Canada: Medical marijuana OK for judges, lawyers, juries?
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The B.C. Supreme Courthouse was abuzz — jurors getting high? Lawyers grabbing a toke? Judges mellowing out?
Vancouver’s downtown glass ziggurat of justice might look like an oversized greenhouse, but pot friendly?
Now that medical marijuana is the talk of the town, with dispensaries as popular as coffee shops and two mainstream political parties willing to let people spark up their bongs, the potential side-effects are becoming more obvious.
What do you do with a juror who has a medical prescription for dope and insists on using his or her medication during deliberations?
How would you know unless they lit up a doobie in the jury room? Are we now entitled to an addled panel of our peers?
Similarly, should you have a right to know if your lawyer is playing the Big Lebowski with his prescription, chewing pot...
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