Canada’s Cannabis Journal since 2010
By Ted Smith It has been a busy winter preparing for the Supreme Court of Canada trial and there is much relief that it is over. At least the hard work is over and now we are preparing to celebrate when the decision comes down. Owen Smith has gone from our head baker to a […]
By Ted Smith This year marks 18 years of gathering at City Hall in Victoria B.C. on April 20 to smoke copious amounts of cannabis. With an expected crowd of 2,000, it is one of the largest annual protests held in the provincial capital. Many wonder how it got so big. The beginning of meeting […]
From the tender age of 13, Gayle Quin was destined to be a cannabis activist. It began in 1970. Her mom threw out plants she found in the house. Gayle defiantly picked the plants up and replanted them near her home. There was a very good reason she has fought so hard for this […]
By Ted Smith When Owen Smith was arrested for baking cookies over 5 years ago, there was no doubt in my mind that history was being made. Since that fateful day, when he walked out of the apartment with no handcuffs and his head held high, Owen has been a modern hero. At the press […]
Liam McKnight is one of the many Canadians who benefit greatly from the use of extracted cannabis products. It was my honor to meet Liam and many other medical cannabis patients at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa last weekend. The RvSmith extract trial that I recently brought to the Supreme Court of Canada has […]
(Read Part 1: The Journey Begins) (Owen Smith is writing a series of blogs to tell the whole story of the RvSmith Exract Trial that was recently heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.) Part 2: Arrested and Charged Leading up to my arrest I had plenty of time to think about the consequences of […]
By Ted Smith Friday, March 20, 2015 will be forever etched in history as the day the laws prohibiting cannabis in Canada get proven to be counter-productive before the Supreme Court of Canada. Never before has the highest court in the land been shown such strong evidence that the benefits of this incredible plant far […]
(old picture of the product selection from the now incorporated Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club) By Owen Smith Part 1: The Journey Begins I began learning about the cannabis plant when I started college in 2002—not from any of my classes, but from the small Hempology101 circle that was formed each Wednesday on the lawn in […]
By Dean Schwind For many years now my friends and I have proudly celebrated the cannabis users holy day of April 20th. The 4/20 celebration has grown from humble somewhat mysterious beginnings into an internationally recognized day to honour and praise all the wonderful things about cannabis. There are marches and smoke in’s, raves, festivals, […]
A Retrospective Look at the Future of Canadian Drug Policy (Part 1 of 3) By Ryan Fink The past decade has seen much progress in what is fast becoming a revolution surrounding government drug policy and social attitudes toward drug culture in Canada. The endurance and proliferation across the country of illegal medicinal cannabis providers […]