Pro-pot advocates marched from city hall to the legislature on Saturday to promote grow-your-own medical marijuana.

After a legal reprieve Friday, a group of 25 people braved the chilly air to raise awareness of new Health Canada rules that are posed to stop people from being able to grow marijuana in private residences.

Organizer Steven Stairs, who is also CEO of the Marijuana Party of Canada for Kildonan/St. Paul, said they also wanted to raise awareness on the recent action taken by police against area head shops.

He has used medical marijuana to treat his severe glaucoma for the past five years and says both of these issues are key to his health.

"It's a catch-22, the government tells us to use vaporizers, but then they want to ban the only places to buy them," he said about the police's recent raids on head shops.

Growing his own marijuana costs him significantly less and Stairs said it would cripple him financially if he had to pay for it from approved commercial producers.

Medical marijuana users were dealt some good news on Friday when a federal court judge issued an injunction against the government's plan to end the practice of grow-your-own medical marijuana.

Health Canada rules were set to eliminate the 30,000 current licenses for homegrown pot on April 1.

Friday's injunction will give these licensees an exemption until the Supreme Court of Canada makes a decision in the matter.

Stairs says this is a great step forward, but it isn't over yet.

"This injunction is a great achievement, is it the end of it all? No. It's the first victory in a battle that's been going on for decades," he said.

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