Medical Pot Patients Can Now Legally Grow Weed at Home, Hurray!

The federal government has announced new rules for medical marijuana users that will allow patients to grow their own at home.

Of course, the Liberals have also promised to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Canada has said it plans to legalize marijuana in the Spring of 2017.

“The regulations that were spoken today form part of the considerations that our task group on marijuana will consider”, Wilson-Raybould said after testifying before the Commons justice committee.

Under the new rules unveiled Thursday by Health Canada, authorized patients will be able to grow a specific number of plants based on their prescriptions and whether they are growing the plants indoors or outdoors. The government is going with a formula that allows two outdoor plants or five indoor plants for each gram a patient is prescribed per day.

Health Canada was given six months to come up with new rules after the Allard v.

The Federal Court case was launched by four B.C. patients who challenged the constitutionality of the former Conservative government’s 2014 overhaul of the medical marijuana system.

Only licensed marijuana producers are allowed to sell the plants and seeds for homegrown medical cannabis plants.

Judge Michael Phelan said in his February 24 decision those rules that “limited a patient to a single government-approved contractor and eliminated the ability to grow one’s own marijuana or choose one’s own supplier” restricted patient liberties under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Canopy Growth Corporation, Canada’s largest LP, is less enthusiastic, calling the change “a setback for the advancement of sound cannabis policy”.

Michael Haines, CEO of Mettrum, one of Canada’s 34 LPs, was quick to comment on the announcement.

Some people in Canada can now legally grow their own marijuana.

Under these new regulations [patients] will be able to produce a limited amount of cannabis for their own medical purposes, or they will be able to designate someone to produce it for them.

The Canadian Pharmacists Association said the government missed a chance to improve patient safety by not having its members be the sole dispensers of medical marijuana.