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 […]
Month: July 2012
Sacrament or Demon Weed
Churches struggle to accept cannabis while some call to end drug war Cannabis and I did not cross paths, in any real way, until I was in my mid-twenties. Like a child who had just discovered the truth about Santa Clause, I had to compare notes with my peers despite the taboo. As a former […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Patients Await Mernaugh Appeal Case
Matt Mernaugh and Paul Lewin hopefully deliver blow to cannabis laws By Al Graham In early May, I headed to Toronto to attend the Ontario Superior Court case of Matt Mernaugh. This case is about an ill Canadian who proved in an Ontario Court that he could not access the Health Canada medical marijuana program, […]
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 […]
EDITORIAL: Personal Production Under Attack
Andrew Brown Editor With another recent push by the Harper Government to make it clear that medical patients will be loosing the right grow their own medicine, there is a fair amount of anger and anxiety in the med pot community. First and foremost, we need to be honest about the true cause of the […]