Posted on 04/01/03
Cannabis and the law
That's what the Chrétien government gets for cutting corners.In July of 2000, the Ontario Court of Appeal declared that Canada's law prohibiting simple possession of marijuana was unconstitutional, because it denied sick people the right to use an effective drug to treat nausea from chemotherapy, intraocular pressure from glaucoma and other such pain. The court gave Parliament a year to amend the law, failing which it would be invalid in Ontario.
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