Toronto City Council voted 33-7 to endorse the Vienna Declaration on Thursday, raising a loud voice against the war on drugs.

“The war against drugs has failed,” said city councillor Kyle Rae, who brought the declaration to council after attending the AIDS 2010 international conference this July, where it was announced. “In every jurisdiction and in [...]

Matt Mernagh, known for his activism and being raided for his personal medical grow offers some solutions to Toronto’s ever growing medical pot struggle. Here is a couple quotes from his article in NOW magazine in Toronto.
“Three weeks ago, there was yet another police raid on Cannabis as Legal Medicine (CALM). Why should the thousands [...]

CBC reports “An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a company in Alberta.
The car’s body will be made of an impact-resistant composite material produced from mats of hemp, a plant from the cannabis family. The material is being supplied by Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, a provincial Crown corporation that provides technical services and [...]

The longest and most expensive war in the world has been waged for almost a century, hiding under the veil of a clean, drug free America. A war based on one of the biggest lies ever, that cannabis was dangerous and inherently evil. Racism against Blacks, Hispanics and to some extent Europeans brought us into [...]

CBC News reports Vancouver’s most famous marijuana activist, Marc Emery, is finally on his way to the United States to serve a five-year prison term for selling marijuana seeds by mail to U.S. customers.
Emery was arrested in 2005 for allegedly selling marijuana seeds over the internet from Vancouver to residents of the U.S., following an [...]

Jack Herer, the father of the marijuana legalization movement for whom a strain of cannabis is named, died Thursday in Eugene, Ore. after suffering a long illness related to a 2009 heart attack. He was 70 years old.

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For a book review of Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” click here.

CANNABIS CULTURE - A Toronto location of Cannabis As Living Medicine (C.A.L.M.) Compassion Club was raided by police at about 3pm, Wednesday, March 31, according to trusted sources in the area.
“We know so far that over the last hour police are all over the Queens St. location,” Chris Goodwin, manager of Toronto’s Vapor Central, told [...]

(ChattahBox) – A Dutch coffeehouse has been fined 10 million euros ($13m USD) after repeatedly breaking local law about the amount of Cannabis that can be kept by an establishment at any given time.
The maximum amount of marijuana allowed by law is 18 ounces, but the popular cafe The Checkpoint was found on several occasions [...]

New studies from UC San Diego have found that marijuana does have a place in the world of medicine. A report based on findings from five separate clinical trials testing marijuana’s medicinal uses was submitted to the Legislature on Wednesday.
The report said there was “reasonable evidence that cannabis is a promising treatment” for some [...]