Pubdate: Sat, 13 Jun 2015
Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2015 Winnipeg Free Press
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502
Author: Richard Lockhart
Page: A14
Referenced: Supreme Court Judgment (R. v. Smith): 
http://mapinc.org/url/d2dzMbjW

TORIES BLOWING SMOKE ON POT RULING

Once again, the Harper government proves itself the masters of 
misdirection (High court rules no crime to eat pot, June 12).

The Supreme Court's unanimous, common-sense ruling that other forms 
of consumption of medical marijuana must be legal is not a medical 
judgment, as Health Minister Rona Ambrose has said. The medical 
efficacy of marijuana has been resolved by doctors long since; she 
knows that full well.

The legal ruling offends the Harper government's sense of entitlement 
to govern without comment from anyone -- the Supreme Court's habit of 
speaking out against bad laws is the real issue.

Richard Lockhart

Winnipeg
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