gonna cause a stir lol
he club also received support from Mayor Lisa Helps, who sent the provincial government a letter in support of its work
By Emma Spears
January 23, 2020
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FILE: Baker and customer service employee, Shawn Saunders, sells product to a customer, at the Cannabis Buyers Club, in Victoria B.C., Thursday June 11, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
After a challenging few months, the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club is back up and running.
The club has been operating openly in downtown Victoria to provide affordable, cannabis-based medicine long before federal legalization came into force in 2018, and continued to do so without a licence post-legalization.
FILE: Various uses for cannabis oil is sold to customers at the Cannabis Buyers Club, in Victoria B.C., Thursday June 11, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
“At this point, the provincial government hasn’t responded other than their official rhetoric that we’re not in compliance with the law and that’s why we’re being shut down,” Smith said at the time. “But their responses on paper have been things like, ‘our patients are not aware of the safety of the products because they’re not as tested as Health Canada’s products.’”
The club has also received support from Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, who sent the provincial government a letter in support of its work.
So far, provincial and federal governments have not intervened.
he club also received support from Mayor Lisa Helps, who sent the provincial government a letter in support of its work
By Emma Spears
January 23, 2020
Comments
FILE: Baker and customer service employee, Shawn Saunders, sells product to a customer, at the Cannabis Buyers Club, in Victoria B.C., Thursday June 11, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
After a challenging few months, the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club is back up and running.
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No arrests were made, but the club’s supporters said the crackdown left many patients without a place to acquire their medicine, which is especially difficult when the number of legal stores in the region are not meeting local demand. The store defiantly re-opened shortly thereafter.
The club has been operating openly in downtown Victoria to provide affordable, cannabis-based medicine long before federal legalization came into force in 2018, and continued to do so without a licence post-legalization.
“We want to convince the government that it’s in their best interest to grant us a temporary exemption so that we can continue our work and work with the government towards becoming fully compliant with the law,” club founder Ted Smith told CTV News earlier this month while protesting the raid outside the office of Carole James, provincial finance minister and deputy minister.
FILE: Various uses for cannabis oil is sold to customers at the Cannabis Buyers Club, in Victoria B.C., Thursday June 11, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
“At this point, the provincial government hasn’t responded other than their official rhetoric that we’re not in compliance with the law and that’s why we’re being shut down,” Smith said at the time. “But their responses on paper have been things like, ‘our patients are not aware of the safety of the products because they’re not as tested as Health Canada’s products.’”
The club has also received support from Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, who sent the provincial government a letter in support of its work.
So far, provincial and federal governments have not intervened.
