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March 27th, 2023 The fight for an acceptable medical cannabis program continues as the Community Safety Unit (CSU) raids the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club (VCBC) on March 23, 2023, for the third time since cannabis was legalized in 2018. The past raids occurred in November 2019, and then again in June 2020. This third raid […]
A large moving party is being planned to bring the cannabis products, supplies and paperwork from where the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club has operated for almost 22 years to its new home. After being based on Johnson St. since 1996, the VCBC is moving a few blocks away to the corner of Quadra St. and […]
For Immediate Release Thursday December 22, 2022 Victoria, B.C.: The oldest medical cannabis provider in Canada will be moving in the new year, after its new landlord gave the society an eviction notice, effective Jan 2, 2022, just before the Christmas break. On December 14, lawyers for Bluebird Core Associates Inc. served the Victoria Cannabis […]
Owen Smith It may come as a surprise to some but not to others that the country fighting for democracy and freedom in the world is also the origin country of the people who began our path to legalization in Canada. The people who I’m referring to are the Doukhabor Ukrainians of the Canadian prairies. […]
For Immediate Release November 16, 2022 Victoria, B.C.: Another strong letter of support for the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club to get an exemption from the Cannabis Act has come from the Victoria federal Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins. The VCBC has been advocating for an exemption from the Cannabis Act for years in order to […]
Compiled and written by Ted Smith and Jacq Kittel We are pleased to present our formal answers to Health Canada’s review of the Cannabis Act. They are conducting this review as a key component of the legislative process to gather public input via online engagement. The Cannabis Act has been highly problematic and inadequate since […]
With most recreational producers and retailers in the cannabis sector struggling to make a profit, there is very little incentive to save the medical cannabis program amongst them. It is hard to blame the recreational cannabs industry for wanting the business, given how various levels of government are making it very difficult to turn a […]
Ever since the first judge decided cannabis had medical benefits that patients had a constitutional right to access, Health Canada and doctos have fought tooth and nail to discredit, diminish, dismiss, and undermine the acceptance of this plant as a legitimate medicine. From the mid 1990’s, doctors have been fighting the medical cannabis program and […]
Virtually every professional body that deals with medical cannabis regulations would be happy to see the whole medical cannabis system disappear. With that in mind, Health Canada has produced a public survey intended to gain feedback about the effects of legalization with a question at the end designed to justify doing just that. While there […]
Long before there was a medical cannabis program, patients across Canada relied on local groups of compassionate advocates who provided high-quality, low-cost products. Instead of including these medicinal providers in the regulations for medical use, or years later when cannabis was made legal, Health Canada has dismissed these groups as non-compliant. Now that the federal […]