About the Author

• Author: James G. Wigmore
• Pages: 554-554

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About the Author

James G. Wigmore worked as a forensic toxicologist for over twenty-nine

years at one of the foremost forensic laboratories in North America —

the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto, Ontario. He has testif‌ied in

over  criminal cases throughout Canada and in numerous personal

injury civil cases and coroner’s inquests. He has published over seventy

scientif‌ic articles in forensic toxicology, which have been cited by the

Supreme Court of Canada (R v St Onge-Lamoreux, ) and the High

Court in Cape Town, South Africa (S vs Hendricks, ). In , he

was awarded the prestigious Derome Award from the Canadi an Society

of Forensic Science in recognition of outstanding contributions in the

f‌ield of forensic sciences. From  to , he taught at the Robert F.

Borkenstein Course at Indiana University in Bloomington. Wigmore on

Cannabis is his third book published with Ir win Law.