When a retired police officer from Summerland, B.C., left his job after 25 years, he hardly imagined fighting for his little granddaughter to be given marijuana. Chris Nuessler, along with his wife Elaine, wants Canada to allow two-year-old Kyla Williams to be given a...
The Quebec College of Physicians is warning its members not to prescribe medical marijuana, despite new federal laws that put doctors in charge of authorizing the treatment. Earlier this month, the provincial doctors association introduced guidelines that effectively prevent physicians in Quebec from participating...
There’s a reason patients call it “Hellth Canada,†and it’s not because they’re doing a hell of a job. Health Canada has been running Canada’s medical marijuana program from the beginning, and they’re really bad at it! Here’s the top 6 ways they’ve...
Last month, a Canadian federal court granted an injunction against a ban on patient medical marijuana cultivation and designated growers under new federal regulations. It has been a tumultuous ride for more than 40,000 federally recognized medical marijuana patients, and it doesn't seem like...
An international group led by Vanderbilt University researchers has found cannabinoid receptors, through which marijuana exerts its effects, in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response. This is the first time cannabinoid receptors have been identified...
1. Is medical marijuana legal in Canada? Yes. Medical marijuana became legal in 2000, when a landmark court ruling overturned the prohibition of marijuana for medical purposes. Since then, numerous court decisions have forced Health Canada to create and adapt federal laws for patients...
There’s more evidence Canada has taken a back seat to America when it comes to relaxing marijuana laws. More than a year after voters okayed recreational pot use in Washington and Colorado, a poll out of the US shows three-quarters of Americans think the...
Bruised but not bowed, the federal government is returning to court, hoping to overturn an injunction that broadsided the key goal of its new medical marijuana program — eradicating neighbourhood grow operations. Home growers were supposed to be chopping down their plants and packing...
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...
There is strong evidence that medical marijuana pills may reduce symptoms of spasticity and pain reported by multiple sclerosis patients, but little proof that smoking pot offers the same benefit, according to new alternative treatment guidelines released by the American Academy of Neurology. The...