By Ted Smith Beginning on May 19 and 20 with the preliminary inquiry, the bakery trial of the Cannabis Buyers’ Clubs of Canada is bound to set precedent and determine federal policies. We need your help, to use this opportunity, to educate the public about the benefits of eating or topically applying cannabis for various […]
Issue 28 – Spring 2011
Contents Credits Cookie Trial Updates, Warnings, Suggestions California Dreaming Publisher’s Note Editorial Canada Votes North Island Club Raided UK Updated Product Development Team 420 John Anderson Interview Industrial Hemp Farming Mexican Drug War Dana Larsen Interview Justice Matters Just Jakes Gets Hempy Member Profile The Hicks Hemp Clothes Hempology 101 Crossword Club Listings and Supporters
Issue 27 – Winter 2011
Contents Credits Updates, Warnings, Suggestions California Dreaming Publisher’s Note Editorial Letter to the Editor Bill S-10 The American Votes Michelle Rainey Melanoma and Cannabis World’s Oldest Club Turns 15 Hemp Car Making Hemp Paper Hempology Wordsearch Comics Club Listings and Supporters
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Heroes make the world a better place. Becoming a cannabis hero may not as hard as your think. Defending the truth, helping the sick and vulnerable, growing medicine, writing letters, wearing cannabis t-shirts, attending rallies, and networking on-line are individually easy things to do. Doing more than one thing to free the weed makes you a […]
Bill S-10: Mandatory Minimum Misinformation
By Frank Discussion “All of the parties need to give their heads a shake and really critically examine how these laws that are being passed are going to negatively impact the entire country.” – Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Imagine the following scenario: You’re at a car dealership […]
EDITORIAL: Rolling Into 2011
Andrew Brown Editor Happy New Year! This year should prove eventful for the cannabis movement, and we can only hope that the common sense switch gets turned on for our law makers and politicians. Bill S-10 is digging its teeth into the House of Commons after passing Senate in December. This is the single most […]
Taking Stalk of Hemp Paper
By Kristen Mann The International Hempology 101 Society has provided me the opportunity to continue my post secondary education by sponsoring one course a semester for the last two years. This has not only encouraged me to continue working towards my goal of achieving a bachelor’s degree and enhanced my work with the Cannabis Buyers’ […]
Cannabis Infused Automobiles?
The Kestrel paves the way for sustainable personal transportation by using hemp as a a construction material By Diane Walsh THE HEMP CAR is here Industrial hemp campaign takes a giant leap forward Environmentalists speak often, and prophetically, about the need for more industry impetus for cars with low or—even better yet—zero emissions. What’s not […]
WORLD’S OLDEST MED POT CLUB TURNS 15
Looking back at past fifteen years with the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada By Ted Smith Fifteen years ago it occurred to me that society had created a medical emergency. The proposed goals of prohibition were health, peace, and prosperity. After decades of enforcement and lies, the war on drugs has dramatically hurt our ability […]
Melanoma and Cannabis
A sister’s fight with skin cancer, and a cure the government won’t acknowledge By Owen Smith In previous articles I’ve focused on the edible and topical products at the CBC of C—how they’re made, tested & developed in the context of an unlicensed Canadian cannabis dispensary—but in this article I’m going to step back from […]