Article by Jamie Shaw, Lift News A breakdown of recent municipal activity around dispensaries across Canada. While Vancouver and Victoria are the most well-known for their pro-active cannabis policy as it relates to retail stores and licensing, many other cities across Canada continue to wrangle with the questions of how to manage dispensaries currently and how to manage retail cannabis sales once ...

Article by Ricardo Oliveira, Lift News Many concerns have been raised about adolescent cannabis use. Adolescence constitutes a sensitive period of brain development, which some have hypothesized could be disrupted by the effects of cannabis. In specific, there is a concern that the well-established acute effects of the drug on cognition and emotion could translate into long-term deficits for those who ...

Article by Jacqueline Havelka When medical cannabis laws made their debut in the latter half of the 1990s, they were intended to protect cancer patients from prosecution. These patients found a medication that combatted the harsh, nauseating side effects of chemotherapy, and though cannabis’ efficacy was largely anecdotal at the time, we can now look at the science of cannabinoids to better ...

Article by Cannabis Culture The fact is, no one can say what definite effect months or years of cannabis use has on the brain, as there just isn’t enough research out there to say for sure. Moreover, the human brain (or indeed any type of brain) is incredibly complex, and there are all sorts of stimuli that will affect its ...

Article by Patrick Johnston, Vancouver Sun A cannabis plant in every yard? That could be the slogan for Dana Larsen’s Overgrow Canada pot-seed campaign. The marijuana advocate led a project this year to give away 5 million cannabis seeds this year; last year he and his colleagues gave away 2.5 million. “We’re encouraging people to plant them openly,” he said Sunday. ...

Article by James Longshore Creator of James Bone High Canada! My name is James Longshore, and I’m the creator of James Bong: Cannabis Crusader, the fun comic you’ll ind within the very pages of this magazine! I have been a cannabis crusader since I was 16, and have lived in al l kinds of cannabis jurisdictions, from scoring as a ...

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Article by Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist Lounges that permit people to use cannabis on site will continue to be high-priority enforcement areas under city regulations, says Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps. “I think we do need a place for the safe consumption of cannabis and I hope that the federal government and the provincial government will create that in their regulatory ...

Article by Jason Viau, CBC News A Windsor, Ont., doctor is urging his weed-wary colleagues to embrace marijuana as a bona fide pain treatment option because he is overwhelmed with patients seeking alternatives to addictive opioids. Dr. Christopher Blue is also calling on governments and health-care insurers to ensure medical marijuana is covered under benefit programs because the cost will prevent potential ...

Article by Jay Schmoeker, Twelve High Chicks Lately there’s been murmurs about how progressive activism is cannibalizing itself. Complaints about “callout culture” and building one’s caché by tearing down others. So I’m writing an article on communities and how they change as they grow or their focus shifts. I wanted to look at what cannabis activism and the cannabis community ...