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Owen Smith As Canada looks at legalizing Cannabis, we may have a lot to learn from places where cannabis legalization has been long part of the conversation. Just as Craft Cannabis producers in Canada are seeking a part in the new legalization plan, northern California’s family owned heritage cannabis farms are fighting for their place […]
A new study has found a dramatic increase in the numbers of Americans who use cannabis, and also found that attitudes towards cannabis have shifted over time to reflect a wider acceptance of its use. The study — published in the British medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry — analyzed survey data from 596,500 adults gathered every […]
Judith Stamps The BC Independent Cannabis Association: A Preface to Strategies for the Provincial Campaign Historical alternatives are the ghosts that haunt established practices. For the cannabis plant, that alternative has always been the free and varied marketplace; a network of small, medium and large growers and producers; a craft industry; and an array of […]
Owen Smith When I heard that a 15,000 person festival venue had been built just ten minutes from my house I was very excited. Small communities like Lake Cowichan that have long relied on extracting natural resources like old growth lumber seem now to be investing in tourism, using there still beautiful temperate rain forests […]
The provincial government of New Brunswick announced this week that it is looking to the cannabis industry to provide an economic boost to the region, which it sees as being capable of creating thousands of jobs over the course of the next several years. New Brunswick’s economic policy advisor Susan Holt on Wednesday said that the […]
American actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg on Monday expressed interest in expanding her fledgling cannabis business into Canada, though she took care to say that a successful expansion would not be immediate. “It’s going to take a minute,” the actress said in an interview, stressing that many steps lay ahead before her products could be […]
Last month the federal government task force on legalization released 5 surveys and asked Canadians to share their opinion by August 28. That is right, Sunday is the last day to fill out the surveys. So if you are getting ready to party with Sublime this weekend or do some other wild and crazy thing, […]
A new study suggests that men receive greater pain relief and pain sensitivity from smoking cannabis than do women, according to researchers with the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry and the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). In the study, forty-two men and women smoked identical amounts of cannabis in either active […]
Judith Stamps Biologically, a need is something required by a living organism, something that enables it to live a healthy life, and the deficiency of which would bring adversity. Psychologically, it is something that drives organisms to acquire the things needed. In the late 1960s, American Psychologist, Abraham Maslow, identified what he called a hierarchy […]
Owen Smith Victoria, BC has recently been blessed by the rise of it’s first independent Vapor Lounge, the Green Ceiling. Previously, a few cannabis members clubs had rooms to consume in but none match the facilities being developed by Ashley Abraham, Green Ceiling owner and operator. A stage sits front and center with big comfy […]