Health Health Canada appears ready to make things a lot worse for medical cannabis users. Proposed amendments to the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations will take away both legal options patients have to produce their own medicine. More drug companies will be granted authority to produce and distribute cannabis. Some of the amendments may improve a […]
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Eating Cannabis as Medicine
Eating Cannabis as Medicine By Owen Smith In the last article I explored some of the many cannabis products emerging from the inventive and inspired medical cannabis community. The collective ingenuity of cannabis focused organizations continues to improve this vital health service for terminally ill patients. Clubs like the CBC of C in Victoria represent […]
EDITORIAL: It’s all About Freedom
Andrew Brown Editor There is a power struggle going on in Canada, and most of the world for that matter, about the right to use cannabis. We have a conservative government that wishes to see all use made illegal, we have a majority of the population agreeing that “pot should be legalized,” and a court […]
Updates, Warnings, And Suggestions
By Gayle Quin Spring was wonderful! With the long lasting winter, the blossoms were anxious to show their splendour. And with a seed bank open in town this year, there are many new happy, hopeful gardeners. Let’s hope for a great growing season! Court is moving along as court does—slowly but surely. The preliminary court […]
Cookie Trial to Commence in May
By Ted Smith Beginning on May 19 and 20 with the preliminary inquiry, the bakery trial of the Cannabis Buyers’ Clubs of Canada is bound to set precedent and determine federal policies. We need your help, to use this opportunity, to educate the public about the benefits of eating or topically applying cannabis for various […]
EVENTS – Winter 2011
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA STUDENT SOCIETY HEMPOLOGY 101 CLUB FREE, NON-CREDIT LECTURES SERIES 2010/11 David Strong Building Room C-112 Clearihue C-112 Jan. 12 Hemp History 19 History of Prohibition 26 Economics of Legalization Feb. 2 Growing Cannabis 9 Cannabis and Your Health 16 READING BREAK 23 Med. Cannabis Products March 2 Cannabis and the Law 9 […]
Updates From the Valley
Pitt Meadows—the most ban happy town in the west—has succeeded in passing the first Canadian bylaw banning caregivers from growing marijuana for patients in their homes, or on farms. Original reports of the bylaw indicated the ban would be on growing legal marijuana entirely within its jurisdiction’s agricultural and residential zones, but the final […]
Cannabis Carols
Here are two more Cannabis Christmas Carols for your collection. If you would like the whole set, come out to the Ministry of Health , in Victoria, on December 22nd at 7 pm
EDITORIAL: Where’s the Logic?
Andrew Brown Editor Thanks for picking up the latest Cannabis Digest! As you will notice, we have already expanded to 24 pages, and have some new advertisers. We are very thankful for the support of these businesses, and hope our readers will in turn choose to support them—and make sure to mention that you saw […]
Clubs growing throughout B.C
A wave of new compassion clubs and dispensarys helping many…and bothering very few Nestled between the coastal mountains and the City of Vancouver, on the shores of the Fraser River, stands the town of Maple Ridge. With a population of nearly 69,000, Maple Ridge is like any other town in Canada, with one exceptional […]