The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that the ban on home cultivation of cannabis plants in the province of Quebec is constitutional.
Canada legalized recreational use of marijuana for people over the age of 18 in 2018 and allows users to grow up to four cannabis plants per household.
But the Canadian government also authorized the country’s provinces to set their own rules if they respected the spirit of the law legalizing marijuana use.
Quebec also decided to raise the legal age of consumption from 18 to 19 and ban personal cultivation of marijuana plants, forcing consumers to purchase the drug at official establishments of the provincial government.
Another Canadian province, Manitoba, has also banned the home cultivation of marijuana.
In 2019, Janique Murray-Hall, a Quebec citizen, went to court, finding Quebec’s ban unconstitutional.
Initially, the Quebec Superior Court sided with Murray-Hill, but the Quebec government challenged the decision and won the case in the Court of Appeals.
Murray-Hall decided to take her case to the country’s highest judicial authority, the Supreme Court of Canada, which said today that Quebec’s rules are constitutional because the ban aims to “direct consumers to a controlled source of supply.” Do not stop its consumption.
SOURCE: NATIONWORLDNEWS