Canadian Landlords and Tenants to Fight out Right to Grow Medical Marijuana Under New Regulations
The new Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulation (ACMPR), which came into force on August 24, 2016, has changed how patients with prescriptions for medical marijuana can get their medicine. The ACMPR came to be, in part, as a response to a Federal Court ruling that the former Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) violated the Charter because it prohibited personal production of medical cannabis. For many medicinal cannabis users, the cost of accessing through the channels allowed under the MMPR were simply unaffordable.
Under the new regulations, in addition to being able to purchase through licensed producers, patients may apply to and register with Health Canada to grow their own cannabis plants (or designate someone else to grow it for them). The amounts a patient is allowed to grow is based on their prescription, but Health Canada estimates that every gram of dried marijuana prescribed (per day) will...
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