CTV: Health Canada debating future of medical marijuana

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The Debate on the use of medical marijuana continues in parliament hill.

Legal use of the drug has been in a grey zone for almost a decade, since the Supreme Court of Canada ruled marijuana use for medical reasons was permissible.

However acquiring marijuana has been a problem for thousands of would-be users. Many doctors have refused to provide prescriptions for marijuana, so compassion clubs and dispensaries were handing it out to anyone who showed up with what was considered to be a valid medical reason. Those compassion clubs were recently shut down by Montreal police following complaints that they had essentially turned into centres for drug trafficking.