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Cannabis Dispensaries Facing Regulations
(image: Georgia Straight) Vancouver Cannabis Dispensary Licensing System Creates Many Issues Jamie Shaw When Ted Smith asked me to write this, I don’t think he knew how long it would be. Then he asked...
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CANNABOND Sales Over
Ted Smith Twelve years after releasing CANNABONDS, sales are officially ending today. Anyone wanting to get the promised quarter ounce of cannabis will have to wait until 3 months after the new laws...
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Interview with House of The Great Gardener
By Owen Smith When I was arrested and charged in 2009 for “trafficking THC” by making cannabis products for the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club (V-CBC), I had a choice to make. Either I could choose the...
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LiftCannabis Forum, Vancouver Nov 12th
By Owen Smith LiftCannabis is hosting their third cannabis conference of 2015. Previous events have focused exclusively on medical cannabis in relation to the difficulties patients and providers were...
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The Lift Cannabis Forum: Banishing the Prohibition Monsters…Maybe
Judith Stamps Last Thursday evening, November 12th 2015, it was my privilege to attend a forum on the future of cannabis in Canada, planned and hosted by Lift, a web-based, independent communications...
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Victoria’s Dispensary Rules Could Negatively Affect Patients
Ted Smith While there is a great deal to celebrate, the new regulations being proposed for medical cannabis stores in Victoria, B.C. have a few serious problems. Hopefully the members of the Victoria...
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Ted Smith Interviews Owen Smith and Kirk Tousaw
Owen Smith Ted Smith and I are known largely for our work in British Columbia’s capital, Victoria, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. However we both now live north of Victoria, amongst the...
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Police Raid Plans: Are You Prepared?
Ted Smith Anyone working in the illegal cannabis industry needs to be prepared to get arrested at any moment. A recent rash of police raids on medical cannabis dispensaries across Canada have shown...
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Federal Court Ruling Protects Patient Gardens
Ted Smith A huge wave of relief swept across the country this morning as a federal court judge handed down a ruling protecting patient gardens. In 2014, a new medical cannabis program, the Marijuana...
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What the Judge Said on Patients’ Rights, and What Health Canada Can Do Next
What the Judge Said on Patients’ Rights, and What Health Canada Can Do Next Judith Stamps Canadians who are ill, and who believe they are obtaining relief from cannabis, have a constitutionally...
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Insurers Move to Include Canadian Cannabis Businesses
Courtland Sandover-Sly Hey, you! Yes, you. Did you know that marijuana-related businesses qualify for employee benefits? Or property and casualty insurance? Things sure are changing fast in Canada...
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Battleground BC: Legalization May Trump Craft Cannabis
Ted Smith People that do not even smoke cannabis know that BC has some of the best herb in the world. For decades cannabis farmers have illegally used first hidden valleys, and then basement...
View ArticleTousaw’s Thoughts on Health Canada’s Response To Allard on Aug 24
Ted Smith Later this month the federal government must enact laws allowing patients to grow their own supply of cannabis, as per the Federal Court of Canada decision handed down in the Allard...
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The ACMPR, and the Rift in the Cannabis Industry
Judith Stamps The recently announced decision by Health Canada, to permit home growing of medical cannabis, is widely regarded as a step forward for patients, and a win for cannabis culture. The...
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Dissecting the Canadian Cannabis Task Force...
The Good In a comprehensive final report by the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation, released to the public on Tues Dec 13, 2016, recommendations covering a broad range of areas of...
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Business Lobby Group Embraces Cannabis Industry
With legalization stampeding ahead, many long-term cannabis activists are very concerned about unnecessary regulations and over-taxation. A report issued this month by a task force has informed the...
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Trudeau’s Cannabis Task Force Report – Part 1
(article previously posted at InsidetheJar) Travis Lane Part one in a series on the Task Force Report. It has been a couple of months since the final report from the federal task force on cannabis...
View ArticleCanada’s Cannabis Act: Legalese Translation
Cannabis Digest is happy to bring you weekly episodes of the Cannaisseur with Caelan Walton, but you don’t have to wait, visit the youtube page and subscribe for more videos. On this very special...
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Our Response to the Proposed Approach Survey
(The Questionnaire is only available until January 20th. Have your say right away!) By Ted Smith and Clea Maclean Health Canada is seeking your feedback on the Proposed Approach to the Regulation of...
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Dispensaries and the New Legalization in Canada
Interviews: Alex Robb, Robert Laurie, Kirk Tousaw, and Dana Larsen. Victoria BC currently has 28 dispensaries. Of these, 8 are licensed, and 5 more are in process. Vancouver BC has 15 licensed...
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