BC judge strikes down part of medical marijuana law

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VICTORIA (NEWS1130) – A BC Supreme Court judge has struck down part of Canada’s medical marijuana law, ruling it’s okay to put pot in cookies.
    
But he’s also ordered Owen Smith to go on trial for baking pot cookies and giving them out to people.

Owen Smith says people shouldn’t be forced to smoke pot to relieve pain, “Hard to think that somebody would want to deny somebody a safer form of medicating.”
    
His lawyer hopes to convince a jury to acquit Smith on the basis of medical necessity.
    
“Because these products were unlawful at the time he was producing it, it was necessary for him to do so to alleviate the suffering of critically and chronically ill Canadians.”

Smith says people shouldn’t be forced to smoke pot to relieve their pain.

He was arrested in 2009 for baking pot cookies to give to others.

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