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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1- What do you think about the proposed THC limits for the new classes of cannabis products? The 10 mg per serving limit is far too low for consumers, especially anyone using cannabis for medical purposes. There are several reasons this limit is unreasonable. After advocating for the end of prohibition for 24 years, it […]
Tomorrow is the public’s last opportunity to send comments to Health Canada regarding regulations controlling the production and sale of edible and topical cannabis products, as well as other concentrates! This is a common tactic of Health Canada; They give interested taxpayers two months to submit answers to a handful of questions, appearing open to […]
Founded in January 1996, the VCBC is the oldest compassion club in the world, with a growing membership of more than 7,000 patients. From the beginning, one of the fundamental pillars of the club has been the provision of food and skin products, which were historically not available in the black market and were not […]
Thurs July 26, 2018 Dear Carol James, Thank you so very much for taking the time to meet with me, Julia and Clea from the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club a few weeks ago to discuss the various problems we see with the Cannabis Act and other provincial regulations. In operation since 1996, we help […]
Twenty two years ago, at the tender age of 25, I started to attend Hempology 101 meetings and was infected with a passion that has fueled me in a course that would change Canadian history. That passion brought me together with the most incredible woman I have ever met, a woman who died at home […]
Ending my fantastic career as a cannabis activist by interviewing the mayor of Victoria, Lisa Helps, has been a perfect encore performance. After 22 years of struggling, this very friendly conversation about the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, the city licensing dispensaries, smoking lounges and April 20 clearly shows how far our movement has progressed in […]