CANNABIS CULTURE - The 3rd-Annual Treating Yourself Expo, Canada's largest marijuana trade show and exhibition, is this weekend (May 25 – 27) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Shortly after the bomb ripped through the prominent gangster’s motor home – a dramatic escalation from the hail of bullets British Columbians have come to expect from organized crime – police arranged sit-downs with street-level gangsters and their bosses. Gunfire is one thing, but bombings, authorities made clear at the meetings, would not be tolerated.
Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to public health as well as the concept of judicial proportionality, former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbour says.
I was fortunate enough to be one of the (at least) 20,000 passionate potheads marching through the Toronto streets for the world's largest chapter of the 14th Annual Global Marijuana March. Check out my photos!
CANNABIS CULTURE - Are Canada’s laws against the possession and cultivation of cannabis to go up in smoke? Canadians now begin to wait for the Court of Appeal for Ontario to make that call.
The Crown on Monday urged Ontario’s Court of Appeal to overturn a controversial ruling that struck down the federal legislation governing access to medical marijuana.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Vancouver is home to one of the world's most passionate and vociferous marijuana communities. On Saturday, May 5, activists and pot smokers of all stripes will take to the Van City streets for the 2012 Global Marijuana March. Things may get loud and smoky.