Ontario court strikes down marijuana laws - CTV News -
April 13, 2011 - "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.
"'Rather than promote health – the regulations have the opposite effect. Rather than promote effective drug control – the regulations drive the critically ill to the black market,' he wrote.
"The ruling doesn't immediately make pot possession legal: the judge suspended his ruling for three months, giving Ottawa until July to fix the problems his ruling identified."
Read more: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110413/medical-marijuana-laws-110415/20110413/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
April 13, 2011 - "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.
"'Rather than promote health – the regulations have the opposite effect. Rather than promote effective drug control – the regulations drive the critically ill to the black market,' he wrote.
"The ruling doesn't immediately make pot possession legal: the judge suspended his ruling for three months, giving Ottawa until July to fix the problems his ruling identified."
Read more: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110413/medical-marijuana-laws-110415/20110413/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
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