This Court Case Could Give Canadians The Right To Grow Cannabis At Home

Every day, lawyer and cannabis advocate Kirk Tousaw checks his email first thing in the morning, hoping for news that he and thousands of medical marijuana patients across Canada have waited for since last May. That's when Tousaw and a team of lawyers wrapped up the Allard case, which challenges the federal prohibition against growing small amounts of cannabis for personal use.

The e-mail he's waiting for is the notice that a decision has been reached, and when it comes he'll race over to federal court for good news, he hopes:

"It could be any day," Tousaw told Civilized. "But it also could be weeks or months. The difficulty is that we presented a ton of evidence to the court. Federal court judges don't get time off to review evidence from trials. They have to do the next trial. There were literally stacks and stacks of paper that this judge

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