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seabc
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Loc: Islander BC Canada
Second compassion club has opened in Vancouver.
#1342344 - Sat Jan 06 2007 12:49 AM Edit Reply Quote
Finally, a second compassion club has opened in Vancouver.
While there are several compassion clubs in Toronto and two in Victoria, there has only been one club in Vancouver since the formation of the BC Compassion Club Society in 1997. While this is partly because there is generally more access to cannabis in Vancouver, it is in stark contrast to cities such as San Francisco, which has more than 40 clubs currently operating. Interested in finding out about this new club, Gayle and I paid a visit on Dec 18, 2006. We arrived to find the front room buzzing with members. At the side of the front room was a menu board that posted the varieties of cannabis for sale, along with the percentage of CBN, CBD and THC in each strain.
. The testing is done by Dr. Paul Hornby. First we met the group in the front, which included Paul Hunt, the president of the organization. We were given a brief tour of the new facilities. There are several offices on the ground floor and a nice staff lunch room in the back. All of the work at the society, so far, has been done by volunteers, including building all of the offices and working behind the scales. Having only moved in a couple of months ago, the space upstairs is almost complete. The basement, however, is still very much under construction and it will be exciting to visit when it is finished. Dr. Hornby is building a new laboratory to test cannabis strains and products for cannabinoids and other chemicals. A lounge is being set up with computers for members to work on. A room for alternative healing therapies will be beside a smoking room that is almost as large as the main room at the CBC of C. People with mobility problems will be able to enter from the back alley. It will take a couple of months to complete everything, but it will be the best facility for medical users in Canada when it is finished. After the tour we sat down with the group, which included Dr. Hornby by this time, and explained more about the history of the CBC of C. We brought samples of almost all of the edible and skin products of the CBC of C and taught them how to make all of our products so they can make them available to their members. We talked about the lessons we learned from our court cases and other topics regarding the operations of a compassion club. We explained why the CBC of C thought it was so important that people with permanent, physical disabilities and diseases have access to clubs without doctor’s recommendations. They have been trying to work closely with city officials and are hoping to get an Exemption #56 from Health Canada to conduct research. After looking closely at the research project that we started comparing cannabis products to prescription drugs, Dr. Hornby and the Green Cross Society of BC want to gather a team of doctors and researchers and submit a similar study proposal to Health Canada. While members of the society do need doctor’s recommendations to join in order to get the research exemption from the government, they now have a member who is a certified naturopath working on site who can sign the forms with little waiting period. We are glad that others are recognizing the value in a cost/benefit analysis of medicinal cannabis use. This new group may quickly become the best compassion club in the country, primarily because they are all medical users who have the best interests of the membership in mind. Most of the people involved in this group are former members of the BCCCS and believe that better services could be provided in a group that is directed by the members, not the staff. Given our experience at the CBC of C with the BCCCS and the lack of cooperation we have received, it is not surprising that another group has formed with the intention of being more friendly and community-based. We have still not received a letter back from the one we wrote last summer –see issue #10- to the BCCCS and have given up hope that they will ever acknowledge our existence. But that is another story. The full story of why and how the Green Cross Society of BC has formed will be written in a later issue of Cannabis Digest. Dr Hornby will be here to teach the class on Cannabis Chemistry on Feb 7 at the University of Victoria, and more connections are sure to follow. For now we are trying to tell as many people as possible about the Green Cross in Vancouver and help them develop products, rules, strategies, programs and public initiatives that will enhance the entire medical cannabis community.
This is good news.
I am glad we are posting on this forum.
Will Iran move into Iraq when the USXA leves?
Is that why the usa sent an aircraft carrier t
Brits,americans,canadians are dying over there. Dumb huh?
I am a bed ridden MSer have smopked cannibis for seven years every four hours.
Have two afiganasdan homemakers (Muslims) 2 chinse homemmakers one peruvian.
I tell them I am the former prime minister of canada....so watch your step.
You guys remember when the ethnic cleasing in bosnia was happeing?The serbian tigers...more dumb moves by us the top of the food chain.
Cherry blossoms in january in virginya....whats up with that?.....global warming?
Below is a picture of me sans cannibis.
