The Crown's case against medical marijuana user Terry Wood for growing and possessing cannabis has gone up in smoke.

"My client is ecstatic," said Amherst lawyer Jim O'Neil. "He's been living under the gun for quite a while on these charges."

Wood is a 53-year-old father of three who lives in the Cumberland County community of Williamsdale, near Oxford. He had been growing and using marijuana to control the chronic pain he suffers from chipped bones in his elbows and knees, hip-bone spurs and a dislocated shoulder, all from his days as a machinist in the military.

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