Coming soon, likely, to a neighbourhood near you: medical marijuana. Dispensaries that sell it have been popping up around the city — there are now six in Kensington Market alone — and there are more on the way.
The shops around town with the little green plant often on their signs are not technically legal. But that’s not stopping them.
Metro Morning producer Brendan Ross wanted to find out how easy it was go get a prescription, and why business appears to be booming.
Ross does have lower back pain which has been diagnosed as joint disfunction, but he never sought out marijuana as a treatment, until this story.
“I went to see a doctor affiliated with a dispensary. And with very little fuss, I got a prescription, and I got the medicine,” he said.
CBC – News – Dec 14, 2015.
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