Cannabis
The Origins of April 20th as a Day of Celebrating Cannabis
The biggest celebration day in the cannabis culture is April 20. The April 20 (4/20) celebration originally started in the mid 1970s as the time of day after school, 4:20 pm, for high school students in San Rafael, California to meet to smoke pot. The phrase "I'll see at you at 4:20" became code for, "I'll be there to smoke a joint with you after classes are over".
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Sensible B.C. campaign seeks referendum on marijuana decriminalization in 2014
By Stephen Hui, Georgia Straight
A group of pot-legalization advocates has launched a campaign seeking a referendum on marijuana reforms in B.C.
Sensible B.C. plans to build support for a provincewide initiative vote in 2014, following the signature-gathering process used by the Fight HST campaign in 2010.
Led by Dana Larsen, a founding director of the Vancouver Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary and former B.C NDP leadership candidate, and Kirk Tousaw, the executive director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation and a director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the campaign has drafted proposed legislation it’s calling the Sensible Policing Act. Read more »
Hemp-based body panels among Eve's green plans
By Michael Goetz, Metro NewsThe consortium, Project Eve, was recently formed with the mission to get electric car production in this country to the next level.
It includes firms, universities, infrastructure entities, etc., who all know a thing or two about how to design and build a state-of-the-art electric car. Basically, it’s like all the smart kids in class getting together to collaborate on a science project.
In fact, two of the member firms, Toronto Electric and Motive Industries (Calgary), have already built working prototypes, and they will be the first two products the consortium will build and sell to fleet customers on a per-order basis (a full line-up is in the works).
HealthWatch: Does marijuana really relieve pain?
By EVRA EDDY, TAYLOR LEVY LANG, The GazetteMONTREAL - The use of marijuana for a few carefully selected medical conditions has generated heated discussion, pitting those who favour legalization against those who warn about the undesired consequences of wider availability. Absent from much of the debate so far, however, is scientific evidence to establish whether marijuana really works to relieve chronic pain; and if it does, whether it does so in a manner that is distinct from simply providing the well-known high that has made it a popular recreational but illicit drug. This edition of HealthWatch takes a closer look at the burden of chronic pain and a recent study that has received a great deal of attention.
What is neuropathic pain?
The United Nations on Drugs: Alice in Wonderland Revisited
By Neil Boyd, Vancouver SunThe most recent edition of The Guardian Weekly, a typically “progressive" news outlet, devoted a full page to the wildly speculative musings of Antonio Maria Costa, the outgoing director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Mr. Costa made three key claims, none of which have any compelling empirical support. First, he argued that making illegal drugs more freely available will lead to more “public health damage”.
Hypocrisy weeds out Prince of Pot
By Sandra Thomas, Vancouver CourierCosmetic pesticide use was banned in Vancouver Jan. 1, 2007.
But the sale of pesticides wasn't banned. So as long as you promise the sales-clerk at your local garden shop or big box store that you're intending to use that bottle or box of chemicals anywhere but in the soon-to-be greenest city in the world, you can make your purchase and leave.
That sales-clerk has no way of knowing if you plan to use those pesticides in Vancouver or in a municipality where the toxic chemicals are also banned. It makes me wonder if there would be any repercussions should the purchaser of those chemicals be busted using them illegally and the package was traced back to a Vancouver store.
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