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By Owen Smith With medical cannabis dispensaries opening up in cities across Canada, there is no general consensus on how they should operate. While illegal under federal law, they have been repeatedly vindicated by the courts for filling essential gaps in the federal medical marihuana access regime. Some municipalities are now crafting bylaws to regulate […]
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Ending my fantastic career as a cannabis activist by interviewing the mayor of Victoria, Lisa Helps, has been a perfect encore performance. After 22 years of struggling, this very friendly conversation about the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, the city licensing dispensaries, smoking lounges and April 20 clearly shows how far our movement has progressed in […]
The Extract Trial: Ted Smith
By Owen Smith In this series of Blogs I am telling the story of the constitutional challenge to grant medical patients access to cannabis derivatives and extracts. I wouldn’t be in this position at all if it wasn’t for Canadian activist Ted Smith. Ted was my boss at the time I was arrested making a […]