I have had a lot of criticism, eye-rolling and even anxiety about legalization. And still do. Yet I’ll admit (from my privileged stance) walking into the Portland Street NSLC and seeing CANNABIS in huge official letters brought tears to my white lady eyes. It happened! It’s legal! The stores have an airport-security neutrality about them […]
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Chelsea Handler shares her passion for pot with Halifax
A Civilized conversation with Chelsea Handler Sunday, October 7, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Ave $63-$98 Willie Nelson—now more of a white-haired stranger—laughs as he passes Chelsea Handler a blunt. “Pot is like sex,” he chuckles. “Some is better than others, but it’s all good.” This is the fourth Episode of Handler’s 2016 Netflix […]
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Cannabis patient worried about finding a place to rent in Halifax
Landlords in Halifax are putting their tenants on notice: growing and smoking cannabis inside will be prohibited even after legalization. The announcements have some medicinal cannabis patients worried they won’t be able to find an affordable place to live in the city. “A lot of us exist on little-to-no income. A lot of us are […]
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America just doubled down on the war on drugs
When California started 2018 by formally legalizing weed, it felt like a blow to Canada’s cool cred. California has more people and a bigger economy than Canada, and it made legalization happen January 1, while prime minister Justin Trudeau is already losing his nerve for what had seemed a firm July 1 deadline. That’s weak, […]
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Waiting to exhale
The last time I tried to buy weed before the Cannabis Act was introduced, I was a teenager. It was late in the 1900s, when the other prime minister Trudeau was winding down his political career. We never had much pot-buying success, my friends and I. But that was fine with me. Attempting to score […]
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We didn’t start the (garbage) fire
Lorne Grabher, Jacques Dubé, Jamie Baillie walks away Street check data, Jimmy Melvin, rockets in Canso Robert Bjerke, Lady Drive Her, Sea Bridge floating on the water Cheryl Blossom, Donkin mine, Whitman says “negro” Saltwire buys out Transcon, women march on Washington Moonlight beats out La La Land, Matthew, Bill and Jad are canned David […]
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Where’s the weed at? Over at the NSLC
Starting next year anyone 19 or over will be able to use, purchase and possess cannabis products in Nova Scotia, which will be legally sold online and through existing NSLC stores. The much-anticipated details were released Thursday by the province. According to the government, the number of liquor stores that will stock pot is yet […]
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Crown drops charges against cannabis club owner
Crown prosecutors have dropped all charges against Christopher Enns that resulted from several police raids on his Farm Assists cannabis centre. Enns announced the news at a press conference Friday afternoon, at what was supposed to be day one of a constitutional challenge against the legal charges. “We were looking forward to having the courts […]
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Getting deep into the post-prohibition weeds
If prime minister Justin Trudeau gets his way, Canada will soon be joining the exceptionally small club of countries that have legalized marijuana. His proposed law is currently in the parliamentary process, and he’s aiming for it to go into effect by July 1, 2018. Which sounds cool and all, but are we actually ready […]
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The ruthless capitalism at work in cannabis dispensaries
At a show last summer, a musician friend said to me, “This is Pineapple Express—I bought it legally in Kensington Market.” Legal. Weed. Kensington. Toronto. That stuck in the memory banks, and I followed up next time I was in Toronto, visiting several locations of one well-reputed dispensary, sampling as many marijuana strains and concentrates […]
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Watch this short doc on the benefits of medical marijuana
“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 […]