The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Feb. 23
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA USERS SOAR: The number of Canadians registered to purchase medical marijuana from licensed producers has jumped by leaps and bounds. Health Canada says at the end of last year, almost 130,000 Canadians signed up with the country’s 38 licensed cannabis producers. It’s a 32 per cent jump from the more than 98,000 registered as of last September 2016 and up from the 7,900 granted access to medicinal cannabis in mid-2014.
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