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Pitt Meadows—the most ban happy town in the west—has succeeded in passing the first Canadian bylaw banning caregivers from growing marijuana for patients in their homes, or on farms. Original reports of the bylaw indicated the ban would be on growing legal marijuana entirely within its jurisdiction’s agricultural and residential zones, but the final […]
What about the doctors?
Some of the top stories this week in Canada revolve around whether or not doctors should be prescribing cannabis for medical purposes in this country. The Canadian Medical Journal published two very opposing views on the topic this Monday. Both CMAJ commentaries quibble over relative harms, burden of proof, and the relative lack of clinical […]
Cannabis in Costa Rica – Part 1
Cannabis prohibition in Costa Rica Earlier this year I visited beautiful tropical Costa Rica with my partner. The most bio-diverse country in the world, Costa Rica’s Sunny verdant slopes would be a sublime place to grow medicinal cannabis alongside some of the worlds’ finest coffee. However, like most of the planet, cannabis remains […]