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Native American Rights to Sacrament

The long battle to religious freedom By M. Allister Greene   The fight for religious freedoms in the U.S. is one that is best represented by the struggles, court battles, and individuals that have tried to live in many different levels of a traditional Native American life. The difficulty is after hundreds of years of […]

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Justice Matters: MMJ and the Ministry

Get your legal questions answered by a professional By Jesse Stamm For this article of the Cannabis Digest, I have chosen to discuss the involvement of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) as it relates to persons who use medical marijuana. The MCFD is the government agency responsible for child protection laws, and […]

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Concentrating on Cannabinoids

(figure 1) CDSA Schedule 2   Exploring methods of cannabis resin extraction By Owen Smith What we legalized in 2012 In my last article I chronicled the constitutional challenge for cannabis extraction that I helped bring before the BC Supreme Court earlier this year. The result of the case was the immediate freedom of people […]

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U.S. Presidential Candidates on Pot

Obama, Romney, or Paul—who deserves the cannabis vote? By M. Allister Greene Polarization in the American political system is as common as house flies in an election year—be it in personalities of candidates, party supporters, or positions on hot button issues. This year is not turning out any differently, nor will the scale change with […]

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Here Comes The Tax Man

Cannabis Buyers’ Club to Incorporate By Ted Smith   It was not a surprise when Special Enforcement Officers from the Canada Revenue Agency showed up at the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada in early May to announce that I was under investigation. After over 16 years of being very public about selling cannabis products to […]

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Medicine Man Steps Down

Dedicated activist John Cook closes Halifax CBC of C By Debbie Stultz-Giffin Due to anticipated difficulties with the proposed MMAR scheduled to come into effect later that year I had my first opportunity to work with media in early 2001. All patients seeking exemptions would need, among other things, a specialist to verify their need […]

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A Sensible BC

Dana Larsen spearheads a new initiative to decriminalize By Amie Gravell Decriminalization: Shuffling descriptions of criminality and shuffling perceptions of criminality. I first heard about the Sensible BC campaign from Dana Larsen when he spoke at the 13th Cannabis Convention at UVic. I came into marijuana advocacy and activism through a deep desire to speak […]