Cannabis Digest Summer Issue 49 – Cover Art

Minister Ambrose on Medical Cannabis – Now in plain english

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 […]

Patients Will Take Their Fight to Ottawa

Many will suffer and die from loss of their gardens   By Ted Smith War is seldom a simple affair. This includes the War on Drugs. This drug war is a fight for power: control of the economy, control of one’s health, control of government resources. It is a war which forces patients to suffer […]

Phantasmagorical Barriers to Legal Cannabis: A Gallery

Phantasmagoria:  1a. Images seen with the magic lantern, 19th century precursor to moving pictures 2a. A constantly shifting, complex succession of things seen or imagined as in a dream or fever state… Spinners of future tales on cannabis history—fictional or non—will need to draw on the succession of dreams and fever states that have created […]