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Owen Smith Extraction Ruling

๐Ÿ”ฅ Culture First mentioned: Ep. 113

A landmark Canadian court case involving Owen Smith and Ted Smith of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, which changed Canadian medical cannabis law from restricting patients to 'dried marijuana' to simply 'marijuana', thereby legalizing all forms of cannabis processing including extractions, edibles, and topicals for licensed patients.

Kirk Tousaw (Kirk Toad in the transcript) argued that under the existing law, even making cannabis tea constituted an 'extraction' that carried a mandatory two-year prison sentence. The absurdity of this argument helped win the case.

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