Activism Canada Feature Politics

Press Release: VCBC Rezoning Application

For Immediate Release: Monday, May 12, 2025 Victoria, B.C.: By Ted Smith A cannabis retail rezoning application for 1625 Quadra Street and the $7,500 fee has been sent to the City of Victoria by the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club. Despite not being in compliance with the Cannabis Act, the VCBC is anticipating city council will […]

Canada Feature Medical Science

Grassroots Harm Reduction Uprooted By Legalization

By Ted Smith Research acknowledging the benefits of compassion clubs over the legal medical cannabis program and the stark, negative consequences of legalization have been recently published in the Harm Reduction Journal.  In the study, Marilou Gagnon and Heather Hobbs explain how compassion clubs have practiced harm reduction for decades, yet they have been left […]

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Compassion Club Gets Eviction For Christmas

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 […]

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Activism Canada Legal Politics

COMPASSION CLUBS BELONG AT THE HEART OF MEDICAL CANNABIS PROGRAM

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 […]

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COULD LEGALIZATION TRUMP MEDICAL POT?

Cannabis Review Threatens Patient Gardens: A delayed review of the Cannabis Act asking Canadians a limited selection of questions has finally begun, including questions designed to justify shutting down the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR).  This review allows citizens to respond to several survey questions, or add other comments, until Nov 21.  […]