Judge strikes down law barring patients from growing medical marijuana
VANCOUVER — A Federal Court judge has struck down ”arbitrary and overbroad” legislation introduced by the former Conservative government that barred medical marijuana patients from growing their own cannabis.
Judge Michael Phelan found the law violated patients charter rights, but he suspended his decision for six months to allow the federal Liberal government time to create a new medical marijuana regime.
Phelan also extended a court injunction allowing people who held licences to continue to grow their own marijuana.