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Power Cut After Smart Meter Installed
By Martin van den Hemel – Richmond Review
A Richmond couple is demanding an apology, compensation and answers from BC Hydro after the electrical utility cut power to their home without any notification based solely on a smart meter installer’…
Editorial: Drug Laws Fuel Gangs’ Growth
By. Victoria Times Colonist
Jonathan Bacon surely knew the risks that came with his chosen profession. He knew his life would end violently; it had been threatened many times. The only question was when he would be gunned down.
Bacon's death …
Little Shop Of Pot
If Kamloops Mounties consider Carl Anderson a problem, it might well be he is a problem of their own making. Who is Carl Anderson, you’re asking? Depends on who you talk to. For some, he is no doubt a saviour, a supplier of high-grade medical m…
City Clamps Down On Medical Marijuana Users, Growers
Permits Required, Agricultural Location Needed People in Surrey who use or grow medical marijuana will soon have to obtain municipal permits and growers will have to relocate to an agricultural area. Surrey council endorsed a plan that would place rest…
Free Hemp Burgers At Victoria Courthouse
Hempology.ca
The first-ever free hemp burger barbeque will be held on the back lawn of the Victoria, B.C. courthouse this afternoon (May 19) at 1pm.
This hemp barbeque will be an opportunity to celebrate a small victory for Owen Smith, baker for …
Nanaimo Advocate Eyes Ontario Marijuana Ruling
A recent Ontario superior court ruling against the federal government’s medical marijuana regulations has a licensed medical marijuana user in Nanaimo wondering where she and other patients across Canada stand legally.
Pam Edgar, host producer of…
Medicinal Pot Education Goal Of New Initiative
Growing marijuana doesn’t quite evoke a noble-farmer image, even when it’s for the sake of treating terminally ill patients.
As medical marijuana becomes less taboo, however, supports for those who cultivate the product need to fall into pl…
Marijuana Controversy Grabs National Attention
A local battle over the bounds of legal marijuana production has grabbed national attention after police raided a grow op near Castlegar and arrested a 62-year-old woman, despite the fact that she had a valid licence to grow a certain number of the pla…
Legal Pot Grow-Ops: Justifiable ‘Hazard’?
Health Canada’s Policy Sparks Controversy
There are houses in Abbotsford where pot is growing with the sanction of the federal government, and neither the Abbotsford Police nor city hall knows where they are.
Even Health Canada, which licenses th…
Health Pot Issue Clouded
Members of Kelowna’s compassion club were gobsmacked by the idea local politicians wanted their input on problems surrounding medical marijuana growers, let alone that talks slated for next Monday could give rise to a committee dedicated to the i…




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