Hilary Bricken

My firm has recently written blog posts about our Southern neighbor, Mexico, and its trials and tribulations with marijuana legalization (see Marijuana Legalization: Bad for the Cartels and Mexican Marijuana Laws: Change is Here/Coming). And with all that has been going on with Canada and cannabis lately, I’m going to start giving our Northern neighbor equal time.

Have you heard of a drug called shatter? It's a highly potent marijuana product that looks like toffee. The Vancouver Police Gang Unit recently put out a warning about its dangers, but as Kristen Robinson reports, marijuana advocates are now firing back.

The Vancouver Police Department’s Gang Unit has  apologized for a series of inaccurate tweets on Sunday warning about overdoses in connection with the drug “shatter.”

"Weed is way more than just weed," says Tristan Williams, the subject of a new short doc on the 'undeniable benefits' of medicinal marijuana by Abandoned Spirt House Films, founded in Halifax a few years ago by King's College grads Roland Eksteins and Nicolas Bergeron. 

Both Eksteins and Bergeron are currently videographers in residence at The Banff Centre in Alberta, but often collaborate on independent work, including A Different Light. 

It was a single Tweet, one some say has shattered police credibility when it comes to marijuana.

.@VPDGangUnit Shatter is a marijuana extract. Show me a case where someone has actually OD'd from this? You can't. pic.twitter.com/rlGtKrGIml

— drex (@drex) November 21, 2015

While well-intentioned, our tweets about #Shatter weren’t accurate & have been deleted. Our apologies. We will do better in future.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / November 23, 2015 / Matica Enterprises Inc. (CSE: MMJ) (Frankfurt: 39NF) (OTC PINK: MQPXF) ("Matica" or the "Company") announces that the Company has filed a Notice of Civil Claim in the Vancouver Registry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia naming THC Dispensaries Canada Inc. ("THCD"), Francis MacMaster, CEO of THCD and other related parties as Defendants in an effort to recoup funds and other damages suffered by Matica as a result of numerous breaches by the Defendants of the October 7th, 2014 Investment Agreement ("the Agreement").

Marijuana:  Anticipating Changes in Legislation

A recent press release from the "Women Grow:  Kootenay Chapter"  says,

"Are you interested in cultivating a career in the cannabis industry? Would you like to know more about cannabis and the future of the industry in general?

WASHINGTON — The smell near the Columbia Heights Metro station Wednesday night was unmistakable. A lit joint in hand, Tony Lee stood outside a residence talking with friends as the evening bustle passed them by, no one paying the group of men any special attention.

“The community I’m in, everyone engages in smoking,” said Lee, 34, a District of Columbia resident who runs his own small construction firm. Plus, he said, if he’s not smoking, he detects the odor of other people getting high throughout the city on a daily basis anyway.

“I’ve grown accustomed to it,” he said.

"I have to admit that I was really skeptical at first about using medical marijuana. I worried I would become just another pot head and be unable to work," says Montreal comic Mike Paterson, right, of filmmaker Ezra Soiferman's idea to put him on a cannabis-laced diet in the documentary Grass Fed. Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette

Montreal filmmaker Ezra Soiferman could have considered calling his latest documentary Mission Impossible. The task at hand was daunting: Soiferman sought to chronicle wild-man Montrealer Mike Paterson’s efforts to get in shape before his wedding.

The movement for a world united by Cannabis began, in 1969,when Walter Tucker (1932-2012) founded the Church of the Universe in Ontario, Canada. Within 46 years the movement had grown to an estimated 90 million members, far surpassing many other organized religions across the globe.

The Church of the Universe holds the Tree of Life, Marijuana as sacred from the Garden of Eden, a gift from God. The church mandate: “…to worship God and live with the the Tree of Life, Marijuana, in harmony with the Universe. We, God’s people, believe that it is our responsibility to defend our right to our sacrament, the Tree of Life, and encourage the worship and adherence to the Law of God to earn the right to the Tree of Life and The Water of Life…”