Cookies, muffins, butter, cream, oil, herbal tea … The therapeutic cannabis can now be consumed in all these forms according to a decision taken by the Supreme Court of Canada on June 11, 2015.
Inhaling cannabis as harmful as tobacco
At the origin of this judgment and this redefining cannabis, a matter of trafficking. A baker was convicted of drug trafficking after being arrested in possession of 211 cannabis-based cookies and “26 containers of liquids labeled” lip balm “and” massage oil “.
During the trial, the seven judges of the highest court were unanimous in pointing out the drug law which limits the sale of therapeutic cannabis to its only “dried” form, deeming it unconstitutional.
The Court noted that smoking cannabis can be as harmful to some people as tobacco. It also concluded that the law undermined patient safety by forcing them “to choose between, on the one hand, legal but inadequate treatment and, on the other hand, an illegal but more effective solution”.
Legal medical cannabis since 2001
Consumption of cannabis for medical reasons has been permitted in Canada since 2001, but this “authorization” to consume has not been to everyone’s liking.
The federal Minister of Health, Rona Ambrose, in particular reacted with anger: “frankly, the Supreme Court revolts me”, she declared to the press. She insisted that only her department has “the authority and expertise” to approve drugs in Canada.
” The marijuana has never been the subject of a regulatory approval process from Health Canada, which requires (…) clinical trials based on scientific evidence, ”she added.
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