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#Canada: Ontario court strikes down marijuana laws
An Ontario court has struck down Canada’s laws that prohibit the possession and growing of marijuana after ruling that the medical marijuana program is unconstitutional.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Donald Taliano found that the marijuana program is failing to ensure that patients who need the drug can get the necessary approvals. So the St. Catharines, Ont. justice declared the “Marihuana Medical Access Regulations” invalid.
And, because the problems with the program force medical marijuana users to resort to illegal means to obtain their marijuana, Taliano also struck down two sections of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that prohibit possession and cultivating marijuana.
He deemed the sections unconstitutional because they can be used to charge medical marijuana users who haven’t been able to obtain medical marijuana licences.
via CTV British Columbia – Ontario court strikes down marijuana laws – CTV News.
