Doctors, dentists and pharmacists at the Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre (CHUS) have voted to allow patients to use medical marijuana in “exceptional circumstances and in certain conditions.”
Stewart Burrows spends most nights in pubs, playing cover tunes till 3 a.m., give or take, then driving back to the Châteauguay Valley. Waiting for him are his wife and three kids, and 20 heads of cattle from which he sells aged beef; $700 for 100 pounds.
Police have made scores of arrests against an alleged nationwide narcotics trafficking ring linked to organized crime that made an estimated $50 million in only six months.
Quebec has been joined by Ontario and British Columbia in voicing their skepticism over Stephen Harper's crime bill, telling Ottawa they will not pay for downloaded costs.
Quebec will soon decide if it will open supervised-injection clinics in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the province's health minister said Tuesday.