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Safe Inhalation Spaces Facing Shutdown By New Dispensary Rules

Ted Smith

Ted Smith While there are many reasons to celebrate medical cannabis dispensaries getting licenses in Vancouver and Victoria, the new bylaws could be forcing the closure one of the most important components of a true compassion club.  Without a safe place to consume their medicine, many patients would be forced to smoke outdoors or in […]
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Marihuana Tax Act of 1937

Ted Smith

by Ted Smith While the potential of hemp was being explored by many farmers and entrepreneurs at the turn of the 20th century, the competition was quietly working in the background to take it out of the  picture.  Though some countries like Canada prohibited cannabis as early as 1923, it was not until 1937 that […]
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Word Wars: Language Politics and Medical Cannabis

Judith Stamps

  There have always been regimes of truth underpinned by churches or political economies, and supported by laws and law enforcement.  Reefer madness comes to mind.  But so does the notion that gays are insane (in North America, officially so listed until 1973); that women are not fit to vote (until 1917 in Canada and […]

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