The crackdown on city pot dispensaries in May 2016 was on solid constitutional ground based on a Toronto judge’s decision released Friday. Justice Heather McArthur was asked to decide whether the laws were valid in May 2016 when Toronto police conducted raids as part of Project Claudia. 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the law under which he was charged, breached his charter rights because a valid program making medicinal pot readily available did not exist in 2016. New medicinal pot regulations came into force on Aug. 24, 2016, before the suspension period expired. The suspension had the effect of extending the life of Ottawa’s medicinal marijuana program, McArthur wrote.

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 19:18 UTC