Canada’s Cannabis Journal since 2010
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 […]
(Cannabis products from the V-CBC) My name is Owen Smith and I am responsible for the constitutional challenge that would allow medical patients access to cannabis derivatives in Canada. Referred to as the Extract Trial, or the Cookie Case, mine will be the first medical cannabis case to ever be seen by the country’s highest […]
The new reality of penicillin, Alexander Fleming’s discovery of 1928, hit world consciousness during World War II, when it was deemed a miracle. Surgical techniques invented during the American Civil War, WW I, and WW II began in the 1950s routinely to be applied to cancers, reconstructions, and transplants. They too were deemed miracles. But […]
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 3 of 3) BY RYAN FINK What I see forming through these trials and tribulations is a kind of symbiosis between the courts and various activist groups, mediated by the now random and circumstantial police interventions that result from nothing more than broken laws. […]
By Owen Smith In the late nineteenth century, cannabis tinctures were widely prescribed for analgesic, sedative, and narcotic purposes and by some accounts it was used as the primary pain reliever until the invention of aspirin[i]. Sativex is a modern version of this approach, a sublingual cannabis tincture spray (nabiximols) produced in England by GW […]
By Ted Smith Since moving to Victoria to be a cannabis activist in 1995, I have endeavored to pressure the city council into supporting the use of cannabis as medicine in all sorts of ways. This constant interaction has yielded many rewards, along with a few disappointments, helping to establish Victoria as one of the […]