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The Political Forum >> Medical Marijuana Previous Index Next Flat Threaded
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seabc
old hand
Reged: Jun 10 2002
Posts: 1120
Loc: Islander BC Canada
Second compassion club has opened in Vancouver.
#1342344 - Sat Jan 06 2007 12:49 AM Edit Reply Quote
Finally, a second compassion club has opened in Vancouver.
While there are several compassion clubs in Toronto and two in Victoria, there has only been one club in Vancouver since the formation of the BC Compassion Club Society in 1997. While this is partly because there is generally more access to cannabis in Vancouver, it is in stark contrast to cities such as San Francisco, which has more than 40 clubs currently operating. Interested in finding out about this new club, Gayle and I paid a visit on Dec 18, 2006. We arrived to find the front room buzzing with members. At the side of the front room was a menu board that posted the varieties of cannabis for sale, along with the percentage of CBN, CBD and THC in each strain.
. The testing is done by Dr. Paul Hornby. First we met the group in the front, which included Paul Hunt, the president of the organization. We were given a brief tour of the new facilities. There are several offices on the ground floor and a nice staff lunch room in the back. All of the work at the society, so far, has been done by volunteers, including building all of the offices and working behind the scales. Having only moved in a couple of months ago, the space upstairs is almost complete. The basement, however, is still very much under construction and it will be exciting to visit when it is finished. Dr. Hornby is building a new laboratory to test cannabis strains and products for cannabinoids and other chemicals. A lounge is being set up with computers for members to work on. A room for alternative healing therapies will be beside a smoking room that is almost as large as the main room at the CBC of C. People with mobility problems will be able to enter from the back alley. It will take a couple of months to complete everything, but it will be the best facility for medical users in Canada when it is finished. After the tour we sat down with the group, which included Dr. Hornby by this time, and explained more about the history of the CBC of C. We brought samples of almost all of the edible and skin products of the CBC of C and taught them how to make all of our products so they can make them available to their members. We talked about the lessons we learned from our court cases and other topics regarding the operations of a compassion club. We explained why the CBC of C thought it was so important that people with permanent, physical disabilities and diseases have access to clubs without doctor’s recommendations. They have been trying to work closely with city officials and are hoping to get an Exemption #56 from Health Canada to conduct research. After looking closely at the research project that we started comparing cannabis products to prescription drugs, Dr. Hornby and the Green Cross Society of BC want to gather a team of doctors and researchers and submit a similar study proposal to Health Canada. While members of the society do need doctor’s recommendations to join in order to get the research exemption from the government, they now have a member who is a certified naturopath working on site who can sign the forms with little waiting period. We are glad that others are recognizing the value in a cost/benefit analysis of medicinal cannabis use. This new group may quickly become the best compassion club in the country, primarily because they are all medical users who have the best interests of the membership in mind. Most of the people involved in this group are former members of the BCCCS and believe that better services could be provided in a group that is directed by the members, not the staff. Given our experience at the CBC of C with the BCCCS and the lack of cooperation we have received, it is not surprising that another group has formed with the intention of being more friendly and community-based. We have still not received a letter back from the one we wrote last summer –see issue #10- to the BCCCS and have given up hope that they will ever acknowledge our existence. But that is another story. The full story of why and how the Green Cross Society of BC has formed will be written in a later issue of Cannabis Digest. Dr Hornby will be here to teach the class on Cannabis Chemistry on Feb 7 at the University of Victoria, and more connections are sure to follow. For now we are trying to tell as many people as possible about the Green Cross in Vancouver and help them develop products, rules, strategies, programs and public initiatives that will enhance the entire medical cannabis community.
This is good news.
I am glad we are posting on this forum.
Will Iran move into Iraq when the USXA leves?
Is that why the usa sent an aircraft carrier t
Brits,americans,canadians are dying over there. Dumb huh?
I am a bed ridden MSer have smopked cannibis for seven years every four hours.
Have two afiganasdan homemakers (Muslims) 2 chinse homemmakers one peruvian.
I tell them I am the former prime minister of canada....so watch your step.
You guys remember when the ethnic cleasing in bosnia was happeing?The serbian tigers...more dumb moves by us the top of the food chain.
Cherry blossoms in january in virginya....whats up with that?.....global warming?
Below is a picture of me sans cannibis.