A Kelowna man who uses medical marijuana for pain management after a spinal cord injury is preparing to put his growing equipment back together.
Bob Raven dismantled his outfit, after a Heath Canada warning that he must prove he’s stopped production, or risk being reported to the RCMP.
Now the courts have granted home growers a last minute reprieve that will allow them to continue production, with a court injunction, pending the outcome of a trial.
The CEO and founder of a medical marijuana education company, Don Schultz, say he thinks the injunction might be a good thing for both Health Canada, and patients, allowing both more time to move into a new system.
Schultz also notes that the court order limits medical marijuana users to holding 150 grams of marijuana or less. He says that could help Health Canada achieve it’s goal of public safety in the interim.
“I always thought allowing five plants or less would have stopped a lot of the criminal element,” Schultz claims.
Bob Raven is happy he can still grow marijuana for personal use, at least for now, but he still opposes the government limiting medical users to commercially produced product.
“I think it’s more about money, really,” Raven insists, “It’s the economics of the whole system that they’re wanting to change.”
Health Canada responded to the injunction by saying that while the courts have said there must be reasonable access to marijuana for medical purposes, the agency will continue to treat dried marijuana, as much as possible, like other narcotic drugs used for medical purposes.
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