CANNABIS CULTURE - The severe new drug bill that would have brought mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana crimes to Canada, Bill C-15, has died as a result of the Harper government's decision to prorogue Parliament.
A B.C. resident has received a Health Canada licence to possess 60 grams of marijuana for daily medical use, allowing him to legally grow as many as 292 marijuana plants.
America's used cannabis for many practical, everyday things, and to get high. If they could see us now, sending former cannabis seed retailer Marc Emery to rot in the godforsaken gulag of America, the world's largest jailer, they would be spinning in their graves so fast that we could solve climate change by generating energy from the spinning corpses of America's Founding Fathers.
John Ray Wilson was found guilty of manufacturing and possession and faces 5-10 years, but was found not guilty of a charge that carries a potential 20-year sentence.