Joanne Garrah, Health Canada’s director of licensing and security for the department’s controlled substances and cannabis branch, told Norfolk’s Police Services Board earlier this month that the over-prescription of medicinal cannabis by physicians “is a concern to us.” Friday, Haldimand-Norfolk MP Diane Finley launched an online petition calling on the Trudeau government to tighten up rules governing the legal production of medical marijuana in Canada. — Monte Sonnenberg
An online petition calling on the Trudeau government to provide greater oversight of the production of cannabis was launched this week.
Word of the petitions comes against the backdrop of another major drug bust in Norfolk County.
The execution of a search warrant at a property on Townsend Concession 7 near Waterford Thursday netted illegal cannabis with an estimated street value of $2.4 million.
The seizure included recently…