Canada To Legalize Weed On July 10th?

[Harry Gypsna]

doctors definately go to uni to get paid in the states... because what was once a vocation has been turned into a profession. Plenty of these type of doctrs in britain too-generally they get their training courtesy of the NHS, then fuck off and work for Harley street. Too many fuckers in it for cahs and prestige who really dont give 2 shits for their patients. The real old school mentality doctors-ie they became to doctors to get people well--theyre the ones who work their whole careers in the NHS.
that point aboiut having the best of everything medical in the states--well some people do do sure.

 

[budlover123]

Many American's are also unaware of how many Americans get denied coverage from their insurance company for things they need.

The public option would have sent huge ripples through the insurance industry, because being not for profit, the public option was not going to rob people.

sorry, I just don't know about Canada, I can only chime in about America, I might have to move to Canada though. Apparently they are fracking all over where I live, a horrible, cheaper, dangerous way of drilling for natural gas that seriously threatens the water supplies.

 

[Midnight Rudy]

So what's the latest on this? Is weed legal in Canada? LOL I haven't seen anything else about this.

 

[Anti]

I was wondering the same. My news feed compiles anything with the word "marijuana" in it. I haven't heard a peep. My guess is, nothing good happened or we'd be hearing it all over the place.

 

[igrowone]

i would suspect an ambiguous situation, last i saw there was some kind of new regulatory set of rules<br>
probably this will begin the court process again, hoping whatever they did will be enough to piss off the judge(s) that issued the decision

 

[itisme]

Well it aboot time I move up North, EH! Well I can't afford to keep healthcare if I move out of the US

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

Here is an update I found, from the Cannabis Culture website, dated July 5, 2011. Seems the case has been delayed until November so that the high court can put in their two cents.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/2011/07/05/Ontarios-Burning-Pot-Controversy

Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun

Ontario’s highest court will review a landmark decision in November which deals with Canada’s troubled medical marijuana program and the legalization of the production and possession of pot.

Matthew Mernagh, a frail-looking St. Catharines man with myriad health problems, two months ago scored an enormous victory when Justice Donald Taliano ruled the marijuana program unconstitutional. The judge gave Ottawa until middle of this month to repair the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) or pot would be effectively legalized in Ontario.

Doctors’ “overwhelming refusal to participate in the medicinal marijuana program completely undermines the effectiveness of the program,” Taliano wrote in his ruling.

The mid-July deadline was recently extended when federal government lawyer Kevin Wilson successfully argued the need for the current pot laws and regulations to stay in place until Ontario’s highest court could hear the appeal, likely in November. In granting the deadline extension, Court of Appeal Justice Robert Blair noted:

“The practical effect of the decision if the suspension were permitted to expire on July 14 would be to legalize marijuana production in Ontario, if not across Canada.”

In an interview, Wilson said the regulations are not at fault, “it’s the decisions of the individual doctors.”

Toronto law professor Alan Young, who has fought some major marijuana court cases, described Mernagh’s case as a difficult one.

“It’s about the doctors, it’s not about the government,” he said. “There is no constitutional rights in having a doctor properly educated. We all knew that doctors would be reluctant.

“To what extent is the government complicit in the reluctance of doctors to participate. That’s the issue,” he added.

Mernagh’s lawyer Paul Lewin has told court there are about 400,000 Canadians using marijuana for “therapeutic purposes” — including people suffering from HIV, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

The number of licensed medical marijuana users is far lower than Lewin’s statistics. In the first 10 months of last year, Health Canada received 7,385 applications for medical pot licences and granted them to 4,650 people.

The federal government, meanwhile, has announced that medicinal marijuana users will be prohibited from growing their own weed and will have to obtain the drug from licensed, commercial producers under a new national marijuana supply program.

- Article from Toronto Sun

 

[Frostynugz]

Sorry to update you guys that it has since hit the fan. The government is looking to remove Health Canada from the equation, which makes NO sense since one would think the "medical" from mmj and the "health" in health Canada kinda make sense together. Anywho, they're wanting to strip patients of their right to grow, and only issue mmj licenses to selected privatized growers, who patients would then be forced to buy from at whatever price they see fit. Despite the fact that it took some ppl years to find a doctor to sign, the cost of equipment, and the biggest one of all, the amount of time it took ppl to find the strain that works for them. Dispensaries are few and far between unless you live in Vancouver or Toronto. All of this shit because ppl were over their plant counts by a longshot, and also the public fears of increased crime, fires, etc. Complete bullshit for those of us who have been trying fucking hard for yrs to even get a signature for legitimate reasons.(They're far more strict with license approval up here IF you even get a signature.)

Nugz

 

[TheOutlawTree]

it will never be legal in canada as long as its illegal in the u.s.a. The fascist U.S has to much influence.

at least canada as a country is getting richer, all the herb flows across the border for americans to smoke up, and the money goes to canada! Good for canada, I have no sympathy or pride for my country anymore

 

[devilgoob]

A new national marijuana supply program?

WHAT!

I bet your in five-years the USA will either take after or somehow become a partriotic propaganda machi......oh wait..

 

[budlover123]

it will never be legal in canada as long as its illegal in the u.s.a. The fascist U.S has to much influence...

don't sell yourself short Canada, it's too convenient for the fascists in America and Canada.

 

[Darkstarlive]

The whole world has signed a treaty saying they will keep MJ a controlled substance.

 

[beanja]

The whole world has signed a treaty saying they will keep MJ a controlled substance.

I don't believe you , do you have proof?

 

[igrowone]

I don't believe you , do you have proof?

there is a treaty, the exact name slips my mind
this is often tossed out as a red herring to make it sound like the world will go to war if MJ is legalized
but you can withdraw from a treaty, there's always some weasel language in there

 

[cannarelief]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs

 

[guerilla415]

The whole world has signed a treaty saying they will keep MJ a controlled substance.

thats one way to put it, I would say that the USA and thier allies basically forced the entire world to ban all narcotics, including marijuana.

Wouldnt it be a bitch if some Muslim nation ran shit like that???
No alcohol for all hahaha!

fight the war

guerilla