[Image-1] The “something to toke about” session is almost over, guys. For this series of four columns, city editor Jacob Boon and I agreed to skip the “should weed be legal” question and jump directly to the reality of its recreational and medical use. In previous columns, I bought pot at a price of $25 […]
Hilary Beaumont
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Weed lube does exactly what you think it does
[Image-1] “The original point was to get pussy-high.” This is the column I don’t want my grandma to read. That’s right, folks—this week we’re talking about weed lube. This winter, when storms were slamming Halifax and we were all hibernating, two people I know decided to get creative. My friend and his girlfriend (let’s call […]
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Incredible edibles: Supreme Court decides if Canadians can get baked
“If you want to make cookies, you’re breaking the law.” Last month a batch of pot cookies made it to the Supreme Court of Canada. Owen Smith was baking the fancier-than-average cookies in his Victoria, BC home for a marijuana compassionate club when the cops busted him. That was in 2009. Six years later, after […]
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How do you buy weed in Halifax?
[Image-1] I said OK, and in one swift, practiced motion he dropped a little tinfoil package into my jacket pocket. To be honest it felt pretty badass. Everyone and their dad has bought weed by the time they’re 27. Everyone except this n00b. I’m living on my own, paying my own bills. I should be […]
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Pot promos get nipped in the bud by Health Canada
[Image-1] Haligonians who buy their pot legally probably noticed changes to their dealers’ websites last month. On January 12, it became more difficult for medical marijuana users to figure out what they’re inhaling, extracting or otherwise consuming. Over the last year or so, Health Canada has cracked the whip on these private companies’ advertisements, telling […]
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Struggle for equal rights at Dalhousie goes back decades
[Image-1] The Dalhousie dentistry scandal has dominated local headlines for more than a month. The public has reacted with fury to sexist and homophobic remarks by fourth-year dentistry students, and references to faculty showing students a video of women in bikinis to wake up male students. All this has been compounded by the university’s messy—and […]
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No jail time for second offender in Rehtaeh Parsons case
[Image-1] A second man who pleaded guilty to distributing an explicit photo of Rehtaeh Parsons was sentenced yesterday to 12 months probation as a Nova Scotia court dusted its hands of the case. That’s 12 months of probation for looking directly into the lens of his friend’s camera and flashing a thumbs-up as he penetrated […]
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Forensic lab closure a blow to justice
[Image-1] Halifax’s RCMP forensic lab is closing in March—a move that will either make our clogged justice system more efficient, or delay it further. Forensic labs in Regina and Winnipeg already closed in March 2014, and the Halifax lab will be the final closure of the nationwide consolidation process. Local crime investigators will now ship […]
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Halifax police conclude bungled stalker case review
The police review of a revenge porn and harassment investigation The Coast first wrote about on October 2 is finally complete. The “Always-on stalker” told the story of a Halifax woman, known as Nicole, who went to police in early 2013 alleging an ex-boyfriend in Florida was spreading explicit photos and video of her online […]
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Case closed, justice hardly served
[Image-1] UPDATE: This story is about Rehtaeh Parsons. Two men have pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in a case that made international headlines and changed the law in Nova Scotia. It’s the case of a teenage girl The Coast can’t identify due to a publication ban, but trust us—you know her name. Her story […]
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Rent Control+Alt+Delete
Kirk McKenna swings open the door to his Fairview apartment. Water trickles in the background. The sound is coming from a windowsill where several electric fountains with spinning, flashing lights circulate. In his 15 years of living here, McKenna has accumulated quite a few possessions—paintings, stacks of paper, boxes and bins, a six-foot-long fish tank […]
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Hang your posters high
[Image-1] A hefty ticket for violating a questionable bylaw has reignited an old Halifax battleground. Recently Justin “Jupiter” Wiles of Berzerker Lion was stapling his band’s poster to a power pole at the corner of Hunter and Cunard Streets when a police officer turned his vehicle around to talk to him. The officer asked him […]