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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Thu Jun 11, 2015, 10:27 PM Jun 2015

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Canada top court rules marijuana cookies, teas legal

Source: Yahoo! News / AFP

Ottawa (AFP) - Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the definition of medical marijuana to allow users to bake it into cookies or brew pot leaves for tea instead of only smoking it.

The case involved a marijuana club baker who was charged with drug trafficking after being caught with 200 cannabis cookies.

Government rules restricted medical marijuana to "dried" pot leaves that could only be smoked.

But many users felt smoking marijuana was harmful, in the same way cigarettes are.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/canada-top-court-rules-marijuana-cookies-teas-legal-202542439.html

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Canada top court rules marijuana cookies, teas legal (Original Post) Little Tich Jun 2015 OP

When are the Western countries going to end this farcical prohibition? Chakab Jun 2015 #1

Sounds fair to me alboe Jun 2015 #2

Cookies are the way to go Canoe52 Jun 2015 #3

Government rules restricted medical marijuana to "dried" pot leaves that could only be smoked. Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #4

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Chakab

(1,727 posts)

1. When are the Western countries going to end this farcical prohibition?

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Thu Jun 11, 2015, 10:46 PM

Jun 2015

alboe

(192 posts)

2. Sounds fair to me

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Thu Jun 11, 2015, 11:02 PM

Jun 2015

Canoe52

(2,949 posts)

3. Cookies are the way to go

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Fri Jun 12, 2015, 12:23 AM

Jun 2015

For those that can't smoke marihuana. My wife eats part of a cookie at night to combat insomnia.

Elmer S. E. Dump

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4. Government rules restricted medical marijuana to "dried" pot leaves that could only be smoked.

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Fri Jun 12, 2015, 09:07 AM

Jun 2015

Leaves? It's the BUDS people!!

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