Dear Editor, I write you today as a federally licensed medicinal marihuana card holder. I am only one of a growing number of medical patients who are turning to Marihuana for pain relief. Not only does the public need to be educated on their rights as patients (and the medicine that they are entitled to), […]
Tag: Health Canada
Compassion falls in Quebec
A look at the recent raids that put medical users and compassion clubs accross Canada on edge A chill swept through the Canadian cannabis community as word spread of compassion clubs being raided throughout Quebec, on June 3. When the smoke cleared, there would be five clubs shut down by police in Montreal and […]
Remember Me the Way I Was
The road to medical freedom is still rocky By Joy Davies “Remember me the way I was” is what the note said that the policeman found on Priscilla’s bathroom counter. My God, after 10 years of living with excruciating pain, after 10 years of doctors and specialists, they put her through every pharmaceutical they could […]
Examining the Parker decision…ten years later
By Ted Smith This summer marks 10 years since Health Canada was ordered to provide access to cannabis to people in chronic pain, by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. While the use of cannabis as medicine goes back thousands of years, decades of being missing from Western medicine cabinets meant the public’s knowledge of […]
Home Base
By Dave Nelson In this edition, I would like to let readers know a little bit about myself, and what brought me to the CBC of C. I joined the navy in 1980, and served for about 17 years. While working in the navy I incurred numerous injuries. When I was young, these injuries seem […]
Member Profile: Cj Heavey
I was first introduced to drugs in 1969, when I was 15-years old. What a drug! It got me high, spaced out, and mentally impaired. On some occasions, I was totally wasted. I found I needed higher quantities of the drug as it wasn’t doing its job. This all lead to other readily-available narcotics coursing […]
Raids Against Compassion
By Ted Smith A series of raids against medical cannabis dispensaries in Canada, has changed the direction the movement seemed to be going. While new clubs are still opening, as you can read in Kyla’s article, police have issued warrants against seven medical cannabis dispensaries in Ontario and Quebec, since Mar. 31. Just before that, […]
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
HEMPOLOGY 101 CALENDAR OF EVENTS HEMPOLOGY 101 AT UVIC 2010 2010 SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES WILL BE HELD IN THE CLEARIHUE BUILDING ROOM #C111 January 13 Hemp History January 20 History of Prohibition January 27 Economics of Legalization February 3 Growing Cannabis February 10 Cannabis and your Health February 17 ***READING BREAK*** February 24 Medical Cannabis […]
CBCoC Bakery Raid
BY: TED SMITH Despite their humble appearance, cookies may bring big changes to the cannabis laws in Canada. On the surface, cannabis cookies look no different than any other. Legally, however, cannabis cookies create a complex problem that has huge medical and economic implications. Victoria police are tired of hearing about pot cookies; the public […]