
Medical Marijuana Corruption
Canada legalized medical marijuana more than a decade before recreational use, setting up a licensing system meant to connect patients with legal access. This 16x9 investigation follows patients, doctors, and lawyers to show how that system gets gamed: some doctors charge hundreds of dollars for a single appointment and a signature, handing out licenses to people who show little medical need, while some lawyers build practices around pushing applications through as fast as possible. The film reports on patients who use their legal grow licenses as cover to cultivate marijuana for sale on the black market, turning a program built around compassionate access into a supply line for illegal dealing. Interviews with patients describe the financial pressure of paying repeatedly for paperwork, while doctors and lawyers defend their role in the system even as the investigation lays out the gaps in oversight that let both profiteering and diversion happen. The film closes on the larger question hanging over the program: whether it can be fixed before recreational legalization changes the stakes entirely.