CHARBONNEAU – Cannabis is not harmless. We never said it was
WHEN WE FORMED the Calgary chapter of the Alberta Legalization of Cannabis Committee (ALCC) in 1977, we made sure that we didn’t claim it was harmless. It would be foolish [Continue]
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FORSETH – Why is Indigenous cannabis subsidized against the private sector?
I NOTED THREE THINGS in news stories, in recent days, regarding our Indigenous neighbours, and they had me asking questions that I think at least some of us should be [Continue]
EDITORIAL – A cannabis lounge may be coming to your neighbourhood
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AS I STEPPED OUT of my vehicle in a parking lot the other day, the unmistakable stench of marijuana hit me. It originated, apparently, with [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Do we really need cannabis delivered with Skip the Dishes?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. REMEMBER WHEN those first legal cannabis stores arrived in 2018? Kamloops had the very first one, and when it was set to open, people came [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The success of Canada’s legalization of cannabis
THE FACT THAT CIGARETTES were legal but caused cancer, and cannabis was illegal but hadn’t been proven to cause cancer, struck us as grimly ironic in the 1970s. We quipped: [Continue]
PETERS – Even non-cannabis users should be concerned about tax sharing
EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT a recreational cannabis user, you should be concerned about how our governments are handling legal weed. Here’s why. Three years ago, Canada legalized [Continue]
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