Canada’s Cannabis Journal since 2010
By Gayle Quin I hope this issue finds you well and cozy. It was most certainly a crazy start to winter. Thanks for all the greats costumes on All Hallow’d Eve this year. Folks really got into the spirit of their alter selves. Everyone seemed to have a great time. The hot box was a […]
Andrew Brown Editor As we approach Apr. 1, much anxiety looms over medical cannabis patients. April fool’s day marks the day the federal government has decided would be the best day to pull the plug on the current medical marijuana access program (MMAR)—a program riddled with access problems and bureaucratic mazes (among other things)—to a […]
Ted Smith One of the dilemmas in the cannabis movement in Canada has been the tension that is occasionally felt between medical and recreational cannabis users. We must learn to work together more often if we want to see change happen. That does not mean we should all have the same agenda, but we […]
Liberals consider policy reform a priority By Debbie Stultz-Giffin With the emergence of new political figures nationally and provincially, activists championing a cause chomp at the proverbial bit to ferret out the philosophy and position that he or she may bring to the table in relation to their “issue.” Having been entrenched in cannabis activism […]
Campaign falls short, but will try again By Judith Stamps In Sept. 2013, cannabis activists in B.C. petitioned to create a future for themselves other than the one imagined for them by their federal government. While the attempt failed numerically, it succeeded in broadening the network of like-minded marijuana activists in B.C. If their […]
Setting the present history of Cannabis Sativa in Jamaica aright: A Rastafari Perspective By Robert Gordon (Ras Kahleb) It is scholarly opinion that it was the indentured laborers from eastern Asia, the East Indians in particular, who arrived on the island of Jamaica with seeds of Cannabis Sativa, and who had introduced the Cannabis culture […]
Get involved and grow Hempology 101 By Steven Faryna I’m going to be writing about the why’s and how’s of starting a cannabis oriented university or college club. Apart from giving you the basic information on what you will need to do, I also hope to convince you of the great experiences that a school […]
Navigating Cannabis Science and Culture under Prohibition By Owen Smith Surfing The High Seas In the last article I encouraged the medical cannabis community to engage the internet to stay astride with the rapidly emerging innovations in cannabis science worldwide. I urged patients and interested parties to look at the many examples just south of […]
Russell Barth & Christine Lowe fighting for the right to medicate By Al Graham pace-online.ca When I first got involved with the cannabis community, I often saw the same name attached to published letters appearing in newspapers. They were always educational and spoke with truth, unlike what some politicians were saying about cannabis. I then […]