Decision reserved on owning medical pot

A Federal Court judge has reserved a decision on expanding the criteria for who can currently grow their own medical marijuana.

Lawyer John Conroy appeared in Vancouver court Friday to ask Judge Michael Phelan to vary a ruling he made in February striking down legislation requiring patients to buy medical pot from designated growers. He gave the Liberals six months to come up with a new law and extended an injunction allowing 28,000 medical patients to continue growing or possessing cannabis.

But Conroy argues the ruling “overlooked or accidentally omitted" certain issues, and says the injunction should be expanded to include other patients who previously held permits to grow medical marijuana.