Has the Federal Government Just Done a Complete About-Face on Weed Liberalization?

Following two major setbacks in the fight for access to medicinal marijuana, some fear the federal government has swung from offering to supply cannabis and rethinking possession laws to declaring a war on the drug.

Health minister Anne McLellan backed off of the government's medicinal marijuana program in a speech to the Canadian Medical Association on Aug. 19, just days after police stormed the Toronto Compassion Centre (TCC). The confluence of those events has raised suspicions that the feds ordered the raid.

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