The road to medical freedom is still rocky By Joy Davies “Remember me the way I was” is what the note said that the policeman found on Priscilla’s bathroom counter. My God, after 10 years of living with excruciating pain, after 10 years of doctors and specialists, they put her through every pharmaceutical they could […]
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Cannabis Compliance in the UK
How Jim “Pinky” Starr is Legally Allowed to Bring Cannabis Into the UK By Mark Knowles Good news, in my last update I mentioned meeting U.K. cannabis activist Jim “Pinky” Starr, at the UK Hemp expo last year. Well, it looks like he has found a loophole in the law here in Britain, under article […]
Examining the Parker decision…ten years later
By Ted Smith This summer marks 10 years since Health Canada was ordered to provide access to cannabis to people in chronic pain, by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. While the use of cannabis as medicine goes back thousands of years, decades of being missing from Western medicine cabinets meant the public’s knowledge of […]
An Interview With: Elizabeth May
The Greens on mandatory minimums and legalization Cannabis Digest: Do you know anything about Hempology 101 in Victoria, or what we do as an organization? Elizabeth May: No We have been involved in the Victoria scene for 15 years. We are an advocacy group for hemp and marijuana—both sides of the cannabis coin. We have […]
Cannabis Carols
Here are two more Cannabis Christmas Carols for your collection. If you would like the whole set, come out to the Ministry of Health , in Victoria, on December 22nd at 7 pm
The Shake from the Smoke: A Catalyst for Change
By Allister Greene The shock waves have started. The epicenter is California, and though there is no surprise there, this is not an earthquake, this is a revolution, and this is legalization. In a very short time, all cannabis users, activists, and supporters worldwide, will be watching as Californians take to the busy ballot polls […]
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Mandatory Minimums the Same Under any Name
A history of the Conservative government’s push for mandatory minimum sentences, what they are, and how to fight back By Jacob Hunter On Mar. 3, 2010, the Conservative Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson, reintroduced his party’s Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Legislation (previously known as C-15) into the Senate. The bill is now known as S-10; “S” to […]
Issue #25 Summer 2010
Jack Herer 1939-2010 Contents Updates, Warnings, Suggestions Clubs Raided Publisher’s Note Editorial New Clubs Opened Bill S-10 Hempology 101 10 Places For Activists to Focus Jack Herer MP Dr. Keith Martin Interview Product Testing Cops and Cannabis Islamic Hashish Culture Pt.2 Member Profile Homebase Pot Poem Team 420 Racing Cannabis Carols Cannabis Crossword Club Listings […]
LOVE & HEMP
By Kristen Mann Jack began life in New York State on June 18, 1939, two years after the criminalization of cannabis in America, and at the brink of the Second World War. Jack lead a fairly normal child- hood, however, he lost his father at the beginning of his adolescence. At 17, during the height of […]