Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May 16 2013
The illegal growing of “B.C. Bud” is this province’s largest cash crop. Hundreds of high school students show up in downtown Vancouver each year for a 4/20 smoke-in.
Thane Burnett, QMI Agency
Dec 4 2012
Sidewalk spats are nothing new to this city's faded Downtown Eastside, and they appear as often as buses.
Canadian Press
Nov 28 2012
The Quebec Bar Association has launched a legal challenge against parts of the federal Conservatives' law-and-order agenda.
Lee Prokaska, TheSpec.com
Nov 26 2012
It may be old-fashioned paternalism or 21st{+-}century Conservative ideology. Either way, it’s clear our federal government is not on the same page as most Canadians when it comes to our marijuana laws.
Marc Emery, The Globe and Mail
Nov 15 2012
In a Globe and Mail letter to the editor, imprisoned marijuana activist Marc Emery says the Canadian Conservative government's new mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana will hurt Canadians, not help them.
Times Colonist
Nov 14 2012
Voters in Washington and Colorado opted to end the destructive, ineffective and costly approach to marijuana laws last week. Canadian jurisdictions should heed their examples.
Kim Mackrael, The Globe and Mail
Nov 13 2012
Canada’s public prosecutors are bracing for an onslaught of new trials as mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences come into effect – adding pressure to a system they say is already overburdened.
Margaret Evans, Chilliwack Progress
Nov 13 2012
Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be dismissive about the fact that the states of Washington and Colorado voted in favour of legalizing marijuana last week, but they have set the stage for a game changer, however complicated.
Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press
Nov 13 2012
The same day that voters in two U.S. states approved the legalization of marijuana, the Harper government in Ottawa was bringing into force tough new mandatory penalties for pot.
POT TV - Monday Nov 5th
~ The 2012 US Presidential Election
~ FIPA, welcome to Harper's 'Chinada'
~ No masks at protests?
~ Updates from my Toronto trip
~ Black Arm Bands, Camera Finders and Blueberry Jam makes it's debut
All this and bong hits too on...