Ontario Might Soon Make It Legal To Grow And Consume Marijuana.

[Ernst]

http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/114478-legalization-marijuana

Ontario might soon make it legal to grow and consume marijuana. It has now been marked unconstitutional by the court of law of the nation to criminalize any marijuana case. This has brought the nation one step closer to making it legal to be an addict of marijuana.
The court was of the view that due to the governing rules of the medical use of pot, those prohibitions that are laid on the possession and use of it are "constitutionally invalid and of no force and effect".
This has made another mark in the society which is all inclined towards legalizing the use of pot in the nation. There are so many people around the world who are addicted to smoking pot and this is the reason it is slowly moving towards its legalization.
There is a need to stop this sort of actions and reactions, or there soon might be a world which has thousands addicted to pot smoking and that too legally. This could possibly lead to devastating consequences. Once made an addiction, pot is like any other drug. One craves for it and it results in harmful consequences.

Wow this surprised me. Is it true?

What's up Canada?

 

[Serapis]

I think marijuana and our access to it might come under challenge here in the courts as well..... Here is an email I recently received from my activist group mailing list...

Another interesting note from Raich, on remand back to the Ninth Circuit, Angel Raich asserted that she had a fundamental right to medical marijuana as a life saving medication. If a right is found to be “fundamental,” a law which interferes with that right, such as the Controlled Substances Act, must serve a compelling government need and be narrowly tailored to serve that need. I think it's safe to conclude that the CSA is anything but “narrowly tailored.”

The question for the court then was whether there existed this fundamental right to medical marijuana. Angel Raich supported her argument with the “emerging awareness” doctrine – a doctrine advanced and succeeded upon in Lawrence v. Texas, the famous decision which found a fundamental right to consensual homosexual acts (sodomy) in the privacy of one’s home. In Lawrence, the Court acknowledged that it declined to find the asserted right to sodomy in a similar litigation 14 years earlier called Bowers v. Hardwick. The Lawrence court noted that when they declined to find the fundamental right in Bowers, there were still 24 states and the District of Columbia with laws on the books which prohibited sodomy. Because half the country still prohibited the act, the court could not recognize the right as a fundamental one. However, since 1974, when Bowers was decided, things had changed. At the time of Lawrence, only a handful of states still had laws on the books which prohibited sodomy, and there was a practice of non-enforcement. (Beginning to sound familiar?) The Lawrence court found that the then-current situation reflected an “emerging awareness” i.e. that since Bowers, the country had become aware of the right to private sodomy. That awareness was evident in the fact that most states had repealed their sodomy laws. Accordingly, in Lawrence, the court found the right to private sodomy to be fundamental.

The Ninth Circuit in Raich noted that the “emerging awareness” doctrine may very well be the appropriate framework to examine medical marijuana as it concerns the 5th Amendment/fundamental right issue. However, the court continued, the argument failed because only 11 states had decriminalized marijuana for medical purposes. Simply put, not enough states had made the move yet. Well, that was 2007. A mere 4 years later and we have 16 (counting MD) and the District of Columbia decriminalizing cannabis. Many more states are getting in gear and have bills in various stages of review. This shift is paving the way for another 5th Amendment/fundamental right challenge.

The Ninth Circuit Raich court concluded: "For now, federal law is blind to the wisdom of a future day when the right to use medical marijuana to alleviate excruciating pain may be deemed fundamental. Although that day has not yet dawned, considering that during the last ten years eleven states have legalized the use of medical marijuana, that day may be upon us sooner than expected."

 

[Ernst]

Ontario closer than ever to legalization of marijuana

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If the government does not respond within 90 days with a successful delay or re-regulation of marijuana, the drug will be legal to possess and produce in Ontario.

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Sarah Boesveld Apr 13, 2011 – 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Apr 12, 2011 10:55 PM ET
Ontario is one step closer to the legalization of marijuana after the Ontario Superior Court struck down two key parts of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that prohibit the possession and production of pot.

The court declared the rules that govern medical marijuana access and the prohibitions laid out in sections 4 and 7 of the Act “constitutionally invalid and of no force and effect” on Monday, effectively paving the way for legalization.
If the government does not respond within 90 days with a successful delay or re-regulation of marijuana, the drug will be legal to possess and produce in Ontario, where the decision is binding.
The ruling stemmed from the constitutional challenge of Matthew Mernagh, a man who relies on medical marijuana to ease pain brought on by fibromyalgia, scoliosis, seizures and depression.
The Ontario Court of Appeal had previously recognized that to deprive someone with a serious illness of medical marijuana if it relieves their pain is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As a result of that, the federal government created the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations to let people legally get, possess and grow marijuana if they have a licence supported by a medical doctor.
Health Canada’s medical marijuana program regulates and approves which growers patients can buy from and how much they’re legally allowed to use for their treatment.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/04/13/ontario-closer-than-ever-to-legalization-of-marijuana/

Talk about one cool bit of news today.

 

[iNVESTIGATE]

Yeahhh boiiii!
I live in Ontario & I just heard about this.. let's hope its not just a fuckin' tactic of some sort. And goes the 90 days w/out a challenge....

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/O...alization+unconstitutional/4604943/story.html

Somehow i can see DHS and the USA getting pissed at the biggest province connected to the States having completely legal marijuana. And i know for a fact that they're trying to get a 'red light district' in and/or around Toronto Island.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/03/23/mammoliti-sextrade-toronto-island.html


The new Amsterdam yo! lol haha

 

[Serapis]

We have 17 states that have basically told the US Government to get over it in regards to medical marijuana... More are on the way... eventually, the constitutionality of teh CSA will be challenged, if so many find relief, and doctors are prescribing it, certainly the CSA is incorrect in regards to medical benefits. On one hand, the US government claims that Marijuana has NO Medicinal value, yet on the other hand, they hold a patent on the medical use of marijuana. That patent alone could be used in an argument that the government is suppressing a fundamental right to treat pain in alternative ways... Opium is illegal, but getting opiates from your Dr is OK? What is the fucking logic of blocking a much safer, cheaper to acquire medicine that has no proven addiction properties? My only logical answer is that pharmaceuticals have legislators by the balls.... campaign contributions and 527 soft money...

 

[g off]

Hi, I am a canadian, here is a little news to open your eyes


http://www.thestar.com/news/article/973886--pot-laws-ruled-unconstitutional

Our doctors have basically boycotted the whole Medical Marijuana Program thus forcing those in need of medicine to serve the black market. It has created a bigger black market demand than before. It is an absolute joke.

 

[deprave]

90 more days till I possibly emigrate to canada 5 minutes down the road.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

It will obviously be challenged, but I hope it stands and we can actually get somewhere in the legalization process

 

[Ernst]

90 more days till I possibly emigrate to Canada 5 minutes down the road.

Canada dreaming on such a winters day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UcQDUR-fU

 

[Ernst]

It will obviously be challenged, but I hope it stands and we can actually get somewhere in the legalization process

Rain or Shine that Judge Rocks!