Medical

Patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) recently discovered that a second patient at has been denied a transplant in the past year because of their medical marijuana use. In response, ASA sent a letter today to the Cedars-Sinai Transplant Center on behalf of Toni Trujillo, a qualified medical marijuana patient who was removed from the kidney transplant list earlier this year. Trujillo has had kidney problems for most of her life and has been on dialysis for the past 5 years, ever since an existing kidney transplant began failing.

It’s been 30 days since R v. Mernagh was argued before Ontario Court of Appeal. If we’re lucky a ruling from the panel of three judges – who are known to vote in tandem – could be done sometime in August. Could be sooner or later, but it took 90 days to write the original ruling. Given the gravity of R v. Mernagh, I’m anticipating the justices to examine this issue very closely. They’re not going to take striking down personal marijuana possession and grow laws and a government run program lightly.