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Podcast: Brian Crombie Radio Hour
Episode: Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1566 - Outlaw Patients: How Courts — Not Politics — Legalized Cannabis in Canada
Description: In this episode of The Brian Crombie Radio Hour, Brian sits down with Russell Barth, Ottawa-based medical cannabis advocate and author of Outlaw Patients: A Medical Marijuana Memoir, for a candid, deeply personal conversation about pain, recovery, and the real story behind cannabis legalization in Canada. Russell’s journey begins with fibromyalgia so severe it left him in a wheelchair for more than five years — and a recovery that challenges conventional assumptions about medicine, disability, and treatment. But this is more than a health story. It’s a revealing look at how patient-led court battles, not political generosity or tax incent...