Sentences with phrase «marihuana for medical purposes»

The discussion of Krieger's most recent case must begin with a description of the legal framework surrounding the use of marihuana for medical purposes.

At trial, Judge W. Pepler of the Alberta Provincial Court accepted evidence on the use of marihuana for medical purposes.

The MMAR... authorized activities related to marihuana that would otherwise be illegal, and provided seriously ill persons with a process by which they could obtain an authorization to possess, and a licence to produce marihuana for medical purposes.

Eventually, the Ontario Court of Appeal found that certain provisions of the MMAR were contrary to the rights to liberty and security of the person under s. 7 of the Charter, as they failed to provide reasonable access to a legal source of supply of marihuana for medical purposes, required some applicants to have the support of two specialists to establish medical need (depending on the nature of their illness), and exposed those in need of medical marihuana to criminal liability if they could not comply with the MMAR (see Hitzig v. Canada (2003), 231 D.L.R. (4th) 104, 2003 CanLII 30796 (ON C.A.), leave to appeal refused, [2004] S.C.C.A. No. 5).

However, they confine medical access to «dried marihuana», so that those who are legally authorized to possess marihuana for medical purposes are still prohibited from possessing cannabis products extracted from the active medicinal compounds in the cannabis plant.