The Number of Canadians Signed Up for Medical Cannabis Triples in Single Year

As Canada prepares for full-scale legalization next year, more and more Canadians sign up for medical marijuana.

While the United States continues to tussle with the idea of allowing cannabis use for medical and recreation purposes, our friendly Northern neighbor Canada has been prepping to legalize marijuana nationwide by next year. Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recently admitted that the police would continue enforcing the current marijuana laws until they’re changed, it hasn’t stopped the Canadian people from signing up for the country’s growing medical cannabis registry. 

According to Heath Canada statistics, there’s been a major boom in citizens who have turned to marijuana for some sort of medicinal purpose. At the end of September, around 100,000 Canadians had obtained prescriptions and registered to buy cannabis from an approved grower. This number is a whopping increase from the 30,537 people that were registered at the same point last year. ...

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