Prospective medical marijuana producers are concerned a proposed prohibition on legal grow-ops in Abbotsford will halt their plans to run legitimate businesses. By April 2014, new regulations from Health Canada will end private home grow-ops for medical marijuana and allow for larger-scale commercial operations...
Well, British Columbia, it looks like you’ll be hiding your joints for a while yet. In the foreseeable future, otherwise law-abiding citizens will be forced to huddle around basement bongs, away from the prying eyes of the police. Suburban moms and dads will continue lurking...
The Crown is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision that allows patients authorized to use medical marijuana to drink it in tea or bake it in their brownies and cookies. On Friday, Owen Smith, the former head baker for the Cannabis Buyers Club of...
We asked for your opinion on whether a medicated RCMP officer should be able to smoke medical marijuana while in his red serge uniform. Cpl. Ronald Francis, who is currently assigned to administrative duties with New Brunswick's J Division, said smoking marijuana has no...
Lack of legal aid, overcrowded courts and victims rights are all serious issues facing Canada's justice system, but Justice Minister Peter MacKay upstaged those troubles Thursday with a tirade against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. Just as a news conference was ending at a meeting...
At 16 months old, Gwenevere Repetski cannot walk or say “mama†and “dada.†Her father, Alexander Repetski, hopes that cannabidiol (CBD) – an ingredient in medical marijuana – will help Gwenevere recover from infantile spasms, a rare form of epilepsy that has delayed her...
Long-time Fraser Valley marijuana crusader John Conroy is finalizing a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of infringing on the rights of medical pot users and growers. He and a handful of other lawyers working on the lawsuit to be filed in Federal Court within weeks have...
As the debate about the place of cannabis in polite Canadian society has accelerated, along with steps to further legitimize its distribution for medicinal purposes, one specific quirk has seemed to draw an increasing amount of attention: How the government spells a certain nine-letter synonym....
A range of spinoff companies, many of them located in the United States, are angling to cash in on the Canadian medical marijuana market as the federal government brings in new rules for the industry. Producers of homegrown marijuana will be abolished under the...
Teenagers who use marijuana may cause permanent damage to their brains, according to a study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "Children who start [using marijuana] around pre-adolescence, 13 to 15 years of age, tend to develop very severe deficits," says Dr....