In 2001, in response to a court challenge, Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) was implemented in Canada, allowing patients to grow their own medicine. This law gave them a level of peace. But the federal government remained hostile to the idea, and so were a number of BC municipalities. In 2012, the peace ended. Health […]
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Time to be Blunt
I’m exhausted. Feeling drained. Mental meltdown… I think about cannabis and my head hurts. LOL – *Only with regards to the absolute insanity that surrounds it all on the GRAND SCALE. [su_quote]Don’t sweat the small stuff.[/su_quote] Plant a seed and go to jail. LOL How small can you get? You cannot help […]
High on Glass
Patrick Redbeard Vrolyk About 7 years ago i found myself living on a beautiful farm up in the mountains above Whistler. The property was perfect for a gathering of friends, a gathering of glass. (In our trade when we ‘ball’ up glass, we call that ‘gathering’ glass) I invited several of my pipe-making colleagues up […]
Amygdalar Control and the Art of Zen
Controlling the reptilian brain. You have three main portions of your brain. The Brainstem, the Cerebrum and the Limbic System which is the connection between first two. The brainstem is the primitive or reptilian portion and is responsible for keeping the species alive. It is responsible for autonomic function of heart rate and respiration. The […]
Cannabis in Costa Rica – Part 2
The Costa Rica Medicinal Cannabis Movement Will they succeed? In the last blog I introduced cannabis prohibition in Costa Rica from the perspectives I gathered while visiting earlier this year. My interview with Gerald Murray of the Costa Rica Medicinal Cannabis Movement suffered some technical difficulties but I was still able to ask […]
Why I am a Hemp Nut
Most people became involved in the cannabis movement to free the weed that we love to smoke. Not me. I got involved in this fight primarily to help hemp become legal and widely used. In every way possible, I am a hemp nut. Granted, I have spent most of my energy fighting to legalize the […]
The edible arms race
[su_quote] How much is too much? How many should I take? When should I take them? [/su_quote] Questions like these have been asked at dispensaries across North America for nearly two decades – patients seeking relief and looking for answers their doctors just can’t provide. The answer to each one of these questions is invariably […]
Weedy Blues: The Ballad of Murder and Marijuana: Part Two
In Weedy Blues Part One, we looked in detail at how newspapers in Canada, especially in BC, have helped to create a contemporary spectacle: the “grow-op” scare. Based on content analysis provided in Susan Boyd and Connie Carter’s Book, Killer Weed: Marijuana Grow-ops, Media and Justice, we noted that elements of this scare included harping […]
Divided We Fall . . .
It’s hard to explain to an outsider what is happening in the United States regarding cannabis laws. I don’t understand how a country called the UNITED states of America can be so ‘UN-united’. Imagine being a mother in the united states when your child is suffering, dying from illness you know Cannabis can help […]
Cannabinoid Receptors in the body and their Importance
In 1964 Raphael Macheoulam, an Israeli professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, isolated the key component THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) from an extract of a Cannabis Sativa plant. THC is the compound in Cannabis (Marijuana) that causes the euphoria and other medicinal effects. He also isolated cannabidiol, cannabigerol […]