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When a Markham father and son’s lease for the medical marijuana site they were maintaining expired, they were forced to get creative and move the operation to the town of Stayner, where the family owned a farm.
Despite having a valid licence from Health Canada to grow 1,025 plants — a limit to which they were adhering — and a lawyer’s letter in hand explaining their actions, their farm was busted by cops and the men were arrested in September 2015.
Zhangjian and Zheng Min Fan now face three years in prison.
According to their lawyer, Darren Sederoff, this type of harsh sentencing for breaking certain parts of the licence has become more frequent since a 2014 court decision took away Canadians’ ability to grow marijuana legally to help with their medical conditions.
The so-called Allard decision did, however, rule that anyone previously authorized to produce marijuana would be allowed...
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