Author: Ted Smith
Help The VCBC Stay Alive
Help The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club Stay AliveWritten by Ted Smith,Edited by Jacqueline Kittel It has been less than a month since the Community Safety Unit raided the VCBC on November 14th, 2019. We were raided by the CSU, accompanied by the Victoria Police, and thousands of dollars worth of cannabis medicine were stolen. We […]
Why We Protest When Politicians Are Not Listening
One of the most potent forms of activism is protesting on the street but getting large numbers and media attention is difficult to generate. Typically only politicians in opposition parties will attend rallies, with those in power heavily protected from hearing voices of discontented citizens. While this may deter some from organizing small scale protests, […]
VCBC Forms New Processing Company
The pledges to purchase shares in The Club Bakery, the processing company being created by the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, will start being accepted on June 11. As outlined in the Strategic Plan 1.0 released by the club earlier this year, this new business will eventually take over the production of edibles and concentrates […]
Community Safety Unit visits the VCBC
May 29, 2019 at 1:30pm, the VCBC was visited by the BC Community Safety Unit (CSU) and the agents established an initial point of contact with our club. “The Community Safety Unit (CSU), under the Policing and Security Branch of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, is responsible for compliance and enforcement under […]
Counter to the Clear Air Bylaw – The VCBC responds to Island Health
Issue In 2018 the CRD passed amendments to the Clean Air Act to include cannabis smoking or vaping. Recently both Island Health and Worksafe BC paid a surprise inspection to the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, which has maintained a smoking room for patients at 826 Johnson St since 2001. The club has been given an […]
The VCBC Strategic Plan Goes Public!
Cannabis legalization in Canada has turned the industry upside down, from ma and pa growers to large corporate machines. In the middle of this mayhem, old compassion clubs like the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club have some difficult decisions to make regarding the transition into the infant legal scheme. To explain how this transformation will […]