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North Island Compassion Club

COURTENAY – Members of a medical marijuana club in the Comox Valley say the RCMP need to show them some compassion. Police executed a search warrant at the club's headquarters in Courtenay, seizing marijuana, cash, a…

Montreal Compassion Club Members in Court CTV: Thirty-five people connected with Montreal's so-called Compassion Clubs were charged, Wednesday, with crimes related to drug trafficking. They were arrested in early June following a series of high profile raids on the clubs, which claim to sell medical marijuana to those suffering from chronic pain. http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100623/mtl_compassion_club2_100623/20100623/?hub=MontrealHome http://www.cannabisculture.com http://www.pot.tv [...]

CANNABIS CULTURE – Toronto police say the aggressive raid against the city’s largest provider of marijuana to medical patients, the C.A.L.M. Compassion Club, was due to “community complaints.” Division 51 of the Toronto Police issued the following statement regarding last week’s raid. Nine people face 27 charges in drug investigation, $210,000 of drugs seized read [...]

The Queen Street East ”compassion club” raided and picked clean by police last week reopened yesterday, but it was selling only politics, not marijuana. Neev Tapiero, owner of Cannabis As Living Medicine (CALM), said its current goal is to spread the word about a protest this Sunday outside police headquarters over the government’s medical marijuana [...]

CANNABIS CULTURE – Almost a week after the raid on Toronto’s C.A.L.M. Compassion Club, the press is finally starting to pay a little attention. Here are some stories from the Canadian media about the aggressive police raid last Wednesday at the Queens St. location of Cannabis As Living Medicine, one of the oldest medical marijuana [...]

As the smoke clears from the aggressive police raid on Toronto’s C.A.L.M. Compassion Club, some important questions remain unanswered. The most pressing question, of course, is why did police decide to raid one of the largest dispensaries in Canada after 14 years of operation with few problems or complains? read more

revver(239476) Hilary Black, one of the founders of the BC Compassion Club, speaks about the medical benefits of cannabis.