{"id":1623,"date":"2003-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2003\/07\/30\/medical-marijuana-fight-continues\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:45:38","slug":"medical-marijuana-fight-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2003\/07\/30\/medical-marijuana-fight-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical-marijuana fight continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Cannabis crusader <STRONG>Alan Young, <\/STRONG>a professor&nbsp;at York's&nbsp;Osgoode Hall Law School,&nbsp;says Ottawa continues to do little to help seriously ill Canadians who smoke pot to ease pain and discomfort, reported <I>The Record<\/I> in Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo July 29. Young said the abysmal actions taken by government to provide marijuana for medicinal use are cumbersome and beyond the reach of people suffering from a variety of illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, liver diseases and AIDS. His remarks appeared in a story about the efforts of a Kitchener medical-marijuana user he represents to attend another court challenge of Canada\u2019s marijuana laws in Toronto, said The Record.<\/P><B><br \/>\n<P>On air<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><\/B><br \/>\n<LI>The host of the \"Stirling Faux Show\" (CHED-AM), Edmonton, discussed the conference <B><I>Kyoto and Sprawl: Building Cities That Work<\/B><\/I>, which wrapped up at York University's Glendon campus&nbsp;July 27.<B><br \/>\n<LI>Nancy White<\/B>, York University\u2019s media relations director, and doctoral students <B>Angela Aujla<\/B> and <B>Augustine Park<\/B>, of York\u2019s Graduate Student Association, discussed the impact of the double cohort on class sizes on \"Omni News,\" (OMNI 2), Toronto, July 28.<br \/>\n<LI>York University political science Professor <B>Saeed Rahnema<\/B> joined a panel discussion about the role of the media, journalists and the United Nations in the Iraq situation, with a focus on accuracy and availability of information, on \"Michael Coren Live\" (CTS-TV), Toronto, July 28.<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis crusader and Osgoode Professor Alan Young says Ottawa continues to do little to help seriously ill Canadians who smoke pot to ease pain... <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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