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B.C.’s highest judges are mulling whether there’s a constitutional right to tasty pot cookies and other marijuana products such as infused oils, balms and lotions.

But first the Court of Appeal panel must decide whether the head baker of a Victoria compassion club can claim that right since Owen Smith was not part of the medical marijuana program.

The three justices — Ed Chiasson, Risa Levine and Nicole Garson — grilled lawyers Friday about why Smith was allowed to raise such a challenge; wasn’t he an ordinary drug trafficker? Read the rest of this entry »

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Medical marijuana in tea or baking faces another B.C. court

By admin | December 14, 2013

Medical marijuana in tea or baking faces another B.C. court

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Owen Smith, left, with his lawyer Kirk Tousaw, outside Victoria Law Courts in
January 2012. Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist

The Crown is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision that allows patients authorized to use medical marijuana to drink it in tea or bake it in their brownies and cookies.

On Friday, Owen Smith, the former head baker for the Cannabis Buyers Club of Canada, will be before the B.C. Court of Appeal in Vancouver, trying to preserve his April 2012 constitutional victory against Health Canada’s medical marijuana access regulations.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Smith’s lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, said he was excited to again demonstrate that the rights of medical marijuana patients to medicate themselves with cannabis and cannabis derivatives should be protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“We’re simply asking for the right to be able to ingest a safe and natural health product that’s been used medicinally for thousands of years,” Tousaw said. “I think there’s a long history of protecting access to health care in this country, and I hope we continue to stand on that on Friday.” Read the rest of this entry »

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