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2nd UBC Cannabis Convention

By admin | March 1, 2012

For Immediate Release

Thurs March 1, 2012

Victoria, B.C.: This Sunday March 4, the UBC Hempology 101 Club will be hosing its 2nd Annual Cannabis Convention featuring some of the top activists and researchers in Vancouver. With students clubs at UBC, Vancouver Island University and the University of Victoria, combined with the Cannabis Digest newspaper, Hempology 101 is a leader in providing education about cannabis to students and the public. The 2nd Annual UBC Cannabis Convention is from 1 to 4 pm in room 207/209 of the SUB Building. It is free and open to the public.

Jodie Emery will be the key-note speaker, giving everyone an update on the status of her husband, Marc, who just passed the half-way point of his sentence in the US for trafficking seeds. Read the rest of this entry »

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UVic Reeferendum Passes

By admin | March 1, 2012

For Immediate Release

Thurs March 1, 2012

Victoria, B.C.: In a referendum held this week, students at the University of Victoria voted in support of the weekly 420 meetings of the UVSS Hempology 101 Club getting an exemption from the new smoking by-law. While the vote was closer than the club had hoped for, 52% is still a victory.

Here is the wording of the Reeferendum: Do you support a directive to the UVSS Board of Directors, to ask the University of Victoria to create an exemption to the smoking ban that would allow the Hempology 101 Club to hold their weekly meeting at the UVic central quad.?

Here are the numbers: Ballots 3335 Spoiled 2 Valid Ballots 3333 For 1731 Opposed 1602 51.94%

http://www.uvss.uvic.ca/upload/docs/Elections/UVSS%20Elections%20Results.pdf

Since the new bylaw came into effect last Sept, the weekly 420 meetings have been help near the Sub Building. At this point, the executive of the Hempology 101 Club plans upon meeting with the new president, Emily Rogers, to discuss possible legal avenues. The smoking policy does have a built in mechanism for an exemption for traditional ceremonies.

The UVSS Hempology 101 Club is the largest student club at the University of Victoria.

http://hempology.ca/cbc/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3601
For more information see Hempology.ca or call 250-381-4220.
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UVSS Reeferendum

By admin | February 21, 2012

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The Healing Side of Cannabis

By admin | February 21, 2012

The Healing Side of Cannabis

By Danielle Pope – Monday Magazine
Published: February 15, 2012 9:00 AM
Updated: February 17, 2012 3:15 PM

Victoria’s Cannabis Buyers Club speaks to life free of pain, stigma around a drug that heals and the trial that could change it all

Gayle Quin was 13 the first time she learned that smoking weed helped her. She suffered from debilitating menstrual cramps and intense bleeding, a condition that would later be diagnosed as dysmenorrhea. But back when Quin was a young girl, such conditions and medicines for those ailments were far from being realized with modern science.

Now, 40 years later, there are moments when Quin, 54, wonders if we’ve advanced at all. She still suffers from judgment when she tells a doctor she uses cannabis to aid her increasing number of conditions. Due to this, Quin says she hasn’t had a doctor in years — finding one that openly accepts cannabis as a treatment form is rare. And those doctors that do are overbooked with patients and waiting lists. Read the rest of this entry »

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Legalize marijuana, former B.C. attorneys-general say

By admin | February 16, 2012

Legalize marijuana, former B.C. attorneys-general say

Four former B.C. attorneys-general — Colin Gabelmann, Ujjal Dosanjh, Graeme Bowbrick and Geoff Plant — are calling for the legalization of cannabis.

“No, I’m not smoking anything,” Dosanjh cracked when contacted.

“It’s just time – 77 per cent of Canadians are telling us it’s time to change the law.”

The former provincial justice ministers, who cross party lines, on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of academics, four Vancouver mayors, the Health Officers Council of B.C., the Liberal Party of Canada and others who say the 89-year-old marijuana prohibition has failed. Read the rest of this entry »

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