Canada: Medical marijuana myths exposed as court poses new challenge
In the opening paragraphs of his groundbreaking medical marijuana decision, Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan is careful to stress what the ruling is not about.
Legalization. Liberalization. Commercialization.
"This case is about the access to marijuana for medical purposes by persons who are ill," Phelan writes.
But, of course, like any part of this country's long and bitter conversation about cannabis, the decision is about all those things and more.
Ideology and myth
What's striking on a close read of the 109-page document is Phelan's excoriation of the ideology and myths that went into the construction of the former Conservative government's medical marijuana production scheme.
And in turn, how much wasted money and time have been spent defending legislation whose main benefit, as the judge describes it, was to cut costs for the government of the day.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper made no secret of his opposition to the legalization of
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