Cannabis Digest Issue 39 – Full Issue

Cookie Power: How Baking Cookies Has Changed The Law

By Ted Smith Last week the BC Court of Appeal struck down the federal regulations restricting patients to using dried marijuana in a case regarding Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club ex-baker Owen Smith.  Patients now have the legal right to possess and make cannabis derivatives in Canada, providing access to life-saving medicines while opening up huge […]

The Extract Trial: Government Witnesses

By Owen Smith Two years after I had been arrested and charged in the act of making cookies, lozenges, gel caps, and massage oils with cannabis infused vegetable oils, we would begin the trial that would hear the constitutional challenge that was recently before the Supreme Court of Canada. After Ted Smith testified, Gayle Quin, Gina Herman […]

Is the Cannabis Law “An Ass”?

  By Dr. John Anderson With Respect to Cannabis, Is the Law “An Ass”? The phrase, “the law is an ass” was popularized by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist (1838). “Ass” refers to donkeys which have a reputation for being more obstinate than similar members of the horse family (hence the term, “asinine”) . When law […]