Canada's Medical Marijuana Home-Growers Rejoice, but Will Their Gardens Survive Legalization?

 

They may call it weed, but what grows in Laurie MacEachern’s plot is more like the lush fields of corn near her rural home, southeast of Ottawa, than the goldenrod and wild parsnip in the ditch. 

“Welcome to my garden,” she tells a rare recent visitor, surveying rows of luxuriant green plants that will be ready to harvest next month.

In an area the size of a suburban backyard, the 57-year-old grandmother grows enough medical cannabis to last her a year.

Laurie MacEachern, shown on her tractor outside her little plot of pot plants at the back of her home about an hour outside of Ottawa.

Laurie MacEachern, shown on her tractor outside her little plot of pot plants at the back of her home about an hour outside of Ottawa. Julie Oliver/Postmedia

Her garden, tucked behind a locked gate with a motion-activated alarm and...

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