By Owen Smith The Cannabis Digest has featured a Crossword section in the back pages for the past dozen issues. Follow This link to play the latest Cannabis Digest Crossword Online: Toking Politicians
Tag: legalization
Interview with British MP Peter Reynolds
By Patrick Dewals What was previously known as the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) was deeply in need of changes that could bring them on more solid ground as a cannabis lobby group. The alliance campaigned for the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use, as biomass, hemp-based products and recreational drug use. Those purposes were worth […]
To the Ladies of Cannabis Activism
By Judith Stamps To the Ladies: A Prologue to Any Useful Account of Women and Cannabis Activism Marc Emery created a few waves this week, prompting responses from women cannabis activists, and from a number of men as well. The context was a Facebook discussion on the April/May 2015 issue of Skunk Magazine, entitled Women […]
Liberal Party of Canada’s Platform For Cannabis
This is the Second part of a five part blog series concerning the upcoming Federal election. By Beth Cormier The Liberal Party of Canada is unequivocal in their support of cannabis. Justin Trudeau has stated that if his party forms a government that they will begin working on changing the law immediately. Over the past […]
Police Attack Hempology 101: Video From 2001
By Ted Smith One of the craziest Hempology 101 meetings we ever held was in June 2001 at City Hall when the Victoria Police Department was determined to start arresting participants and causing chaos. When I made this video blog I had forgotten about the video made that night by Tyler MacDonald and it is […]
Extract Trial: BC Court of Appeal
(image CKNW) Many of the arguments presented to the BC Court of Appeal were recently repeated in Ottawa before the Supreme Court of Canada. You can watch the footage of the SCC hearing online HERE. The Court shortly after ruled in our favor in a Unanimous 7-0 Decision, read about it HERE By Owen Smith After the morning session […]
Cookie Give-Away at the Empress Hotel
The Story of the Great Cookie Give-Away at the Empress Hotel By Ted Smith With over 20 years of activism under my belt, I have many great stories to tell. This month I will be sharing a few of my favourites to mark the 20th anniversary of Hempology 101 in Victoria. Though many of these events […]
Child Welfare in the Cannabis Community
How legal business owners and patients lose their children to the system’s most glaring loophole. By December Kennedy There are very few things that will instill more fear or more potent a panic than that of a parent faced with the thought of losing their children, yet inside an industry with thousands of jobs and […]
20 Years of Hempology 101 in Victoria, BC
By Ted Smith In the evening of Weds Sept 2, 2015, the International Hempology 101 Society will be celebrating 20 years of activism in Victoria with its annual march from city hall to the BC Legislature. Activists from around the region are expected to join hundreds of local supporters, as few cannabis organizations have survived […]
NORML’s Canada Election Project
By Paul Lewin On October 19, 2015 Canadians will vote in the most important election in the history of cannabis in Canada. NORML Canada is usually non-partisan. We are proudly non-partisan. However, this election is different. In this election the Liberals are formally supporting cannabis legalization. This is a bold, unprecedented position for a major […]