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Canada to privatize its medical marijuana industry
Canada’s Conservative government will soon stop producing and distributing medical marijuana, leaving it up to the private sector in a policy change that angered critics on Monday. Canada’s Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq made the announcement on Sunday, claiming current regulations “have left the system open to abuse.” “We have heard…
Federal agency backtracks on pro-marijuana info after 11 days
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has removed information about the anti-tumor effects of marijuana from its online treatment database just eleven days after becoming the first federal agency to formally recognize marijuana’s medicinal properties. The Colorado Independent first reported that the NCI replaced a sentence about marijuana’s “possible direct anti-tumor…
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