In a decision that will affect a Summerland couple's efforts to treat their daughter's seizures, the B.C. Appeal Court has ruled the federal government's restriction on allowing only dried marijuana to be used under its medical access regulations is unconstitutional. Two-year-old Kyla Williams, who has a severe seizure disorder, has shown marked improvement during the past five months while her family has been treating her with cannabis oil. The only problem is, it's illegal. [continues 528 words]
Imagine a known and immensely costly medical condition. Consider this illness has been the subject of great study, with research breakthroughs providing a clear description of its causes and treatment. Imagine that, despite this, hospitals and physicians' offices are often clogged with consequences of this condition all because of the widespread failure of the medical community to apply what has been learned to effectively diagnose and treat it. Sadly, you don't have to imagine. The illness is addiction to alcohol and other drugs. The failure to train physicians and other health professionals in addiction medicine helps explain why this remarkable set of circumstances has persisted for so long. [continues 599 words]
After spending almost five years in the United States incarcerated for selling marijuana seeds via mail, the Vancouver-based Prince of Pot is a free man. On August 12, Emery immediately used waiting microphones to resume his work as a activist. "Canadian politicians are the most gutless group of people I have ever seen," he said at a news conference in Windsor, Ontario, convened just hours after his release. "They don't want to bring up marijuana. They are afraid of it. After 45 years, really, they're still afraid of it? Is this what we've got?...We are going to have to reclaim our democracy and get marijuana legalized next election." [continues 473 words]
Unfortunately, it would seem the Conservatives have taken a page from their U.S. counterparts, opting for lies and innuendo against Justin Trudeau and bolster credence for their archaic anti-marijuana stance. To ask the CMA and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons to allow their good name to be associated with what amounts to a slur campaign against Trudeau would be a huge tactical error. The truth of how Trudeau conceives the implementation of the sale and regulation of marijuana flies in the face of the butchered sound bites and faulty innuendoes the Conservatives want to use. It will backfire on Stephen Harper's Tories at the polls. They're already afraid of him, but painting Trudeau as an advocate for pot use by kids would surely be the Conservative death knell. Barbara Ewart, Maple Ridge [end]
This is in response to the two angry Province readers who took the time to write in to complain about media attention given to Marc Emery. For starters, Emery never sold "dope;" he sold seeds of a plant, a plant found in nature, a plant used by millions to successfully treat many medical conditions. As polls show that an overwhelming majority of B.C. residents are in favour or legalizing marijuana, and with two U.S. states now legally allowing the sale of marijuana, the writer who suggested that Emery "repent" for his crimes, showed just how out of touch he is with the desires of the majority of his neighbours. [continues 83 words]
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's highest court is green-lighting medical marijuana in everything from oils and cookies to teas in a ruling that finds federal health laws limiting weed consumption to the dried variety is unconstitutional. The B.C. Appeal Court released its 2-1 decision on Thursday stating that medical marijuana access regulations infringe on the charter rights of people requiring other forms of cannabis to treat illnesses. The ruling upheld a decision by a lower court judge over the case of Owen Smith, a Victoria man who was charged in 2009 with possession for trafficking of THC - marijuana's active compound - while working as head baker for the Cannabis Buyers Club of Canada. [continues 595 words]
Ban Breaks Charter VANCOUVER - British Columbia's highest court is green-lighting medical marijuana in everything from oils and cookies to teas in a ruling that finds federal health laws limiting pot consumption to the dried variety are unconstitutional. The B.C. Appeal Court released a 2-1 decision on Thursday stating that medical marijuana access regulations infringe on the Charter rights of people requiring other forms of cannabis to treat illnesses. The ruling upheld a decision by a lower court judge in the case of Owen Smith, a Victoria man who was charged in 2009 with possession for trafficking of THC - marijuana's active compound - while working as head baker for the Cannabis Buyers Club of Canada. [continues 302 words]
VANCOUVER - B.C.'s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2-1 judgment, the provincial Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The top bench suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 530 words]
