Immigration to Canada for Cannabis Use?
I’m a dual US and UK citizen and I have cerebral palsy and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
My prescribed Rinvoq, Meloxicam, and Baclofen, they help but I can still get very bad pain days.
My question is this, “would I be able to come to Canada for my medical treatment?” Cannabis is the only thing that can help, when my other medicines don’t. I get days like today where my prescribed medications do nothing.
Hopefully, the flair is correct.
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From the Canadian Immigration webpage, it seems like I’m medically inadmissible, but can anyone confirm?
-the health or social services needed to treat your health condition would negatively affect wait times for services in Canada, or -the services needed to treat and manage your health condition would likely cost more than the excessive demand cost threshold.
My Rinvoq is $70,000 per year without insurance, but my insurance here covers it.
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I don’t know what I can do. Living with Ankylosing Spondylitis is truly terrible, and in the US, I’m in Texas, which allows limited access to cannabis, but I don’t intend to stay here. The UK allows medical access but it must be approved by the Minister of Health. I’m a productive member of society, despite no job at the moment due to the Ankylosing Spondylitis. I treat it the best I can, and that’s productive, I’m also looking for work while treating it.
All in all, I’d use recreational and medical cannabis if admissible to Canada, and here’s why:
-I can walk in to a dispensary, buy recreationally, and use it medically, instead of going through the medical paperwork system, unless I can do it online. My handwriting is not legible due to my Cerebral Palsy. So if I can do medical use, I will need online forms. Truth be told, I don’t know if Canada has the medical prescriptions anymore now that recreational use it legal. Do you all still have medical specific strains or potencies on cannabis now that recreational use is nationally legal?