rules are governed by federal legislation, making them uniform and enforceable in all Canadian provinces.
Until two years ago, for Canadian patients to be authorized to possess marijuana for medical purposes, patients had to fall into one of two categories of illnesses and associated “debilitating symptoms.” Under newer regulations,...
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