Limiting medical marijuana to dried variety violates Charter rights, judges find VANCOUVER- British Columbia's highest court is green-lighting medical marijuana in everything from oils and cookies to teas in a ruling that finds federal health laws limiting weed consumption to the dried variety is unconstitutional. The B.C. Appeal Court released its 2-1 decision on Thursday stating that medical marijuana access regulations infringe on the Charter rights of people requiring other forms of cannabis to treat illnesses. The ruling upheld a decision by a lower court judge over the case of Owen Smith, a Victoria man who was charged in 2009 with possession for trafficking of THC - marijuana's active compound - while working as head baker for the Cannabis Buyers Club of Canada. [continues 268 words]
B.C. Judges Toss Smoke-Only Restriction VANCOUVER - B.C.'s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2-1 judgment, the provincial Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The top bench suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 435 words]
Law Is Unconstitutional Because It Prohibits Edibles, Derivatives, Judges Rule VANCOUVER - B.C.'s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2-1 judgment, the province's Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The court suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 439 words]
VANCOUVER - B.C.'s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2-1 judgment, the provincial Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The top bench suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 287 words]
B.C.'S Top Court Rules Use of Edible Pot Is Allowed VANCOUVER - B.C.'s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2-1 judgment, the provincial Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The top bench suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 306 words]
Judgment: State Should Not Interfere With How Canadians Manage Health Issues B. C.' s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2- 1 judgment, the provincial Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The top bench suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 578 words]
Options Other Than Smoking a Right, Court Says VANCOUVER - B.C.'s highest court has ruled there is a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions. In a 2-1 judgment, the provincial Court of Appeal said the country's medical marijuana legislation is unconstitutional because it restricts patients to possessing only the dried plant and to consuming it via smoking. The top bench suspended its ruling to give Ottawa a year to amend the law to allow patients access to edibles and derivatives - such as creams, salves, brownies, cakes, cookies and chocolate bars. [continues 574 words]
Medical Marijuana OK'd In Oil, Brownies Patients can take their medical marijuana in oils, cookies and teas after B.C.'s highest court ruled that federal health laws limiting use to dried leaves are unconstitutional. The B.C. Court of Appeal released its 2-1 ruling on Thursday, upholding a lower court decision in the case of Victoria resident Owen Smith, who was charged in 2009 with possession for trafficking of THC, marijuana's active compound. Smith, arrested while baking cookies for the Cannabis Buyers Club of Canada, was also charged with possession of dried marijuana. [continues 541 words]
I fail to see why a criminal like Marc Emery is getting so much attention. He knowingly committed a crime and instead of repenting he's gloating. I believe he should have been left in an American jail instead of being sent here to live off of my tax dollars. Marijuana is still illegal here, and until it's legal, I'd appreciate if Emery and his wife used their energy in a more productive manner. See Bains, Vancouver [end]
After having previously been acquitted of drug charges in Abbotsford, pot activist Tim Felger doesn't think he should have to undergo a new trial. The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday granted an oral hearing for Felger to argue why an appeal should proceed on a decision made in January by the B.C. Court of Appeal, which set aside his 2012 acquittal. A date for the oral hearing has not been set. Felger was acquitted in December 2012 of seven charges - six counts of trafficking in marijuana and one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking - that were laid in 2009 in relation to his former Da Kine store on Essendene Avenue in Abbotsford. [continues 270 words]
Prince George resident Angela Cunningham thought she had found the perfect tenant in James Wilson. Employed, well-spoken and clean-cut, the 32-year-old Wilson, a framer by trade, struck Cunningham and her husband, Kelly, as an honest, personable guy who would pay his rent on time and treat the house on Trout Road in Salmon Valley as his own. For the first few months, he did just that, even earning himself a seat at the Cunningham's dinner table last Easter where he was served, along with the other 20-30 assembled guests, a plate of turkey with all the fixings. [continues 1068 words]
The two-year-old Summerland, B.C., girl whose family is feeding her illegal cannabis oil has had a dramatic improvement in her seizure disorder. Kyla Williams' family says in the past five months the oil given to the girl has greatly reduced the hundreds of seizures she was suffering from daily. "We were astonished and so thankful when Kyla no longer had any seizures or only a very few each day. Her overall condition continues to improve both physically and mentally. Kyla is alert, increasingly socially interactive and loves sucking her thumb," Kyla's mother, Courtney Williams said. [continues 312 words]
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