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SCOC ruling is great news, Dycar says
Company seeking to bring facility to town says expanded definition of medical marijuana means more potential jobs TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Though Dycar Pharmaceuticals hasn’t even set up shop yet in Cranbrook, there are already plans for expansion due to Thursday’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling on medical marijuana. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled against the federal government to expand the definition of medical marijuana beyond the dried form and into edible consumables.
“The prohibition of non-dried forms of medical marijuana limits liberty and security of the person in a manner that is arbitrary and hence is not in accord with the principles of fundamental justice,” said the written judgement. Dycar Pharmaceuticals is a company that is planning to set up a medical marijuana facility in Cranbrook.
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Wild artists take faces off at Vaults Gallery BARRY COULTER
STEWART WILSON PHOTO
The animal community at Idlewild Lake is very much in evidence as the summer gets underway, and the drawdown of the lake’s water levels continues in advance of the decommissioning of the lake’s dam. See Page 2 for a special photo feature.
An intriguing new art exhibit is opening Monday, June 15, at the Vaults Gallery at Cranbrook Photo on Baker Street. “Face-Off” is the theme of a Mount Baker Secondary School project, featuring dozens of works by students in the visual arts program. The exhibit runs through the week until June 18. The show is largely composed of work by Grade 11 and 12 students, thought there are some Grade 10s’ pieces as well, Art Teacher Cheryl Wilkinson said. Wilkinson told the students their pieces could be on anything that two-word term ‘Face-Off’ implies. “It can have to do
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The MBSS art exhibit ‘Face-Off’ runs at the Vaults Gallery at Cranbrook Photo June 15-18. with hockey, or any other combat sport,” she said. “But it also has to do with removing the surface of something — if you’re looking at people’s homes, for exam-
ple, when the ‘face’ is off something, and you can see inside, it’s not always what it seems on the outside.”
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