Browsing: Hemp Store Harassment

I would like to share with your readers myfeelings about the Drug Paraphenalia Law (section 462.2 of the criminal code.

HEMP BC is the libertarian capitalist project of Marc Emery. That's me. I was profiled in the July, 1992 High Times, I publish this magazine, and I pilot the HEMP BC store in downtown Vancouver.

On March 10th Constable Jewett walked into Back to the Garden, a hemp store in Prince George. Constable Jewett took a look around, and then spoke to the owner, Darren Rinaldi, about the legality of selling High Times magazine and books detailing how to grow cannabis.

In late 1993 farmer Joe Strobel and engineer Geof Kime, formed Hempline, Inc., and applied to the Canadian federal government for a license to grow industrial grade cannabis sativa. Until this point no Canadian farmer had grown hemp for fibre -legally or illegally- for several decades. This is Joe Strobel's description of how the application process went and the result of the planting. The following is an only slightly-edited speech by Tillsonburg farmer Joe Strobel to the Canadian Hemp Association Toronto seminar in early September 1994. -Ed
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