Canada’s Cannabis Journal since 2010
Be It Resolved That Cannabis Plants, Like Cats, Require Minimum Levels of Regulation, If Any: A Ramble on Regulations Judith Stamps Imagine a group of city planners and cannabis medicine specialists, designing a system for patient access. Because the oldest compassion clubs are, to date, the best available authorities on medical cannabis and community liaison, […]
Ted Smith If you care about cannabis, this is the year to grow some. Whether you intend on smoking it, juicing it, baking it in a cookie or giving it to your cousin, this year it is very important for everyone who can to grow a few plants in their gardens or living room. Instead […]
Owen Smith On Wednesday April the 6th I will be attending a free Cannabis Lab Testing Seminar at The Hive in Vancouver, BC. The event is hosted by Canlio and Wagon Wheel. These two groups have recently combined to offer producers, dispensaries and patients access to affordable lab testing services. The event highlights how cannabis […]
Ted Smith With the legalization of cannabis just around the corner in Canada, there is a great deal to discuss. Giving stakeholders an opportunity to debate various points regarding the use, production and distribution of cannabis should contribute to the public discourse. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the International Hempology 101 Society will begin hosting […]
Judith Stamps Classical liberalism, endemic to North American thinking, is a rights oriented philosophy that blossomed in the 19th century. Its best-known proponent, John Stuart Mill, argued that the good society is one that offers the most extensive personal liberty to all members compatible with everyone having the same. Influential as it was, this outlook […]
Ted Smith There is no better way to prove that cannabis does not make you lazy then to get up early in the morning to run 10 kilometers in a 12 foot tall pot leaf costume. Doing it at a large half-marathon, with a bong hit station halfway, is the best way to get the […]
Judith Stamps We must not foster the belief that there is a radical dichotomy between Health Canada Licensed Producers (LPs) and medical cannabis dispensaries. And if we are hanging on to an attitude that says: it’s-us-versus-them, we should dump it. So say representatives of the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries (CAMCD), spokespersons for LPs, […]
Ted Smith This month marks 15 years since the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club secured a storefront to provide cannabis products to patients. Since we were operating a clearly illegal enterprise, the landlord was nervous about having a store that sold cannabis openly and requested we create another business to act as a front for the […]
Cannabis Culture and the Little Red Hen Dana Larsen Before Premiers, liquor unions and corporations start falling all over each other in an effort to cash in on legal cannabis sales, let’s remember the real reasons we should be ending cannabis prohibition in Canada. Yes, we should be legalizing cannabis in Canada, but not because […]
Ted Smith Many cannabis enthusiasts were tickled green when the Liberals won the federal election last fall after promising to legalize. However, things have not changed quick enough for most in the field, and the appointment of former Toronto chief of police Bill Blair to lead the changes has made it clear the government intends […]