Physicians reluctant to become gatekeepers for those who want legal access to pot
Medical marijuana users across Canada can be forgiven for being confused right now.
First, they thought that with the new medical marijuana regime that comes into effect tomorrow, they would lose their ability to grow their own legal pot at home and have to buy it instead from new large-scale commercial operations.
Plus, it seemed the users would have to dismantle their own growing operations, and could find police on their doorsteps if they didn’t notify Health Canada by April 30 that they had stopped production and destroyed all their plants.
‘It’s very confusing right now, and for people like me who are thinking about this and absorbed in it all day, it’s kind of hard to keep track of what’s going on.’– Dana Larsen, director of non-profit group Sensible B.C.
But a Federal Court ruling on March 21 changed the legal landscape, at least temporarily, and users licensed for personal production as of Sept. 30, 2013, will be able to keep growing their pot at home pending a future trial.
Click the link to read the whole CBC News story – http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/medical-marijuana-new-rules-and-a-ton-of-confusion-1.2588779
