The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, an unlicensed medical cannabis dispensary that has been operating in Victoria since the 1990s, has been issued a $3.2 million fine from the province.
CANNABIS CULTURE – The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club (VCBC) has secured a new three-year lease in the space they’ve occupied since 1996. However, Health Canada continues to strong arm the patient focused resource center. VCBC’s landlord has been threatened with imprisonment for renewing the lease.
CANNABIS CULTURE - A benefit fundraiser organized by the International Hempology 101 Society will be held on Wednesday, February 26 at Hush Nightclub in Victoria, B.C. to support a legal challenge fighting to maintain patient cannabis gardens.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Ted Smith will be touring again this February to hold community dialogues on hemp, promote his textbook, Hempology 101: the History and Uses of Cannabis Sativa, drum up support for a protest of Health Canada's proposed Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, and to spread the good word about Dana Larsen's sensational Sensible BC campaign. This time he will be visiting some of BC's coastal communities.
Riding the wave of what some are calling a “cannabis spring,” B.C. marijuana activist Ted Smith brought his “Hempology 101” convention to the Ottawa Public Library’s central branch Sunday.
CANNABIS CULTURE – The International Hempology 101 Society will be celebrating 17 years of activism in Victoria by marching from City Hall to the Legislature on Wednesday, September 5, starting at 7PM PST.