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VANCOUVER - Canada's marijuana confusion has become chaos.
The nation's medical cannabis scheme was found unconstitutional Wednesday by the Federal Court of Canada.
Federal Court Justice Michael Phelan said the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, which replaced the Medical Marihuana Access regulations in April 2014, violated the liberty and security interests of the charter.
He gave the government six months to fix the law.
"The access restrictions did not prove to reduce risk to health and safety or to improve access to marihuana — the purported objectives of the regulation," wrote Phelan, who heard evidence in the case last spring.
"In the alternative, even if some connection is found, the restriction is still overbroad and does not minimally impair section 7 rights . . . In sum, the law goes too far and interferes with some conduct that bears no connection to its objectives."
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