The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle drug abuse, a B.C.-based national coalition of drug policy experts argue. In a report to be released Thursday, the coalition denounces the...
Medicinal marijuana users say the closure of a Halifax dispensing club continues to be a big problem as prescription holders put their safety at risk seeking alternative, illegal sources for their pot. In March, police raided the Halifax Compassionate Club in Porter’s Lake, N.S.,...
Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender, three Councillors, the city administrator and the top local cop have been subpoenaed to testify at the criminal trial of a medical marijuana retailer. Lawyer Kirk Tousaw wants to grill the civic and police leaders about why they raided a...
A South-Surrey based movement to put pressure on the federal government to bring affordable and accessible medical marijuana to patients has added a local MLA to its movement. Gordon Hogg, MLA for Surrey-White Rock has come out with a joint statement with the B.C....
Concentrated cannabis extracts, also known as Cannabis oils because of their sticky and viscous appearance, are increasingly mentioned by self-medicating patients as a cure for cancer. In general, preparation methods for Cannabis oil are relatively simple and do not require particular instruments. The purpose of...
It’s not the “did you inhale†question many politicians have been asked, but a lobby group will be questioning want-to-be politicians on their position over a regulated marijuana market in British Columbia. Stop the Violence BC — a coalition of police, doctors, lawyers, politicians...
The arrest of 12 people who fraudulently obtained licences to grow medical marijuana has highlighted loopholes in the Marijuana Medical Access Program that the government is attempting to address—to the concern of many authorized users of the program. Police arrested the 12 individuals in...
A metro Vancouver district council is moving to nip a problem in the bud by regulating where medical marijuana can be grown. A newly drafted Maple Ridge, B.C., bylaw proposes that commercial medical marijuana production be permitted only in agricultural zones in an effort...
Fires, floods, terrified neighbours, the whiff of weed driving customers away. These are problems that have come with the huge number of medical marijuana grow-ops that have flourished secretly throughout British Columbia over the past year. At the start of 2012, there were...
As Peter Melanson sees it, he went into business to help others. “It just gives me goosebumps to help somebody feel better,†said Melanson, sitting in an east Hamilton living room that's filled with children's books and toys. “By helping somebody by doing something...