3rd Annual UBC Cannabis Convention
By admin | February 23, 2013
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MP MURRAY RANKIN TO PRESENT PETITION TO HOUSE OF COMMONS ON BEHALF OF MEDICAL CANNABIS USERS
By admin | February 22, 2013
Victoria, BC.- The International Hempology 101 Society announces that Victoria’s new NDP MP Murray Rankin will be presenting a petition to the House of Commons this Thursday, February 28th on behalf of the thousands of medical cannabis users in Canada. The petition responds to Health Canada’s new Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) which will take away patients’ personal grow licences.
This comes about after a nationwide protest of the new regulations that took place on February 21st at about 115 MP constituency offices across the country. It was at the Victoria protest that Mr. Rankin approached Ted Smith, the protest’s organizer and founder of the International Hempology 101 Society, to talk over lunch. He offered to help by presenting a petition on our behalf that will address patients’ right to grow.
The petition has been put together by Mr. Rankin’s staff, and is available for download at
Murray Rankin
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A6
We are very excited to see how this goes over at Parliament Hill, and are very grateful for Mr. Rankin’s kind support.
826 Johnson St. Victoria BC, V8W 1N3, (250) 381-4220
www.hempology.ca
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The 14th Annual Cannabis Convention
By admin | February 20, 2013
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Media Release: Canada-Wide Protests to respond to Health Canada’s Marihuana for Medical purposes Regulations
By admin | February 19, 2013
Victoria, BC.- The International Hempology 101 Society is spearheading a nationwide protest against Health Canada’s proposed Marihuana for Medical Proposes Regulations (MMPR), which are a response to the many court cases that have found the current scheme, the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, to be in clear violation of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (CCRF). Our main contention against the proposed changes is that they remove patients’ right to grow their own medicine.
Voices from all across Canada will gather outside their MP’s offices to protest the MMPR on Thursday, February 21st, with 115 ridings confirmed to date. We are also encouraging anyone who can’t make it out to participate in a ‘phone jam’ aimed at the office of our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq, as well as a letter writing campaign. The deadline for public consultation on the matter is on February 28th.
826 Johnson St. Victoria BC, V8W 1N3,
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By admin | February 16, 2013
Medical pot changes come under fire
The Sunshine Coast will be part of a nation-wide protest next Thursday against the federal government’s proposed new medical marijuana regulations.
The regulations, set to take effect in just over a year, would end the current system that allows licensed patients or their designates to grow medical marijuana, replacing it with a prescription-based system that would shift all production to private companies operating under contract to Health Canada.
Spearheaded by the International Hempology 101 Society, the Feb. 21 nation-wide day of protest will target constituency offices of Conservative members of Parliament, including West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country MP John Weston. A rally is planned for 11 a.m. outside Weston’s Sechelt office at 5760 Teredo St. in Trail Bay Mall.
“Bring a sign, come educate others, or come and be educated,” said Eric Bills of Halfmoon Bay, who is supporting the day of protest.
The protest was timed to take place with a week left until Health Canada’s Feb. 28 deadline for public comments on the proposed changes.
Bills, a lawyer from the U.S. who said he saw first hand how the war on drugs was a failure, quoted Health Canada numbers that peg the cost for patients growing their own marijuana at between $1 and $2 per gram.
The cost per gram under the proposed commercial system will rise to $8.80.
“That’s a huge increase for these people who often have AIDS, cancer or some other serious illness that keeps them from working,” Bills said. “So now you’re going to quadruple the price. It’ll just create more illegal activity and bring in more organized crime.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Brandi Woods : Medicinal Cannabis Products
By admin | February 15, 2013
Brandi form the VCBC gives a guest lecture highlighting Vaporizers for the Medicinal Cannabis Products Lecture at the University of Victoria.
Ted Smith hosts a Weekly Lecture Series at Uvic
Wednesdays 3-4 at the Uvic Cinecenta
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Purchase the Hempology 101 Textbook to accompany the lecture series online here www.hempology101store.ca
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‘Marijuana millionaire’ to match donations made to decriminalize pot in B.C.
By admin | February 9, 2013
‘Marijuana millionaire’ to match donations made to decriminalize pot in B.C.
Holding it high, Bob Erb displays a cheque for $25 million. The campaign to decriminalize
marijuana in B.C. is getting a little help from the “marijuana millionaire,” as recent lotto
winner and marijuana activist Erb has promised to match all donations made to the
Sensible BC campaign to decriminalize pot in the province.
The campaign to decriminalize marijuana in B.C. is getting a little help from the “marijuana millionaire.”
Recent lotto winner and marijuana activist Bob Erb has promised to match all donations made to the Sensible BC campaign to decriminalize pot in the province.
Erb, a former B.C. Marijuana Party candidate, won $25 million in the November 2 Lotto Max draw. He’s already donated $120,000 to the Sensible BC campaign and now plans to match donations as the campaign prepares for a fall petition drive to force a referendum on decriminalization.
Sensible BC director Dana Larsen said Erb’s donations will help the group to organize volunteers and resources to collect signatures.
The 90-day effort begins in September and runs until November. Larsen must get 10 per cent of registered voters in each electoral district in B.C. to sign in support, forcing a referendum on the decriminalization of marijuana in B.C. in September 2014.
“This is an issues that’s time has come,” said Larsen. “The polls show that the majority of British Columbians support this, but we’ll have our work cut out for us.”
Larsen said decriminalization means provincially mandating that police will no longer dedicate resources to cannabis possession charges. Sensible BC is also calling on the federal government to legalize marijuana.
Last weekend, Erb brought cannabis activists from across Canada to his hometown Terrace for an informal conference and planning session.
“I wrote cheques for most of the groups who came,” he said in a statement. “But most of my funding is going into changing the law here in British Columbia with the Sensible BC campaign.”
Larsen said he was on a fundraising tour for Sensible BC when he heard about Erb’s lottery win.
“It was amazing timing,” he said. “It’s hard not to think that there may have been some sort of higher power at work.”
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West Coast Hempology Textbook Tour
By admin | February 8, 2013
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Fight The MMPR Game Plan
By admin | February 6, 2013
Ted Smith explains the hempology.ca/protest to people across the country fighting for their right to grow their own cannabis.
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Dan Boughan: Growing Cannabis
By admin | February 6, 2013
Dan’s book Medical Growing: A Garden of Peace can be purchased online at www.agardenofpeace.com
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