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VCBC Forms New Processing Company
The pledges to purchase shares in The Club Bakery, the processing company being created by the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, will start being accepted on June 11. As outlined in the Strategic Plan 1.0 released by the club earlier this year, this new business will eventually take over the production of edibles and concentrates […]
Community Safety Unit visits the VCBC
May 29, 2019 at 1:30pm, the VCBC was visited by the BC Community Safety Unit (CSU) and the agents established an initial point of contact with our club. “The Community Safety Unit (CSU), under the Policing and Security Branch of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, is responsible for compliance and enforcement under […]
Counter to the Clear Air Bylaw – The VCBC responds to Island Health
Issue In 2018 the CRD passed amendments to the Clean Air Act to include cannabis smoking or vaping. Recently both Island Health and Worksafe BC paid a surprise inspection to the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, which has maintained a smoking room for patients at 826 Johnson St since 2001. The club has been given an […]
Grow Your Assets: IP for the Cannabis Industry
(this is a sponsored post) Grow Your Assets – Intellectual Property for the Cannabis Industry: Are you Ready? Thurs. Feb. 21 in Richmond BC Approved by the Law Society for CLE credits. Have you ever wondered if you can patent your cannabis infused macaroon recipe? Or perhaps you have designed the world smallest CO2 extractor […]
The Many Uses of Industrial Hemp
(This is a sponsored article from a Guest Author) Hemp is one seriously interesting plant. Demonized in the early 1920s, many western countries banned the cultivation of hemp in an attempt to curb the rise in recreational marijuana use that was starting to take hold in societies across the globe. To many, hemp and marijuana […]
VCBC Celebrates 23 years of operation!
Founded in January 1996, the VCBC is the oldest compassion club in the world, with a growing membership of more than 7,000 patients. From the beginning, one of the fundamental pillars of the club has been the provision of food and skin products, which were historically not available in the black market and were not […]
Jack Knox Interviews Ted Smith about the ‘Cannabond’ Payout
This article was reposted from the Times Colonist, Oct. 4th, 2018. Fifteen years later, Ted Smith’s dreams are about to come true: He’s on the hook for $12,000 worth of pot. Back in 2003, the Victoria marijuana crusader devised a novel way to fund his Cannabis Buyers Club’s legal battles. He offered what he called […]