Medical marijuana landmark charter case has pot growers on edge

Shawn Davey won’t leave home without his driftwood walking stick, glasses and pocket vaporizer loaded with marijuana.

The 38 year-old former custom-car builder says he experiences numbness on his left side, gaps in short-term memory and chronic body pain – all permanent residuals of a traumatic brain injury and three-month long coma suffered after a vehicle accident in June of 2000.

He says the stick stabilizes him when vertigo takes hold— that the “vape” provides pain relief and that his doctor-prescribed, 25-gram a day marijuana intake is the reason he is able to function.

Davey is the first of five plaintiffs to testify before Federal Judge Michael L. Phelan in a case against Health Canada that will define the rules of medical marijuana growth in this country. 

Marijuana a "difference maker"

“You name them, I’ve taken them: Demerol, Oxy(contin), hydromorphs (morphine) all the pharmaceutical solutions,” Davey said as he stood...

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