Man with medical marijuana denied entry to CN Tower

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A Brantford man’s trip to the CN Tower turned ugly when he was denied entry after security found a container holding his medical marijuana.

Mike Knox was recently prescribed medical marijuana to deal with chronic injuries he suffered in a car crash in 2015.

Knox’s trip to the Tower was cut short after officials at the CN Tower found his medical marijuana. Knox had included his prescription in the personal belongings he put into a bin at a security checkpoint.

After filing a complaint, CN Tower staff admitted that Mike should never have been turned away

Around Christmas, Burlington native Michael Korchak was denied entry on an Air Canada flight from Halifax to Toronto because he as carrying medical marijuana at a time when the airline only allowed weed on-board in pill form.

After the incident, air canada changed it’s policy to include weed in ‘leaf form’

In November, the Ontario Government introduced a policy that allowed medical marijuana users to smoke anywhere at anytime but after public backlash they revoked it but in terms of possession:

Health Canada says that users are allowed to carry the lesser of 150 grams of weed or thirty times their daily dosage.

Users can also board any domestic flight with their medicine but to avoid potential hassle, patients are advised to keep medicine in their original bottles just like you would pills from a pharmacy so that all the identifying information is on the bottle so authorities can verify it easily.