{"id":1377,"date":"2017-02-03T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2017-02-03T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:50:43","slug":"human-rights-board-orders-insurer-to-pay-medical-marijuana-costs-in-precedent-setting-case-cannabis-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Board Orders Insurer to Pay Medical Marijuana Costs in Precedent-Setting Case | Cannabis Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Nova Scotia human rights board has ruled that a patient\u2019s medical marijuana should be covered by his employee insurance plan in a potentially precedent-setting case. The decision, issued Jan. 30, ruled in favour of Gordon Skinner\u2019s claim that he faced discrimination when trying to access insurance coverage for his disability. Skinner, who suffers chronicRead More<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cannabisculture.com\/content\/2017\/02\/02\/human-rights-board-orders-insurer-pay-medical-marijuana-costs-precedent-setting-case\">Human Rights Board Orders Insurer to Pay Medical Marijuana Costs in Precedent-Setting Case | Cannabis Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nova Scotia human rights board has ruled that a patient\u2019s medical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39,3,48],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cannabis","tag-drugpolicy","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}