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Pot for pain? This is your law on drugs.

Gabriolan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:41:30 +0000

Maybe this is why your Gabriola neighbours are growing their own. From the Tyee: Pot for Pain? This Is Your Law on Drugs.

Imagine that you have a painful, debilitating medical or psychological condition. You and your doctor agree that a certain medicine is the best available treatment. Now imagine that, rather than taking your doctor’s note into the nearest drug store and waiting a few minutes while the pleasant young person behind the counter fills your prescription, you have to send off forms to Ottawa and wait as long as eight to 10 months before you can get your medicine. In the meantime, if you find a way to access what you need in a less formal way, you live every day with the prospect of armed men in body armor breaking into your home and arresting you. [continue]

Gabriola Roxy girl

Gabriolan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:36:24 +0000

Oh, that Roxy girl — she does promote a lot of Gabriola events. But isn’t having a legalize pot event on Gabriola kind of like preaching to the choir?

Gabriola grow-ops in the news

Gabriolan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:59:59 +0000

Everybody on Gabriola heard about the drug busts a while ago: four grow-ops found by police, and a bunch of people arrested. It finally made the Nanaimo news today, and hence Canada.com. (Mounties target Gabriola’s marijuana trade.) Look, Gabriola, we’re famous again!