Toronto (Canada), Apr 14 (EFE).- The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this Friday that the prohibition of the province of Quebec against the domestic cultivation of cannabis plants is constitutional.
Canada in 2018 legalized the recreational use of marijuana for those over 18 years of age and allowed users to grow up to four cannabis plants per household.
But the Canadian government also authorized the country’s provinces to establish their own rules if they respected the spirit of the law that legalized the use of marijuana.
Quebec decided to increase the legal age of consumption from 18 to 19 years and prohibit the personal cultivation of marijuana plants, which forces consumers to buy the drug in official establishments of the provincial government.
Another Canadian province, Manitoba, has also banned the domestic cultivation of marijuana.
In 2019, a Quebec citizen, Janick Murray-Hall, went to court, finding Quebec’s ban unconstitutional.
Initially, the Quebec Superior Court sided with Murray-Hill, but the Quebec government challenged the decision and won the case in the Court of Appeals.
Murray-Hall decided to take her lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Canada, the country’s highest judicial authority, which today said Quebec’s rules are constitutional because the ban’s goal is to “direct consumers to a controlled source of supply.” do not prevent its consumption.
