A Take on Nurse Rona, Canada’s (Gulp) Health Minister If you are not a Canadian, let me introduce you to Rona Ambrose, Canada’s Minister of Health and Nurse Ratched for the Harper Government, Canada’s ruling so-called Conservatives. On April 25 she was speaking with CBC host Stephen Quinn, responding to the Vancouver City Council’s […]
CANNABIS AND YOUTH: EXPLODING THE CATEGORIES Judith Stamps T’is the season of the goblin, and once again we find ourselves confronted with media-driven Halloween goody scares. It is presently—as I scribble—Saturday, October 31st, and parents and kids of all ages are being warned to watch out, because people out there will be putting ‘marijuana’ into […]
Recent moves on the part of two city governments in BC, in defiance of federal law, to regulate medical cannabis dispensaries, and similar moves in twenty-three US states over the past two years represent giant steps forward on the road to legalizing medical cannabis. Key builders of that road have been patients and their companions […]
