Jia is a 4th year student who has excelled in her studies during her time a Queen's; she is getting ready to move to Montreal for graduate studies at McGill. Jia works hard at school and also does volunteer work for a local charity. This can leave her feeling pretty stressed, so she sometimes likes to relax with friends on the weekend. Recently she was at a party where some of her friends (all over 19) were consuming marijuana that they were growing themselves at home. Not a lot! Just a plant or two for their own personal use. Jia didn't try it - yet - she is cautious and wanted to make sure that she understood the health effects and also be sure she wasn't doing anything illegal! Jia is considering a professional career, and she knows any legal problems with drugs or alcohol could prevent her from becoming licensed in her profession.

Where should Jia look to make sure what her friends were doing was legal?

Jia is concerned about whether the laws might be different when she gets to Quebec for her studies at McGill. She has looked into the situation. She sees that Quebec is planning to pass legislation that will impose a complete ban on growing marijuana at home. From her research on federal law, she knows that the federal criminal law prohibitions have an exemption that allows individuals to "grow, from licensed seed or seedlings, up to 4 cannabis plants per residence for personal use." Assuming for now that Quebec could validly pass its law, Jia wonders whether

it will conflict with the federal law?

a) Yes, because the federal law allows you to grow marijuana at home, but

the Quebec law does not.

b) No, because the federal law does not require you to grow marijuana at

home, so you can follow both laws by complying with the proposed ban

in Quebec.

c) We would need to consider whether the ban in Quebec would frustrate

the purpose of the federal law.

d) Both A and C

e) Both B and C