Mr Harper’s Marijuana Pipe Dream
Coincidental with word that a British Columbia seed company has won second place at the annual High Times Cannabis Cup in the Netherlands, comes news of a speech delivered by Prime Minister Stephen...
View ArticleHarsher Sentences for Pot Growers Than for Pedophiles
Media reports that some pot growers will face harsher mandatory-minimum sentences than child rapists under the Conservative government’s new crime bill were enough to catch the attention of Prime...
View ArticleMarijuana Penalties Won’t Help, US Group Tells Harper
A high-profile group of current and former U.S. law enforcement officials has sent a letter to the Harper government with a surprising message: Take it from us, the war on drugs has been a “costly...
View ArticleIs Medical Marijuana Going To Pot?
With Health Canada rolling out more restrictive rules and Stephen Harper fighting pro-weed legal judgements, local MMJ users fear the system is going up in smoke. In an early-’90s Civic we drive...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Users Oppose Home Grow-Op Ruling
Saskatchewan’s exempted medical marijuana users and growers are criticizing a decision by the federal government to stop individuals from growing the plant. “I will be forced to purchase it from the...
View ArticleFeds Announce Mail-Order Medical Pot
Ottawa’s decision to phase out both government and personal medical marijuana production came as no surprise to patient advocates who opposed the new rules. “I’m not surprised a bit,” said Ric Bills,...
View ArticleThe End Of Pot Panic
WRONG-ON-WEED CONSERVATIVES DON’T GET IT: CANADIANS WANT DRUG LAWS BASED ON FACTS On a late July cross-Canada tour, new Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared the time had come...
View ArticleTrudeau Panned By Conservatives For Smoking Pot
‘As a Member of Parliament He Shouldn’t Be Breaking Those Laws’ Conservatives MPs across Canada are expressing their disdain for Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau after his public admission to...
View ArticleMedical marijuana users can grow at home, for now
A Federal Court judge in Vancouver has granted a last-minute reprieve for medical marijuana users who say they need to be able to grow their own pot at home. On Friday morning, the judge granted an...
View ArticleFeds Appeal Medical Marijuana Injunction
The federal government will appeal a March 21 court injunction that lets authorized patients temporarily keep growing their own medical marijuana past April 1, when the old system was to be outlawed....
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