The City of Vancouver’s plan to regulate marijuana dispensaries across the city has drawn criticism from Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose.
On Friday, Ambrose was interviewed by On the Coast host Stephen Quinn.
Does marijuana not have value as a medicine?
It’s important that people know that marijuana is not a medicine. It has not been approved by Health Canada as a medicine.
Why create a regime to produce it and distribute it and allow people to use it for medicinal purposes?
The courts ruled about 10 years ago that said certain Canadians should have access to dry marijuana if they believed this was something that helped them…there is a regime in place that is administered by Health Canada only because it affects our legislation that is very highly regulated. It is a regime that is very robust that is overseen by the medical community and it will provide dry marijuana to people who believe they need it and that’s in consultation with the physician.
CBC News – Apr 25, 2015.
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