An Edmonton-area mother is challenging an attempt by the Alberta government to legally bar her four-year-old daughter from receiving a marijuana treatment the mother says has successfully quelled her daughter's debilitating epileptic seizures. "I feel violated and bullied to take away the one thing...
When Sarah Stuive first got into the natural pest control business — which uses predatory insects, or "good bugs," to weed out pests — she never expected to be working with cannabis plants. But thanks to Health Canada regulations that limit the use of...
After three months of frustration and delays, a Royal Canadian Navy veteran living in Middle Musquodoboit will only have to wait a few more days for his pain medication. Keith Mullin was injured in 1984 while serving aboard HMCS Saguenay. He fell four metres...
Toronto Mayor John Tory (open John Tory's policard) on Monday reiterated his support for cannabis decriminalization as a “positive step forward for Canada†though there are no immediate plans to follow Vancouver’s lead to regulate how pot is sold....
The head of B.C.’s medical association says the federal government is failing Canada’s doctors by not providing meaningful guidelines on how to talk to their patients about medical marijuana prescriptions in the absence of reliable clinical studies. Bill Cavers says doctors across Canada are...
Medical marijuana users’ fight to continue growing their own plants is now in the hands of a Federal Court judge after lawyers delivered their final arguments in Vancouver late last week. New rules that force patients to purchase medical marijuana from licensed commercial growers...
"I could't even eat this morning," said medical marijuana patient Anne Genovy as she sat in the front row of audience seats in Vancouver's Federal Court on Thursday. "My hands were shaking. The weed relaxes me, but not knowing where I'll get it...
Canada’s minister of public safety has weighed in on Vancouver’s plan to regulate the over-the-counter sale of medicinal marijuana. An April 28 letter co-signed signed by Steven Blaney and Health Minister Rona Ambrose emphasizes the storefront sale of cannabis is illegal and warns Vancouver not...
Lawyers will go before a Federal Court judge in Halifax in June to ask the court to certify a proposed class action on behalf of 40,000 medical marijuana users whose privacy was breached by Health Canada in 2013. There are 2,105 Nova Scotia class...
Vancouver is about to become the first city in Canada where the business of selling marijuana will be regulated and permitted. Although the drug is illegal in Canada and technically only available to people by a mail order, prescription system set up by the...