{"id":444462,"date":"2011-06-20T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/nova-scotia-told-to-buy-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:10:29","slug":"nova-scotia-told-to-buy-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/nova-scotia-told-to-buy-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia told to buy marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"62.6146788991\"><span><span>20 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>14:10 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Canadian province has been ordered to pay for an ill couple&#8217;s medical marijuana, Canadian media report.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Scotia income assistance appeals board ruled the couple needed treatment but were unable to afford growing supplies, CBC news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The board ordered Nova Scotia to pay 2,500 Canadian dollars ($2,541; \u00a31,569) to set up the growing operation.<\/p>\n<p>The wife was injured in a car accident and her husband suffers from glaucoma and smoke marijuana to ease the pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I don&#8217;t smoke marijuana, I have so much pain that I don&#8217;t want to get out of bed. I have no energy, I don&#8217;t want to do nothing,&#8221; the woman told CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the set-up costs, the province was also ordered to pay 100 Canadian dollars every three months towards the running costs of the growing operation.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Nova Scotia said the province was referring the decision to its lawyers but had yet to make a decision on whether to appeal, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s medical marijuana law came into effect in July 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Patients are required to have licenses to use the drug for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13845963\" title=\"Nova Scotia told to buy marijuana\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nova Scotia told to buy marijuana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 20 June 2011 Last updated at 14:10 ET A Canadian province has been ordered to pay for an ill couple&#8217;s medical marijuana, Canadian media report. The Nova Scotia income assistance appeals board ruled the couple needed treatment but were unable to afford growing supplies, CBC news reports. The board ordered Nova Scotia to pay 2,500 Canadian dollars ($2,541; \u00a31,569) to set up the growing operation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-444462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nova Scotia told to buy marijuana - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/nova-scotia-told-to-buy-marijuana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nova Scotia told to buy marijuana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"20 June 2011 Last updated at 14:10 ET A Canadian province has been ordered to pay for an ill couple&#039;s medical marijuana, Canadian media report. 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