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Pot Fiction

42 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Marijuana has been illegal in Canada since 1923, but by the time this CBC News investigation airs, it is sold openly in restaurants, smoothie shops, and vending machines in corner stores. Correspondent Mark Kelley visits the Canna Clinic, where a 65-second Skype consultation with a doctor is enough to leave him a card-carrying medical marijuana patient, legal since 2001 under rules the film shows have been quietly abandoned. Production has scaled up too: growers engineer strains for specific potencies and symptoms on something closer to a pharmaceutical assembly line than a black market. Law enforcement mostly looks away, some public officials back the industry with money as well as words, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government keeps insisting legalization will never happen while the trade expands under its nose. Kelley's camera treats the contradiction as the story itself, tracking a commercial industry building infrastructure and public support faster than the law that supposedly bans it can respond.