Medicinal cannabis user organizes protest after unlicensed Saskatoon dispensaries forced to shutter

Alicia Yashcheshen credits medicinal cannabis for keeping her alive after she developed Crohn’s disease following a bad reaction to a prescription, Vioxx, which resulted in anorexia.
“If I don’t have cannabis oil, I can’t eat,” she said.
Yashcheshen, acting director of the Saskatchewan Medical Cannabis Association, is organizing a protest at Saskatoon’s city hall Saturday afternoon, in response to the shutdown of unlicensed medicinal cannabis dispensaries in t