Originally posted on Lift! By Owen Smith As jurisdictions in the United States and around the world begin to repeal aspects of cannabis prohibition, the emerging businesses and production facilities have begun to introduce a higher standard for cannabis derivative products. Testing laboratories have the ability to isolate and reject contaminants and meet requirements for […]
Month: July 2015
From the Ashes Rise a Phoenix
By Dean Schwind “I’m gonna change you like a remix, Then I’ll raise you like a phoenix” – Fall Out Boy With the winds of change blowing at gale force in the world of medical cannabis it’s challenging to keep up with all the new players, regulations, and landmark legal battles surrounding the weed. Generally, […]
Good, Bad and Ugly Dispensary Licensing Bylaws
By Ted Smith News that Vancouver and Victoria city councils are ready to license cannabis dispensaries has created a huge stir, as it defies federal law and places several unreasonable restrictions on medical providers. With each city witnessing a surge in storefront cannabis establishments, and with the police reluctant to waste resources busting clubs when […]
Why Do Canadian Teens Use More Cannabis?
By Jerry Golick Horror of horrors, Canadian teens smoke more marijuana per capita than anybody else in the world. Obviously, there is something wrong with these kids. Or is there? In 2013, UNICEF released a report on Child Well-Being in Rich Countries. A portion of the information for this report was based on a 2009 World […]
Reasonable Regulations for Cannabis, Can they Exist?
A Prologue to Reasonable Regulations for Cannabis, If Such Things Can Exist By Judith Stamps On Sunday, July 19, 2015, Conscious Living Network, a volunteer-based society in Vancouver BC, hosted its first Cannabis Conference. The panel on cannabis policy was mildly polarized: activist Marc Emery expressed the view that there should be no regulations for […]
Deciphering R.v.Smith
Government Issues Section 56 Exemptions By Owen Smith The landslide 7-0 decision from the Supreme Court of Canada in my favour is now a landmark in the landscape of Canadian cannabis litigation. The facts that we assembled form a fortified field position for further advancements against the forces of cannabis prohibition. While the war wages […]
Making Cannabis NORML
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws of Canada By Ted Smith Never has there been a more important time for cannabis activists across Canada to work together as much as possible. With so much momentum towards positive change happening, we need to coordinate our efforts to ensure that new regulations governing the […]
Personal Gardens are the Foundation
Allowing Home Gardens Must Be Foundational To Any Future Cannabis Regulation Policy By Judith Stamps The title you’ve just read is the conclusion to today’s blog. To arrive at it, I followed this series of thoughts. 1. PROPERTY: In the early modern era—17th and early 18th centuries—political theorists asked themselves this question: If […]
Jamaica Goes Medical and Sacramental: The Ganja Bill
By Ras Kahleb “The Ganja Bill is a new dispensation…it is the first Public Act that recognizes Rastafari” Mark Golding – MOJ Since prohibition in Jamaica during the late 1930’s the ganja plant has been associated with madness and criminality. Like many other governments around the globe the Jamaican government in recent past has considered […]
High Court Heroics
By Ted Smith (editors note: Health Canada has since made a response to the Smith ruling, read about it HERE) Cries of relief and outrage could be heard across Canada early in the morning, last June 11. Tears of joy streamed down many faces as news spread about another blow to cannabis prohibition, though not […]