Meducation Station
The Meducation Station is a site to help people learn about the medical cannabis industry. If you are looking for help with medical cannabis you have come to the right place. We have gathered the most relevant information in the medical cannabis industry that we could find to help educate you in your quest about medical cannabis.
• 1969 Canadian government establishes a Commission of Inquiry Into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, known as the Le Dain commission after its chairman, Gerald Le Dain.
• 1972 The commission recommends decriminalizing simple cannabis possession and cultivation for personal purposes.
• 1977 Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau tells a group of students: “If you have a joint and you’re smoking it for your private pleasure, you shouldn’t be hassled.”
• 1999 Two Canadian patients get the federal OK to smoke pot.
• 2000 Court rules Canadians have a constitutional right to use cannabis as a medicine.
• 2001 Canadian Medical Marijuana Access Regulations grant legal access to cannabis for individuals with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses. Authorized patients can grow their own pot or obtain it from authorized producers or Health Canada.
• 2013 New regulations change the Canadian medical marijuana access rules, shifting to licensed commercial growers for supply and away from homegrown. Some 37,800 people authorized to possess marijuana under the federal program, up from fewer than 100 in 2001.
• 2014 The federal government says the unforeseen growth of its medical marijuana program has “seriously compromised” the goal of providing the drug to patients while ensuring public safety. It says the number of people authorized to possess marijuana under the federal program has risen to 37,000 from fewer than 100 in 2001.
• 2014 Patients and producers authorized under the old regulations required to destroy stocks of pot and cannabis seeds, although a Federal Court has granted a temporary injunction allowing continued use of home-grown medical marijuana until legal arguments can be heard.
** The information above was taken from : https://london.ctvnews.ca/medicalmarijuana/a-timeline-of-some-significant-events-in-the-history-of-medical-marijuana-in-canada-1.3858860 **
2011: Justice Donald Taliano ruled that the MMAR and the prohibitions against the possession and production of cannabis were constitutionally invalid and ordered that the government fix the program accordingly.
2013: The government implemented the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR), which created a commercially licensed industry for the production and distribution of medicinal cannabis.
2015: Owen Smith, a cannabis baker, was charged with the possession of cannabis-infused cookies. He appealed the charge, and the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that restricting legal access to only dried cannabis flower violated the constitutional rights of medical patients. Licensed producers were now allowed to produce cannabis oils and patients were allowed to possess and alter different forms of cannabis.
2017: The Government of Canada proposed the Cannabis Act, which would legalize the possession, use, cultivation, and purchase of limited amounts of cannabis by adults 18 years of age and older.
2018: The Cannabis Act goes into effect, legalizing cannabis for adult use nationwide.
** The information above comes from : https://www.leafly.com/news/canada/history-cannabis-canada **