Marijuana industry flourishing amid Tories’ war on pot

As the Conservative government’s champion in the war on pot, Health Minister Rona Ambrose has taken some heavy blows and faces the prospect of more.

Ms. Ambrose was “outraged” in early June when the Supreme Court ruled that legal medical-marijuana users would be permitted to eat the drug as well as smoke it. She was “deeply disappointed” last week when Vancouver said it would regulate marijuana dispensaries, most of which obtain their supply from unauthorized sources.

Her government’s efforts a year ago to end the right of medical-pot users to legally grow cannabis in their homes have been temporarily thwarted by a court challenge and could ultimately be struck down as a violation of civil rights.

And, despite the Conservative government’s vehement stand against pot, often wielded as a political club against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s stated support for legalization, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has presided over a period of...

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