Jun
10
Project Claudia Update — Raid Response

Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for this timely, firsthand account. We hope she, and all of our friends in Toronto, remain safe while continuing to fight for patients’ rights and access. 

Toronto is still in turmoil after the Project Claudia raids on medical marijuana dispensaries. Stakeholders met this past Tuesday, June 7th, to prepare for the raids that are rumoured still to come. Meanwhile Canada waits for legalization of recreational pot to be introduced in the spring of 2017.

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Jun
03
How Project Claudia Happened

Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for this timely, firsthand account. We hope she, and all of our friends in Toronto, remain safe while continuing to fight for patients’ rights and access. 

Trouble in Toronto

Many were shocked when on Thursday, May 26th, Toronto Police Service (TPS) raided more than 40 marijuana dispensaries, using battering rams and entering with guns drawn. 90 people were arrested when Project Claudia happened; police filed 186 trafficking charges (possession for the purpose of) and 71 charges for proceeds of crime (cash seized on premises).

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May
20
Cooking Cannabis with Tracy Curley — Canna-Chocolate Chip Cookies

The ruling in R v Smith made edibles legal for medical users but there are a lot of restrictions on selling them for dispensaries, so why shouldn’t patients (and their caregivers) bake their own? Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor, and baker of many goodies, Tracy Curley for this recipe for Canna-Chocolate Chip Cookies. It uses infused fats created from instructions that can be found in this post. Try ’em yourself, but remember that everyone reacts differently to edibles. Please be careful with dosage, give edibles time to work, and don’t treat your munchies with more pot-filled food!

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May
06
Meditation, Movement, and Marijuana — Going Forward

Twelve High Chicks thanks Guest Contributor Darla Zanolli for this article.

Marijuana and Movement Meditation

Beyond stationary meditation and walking meditation for beginners, more advanced forms of marijuana and movement meditation include yoga and Tai Chi. Both traditional forms focus on precise movements that fluidly transition to the next pose using our breath, muscles, heart, mind, and positive energy. Both have similar goals beyond physical health: to help ease mental issues, relieve stress, and help us become more mindful. And both can be combined successfully with marijuana.

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Apr
01
Meditation, Movement, and Marijuana — Starting Out

Twelve High Chicks thanks Guest Contributor Darla Zanolli for this article.

Marijuana and Walking Meditation

Everyone meditates differently from the next person, and we meditate for different reasons: to relieve our anxiety or depression, be more self aware, or just to feel overall healthier. Essentially it is all inner-activity which we cannot define in rigid terms.

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Nov
06
Cooking Cannabis with Tracy Curley — Infusing Fats

While marijuana can be added to all sorts of foods for medicating without smoking, baked goods require more than just adding pot. Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for providing us, and you, with her recipes for cannabutter and canna-oil. Try ’em yourself, but remember that everyone reacts differently to edibles. Please be careful with dosage, give edibles time to work, and don’t treat your munchies with more pot-filled food!

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Oct
16
NORML Canada’s National Conference — a Call to Vote

Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for this article.

As I walked into downtown Toronto’s Vapor Central, the home for the 2015 NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) Canada National Conference, I was first struck by the diversity of the crowd in attendance: there were as always the usual suspects, but a few new faces were mixed in with those I knew but had never seen on this side of town before.

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Oct
13
Walking the Talk: Jennifer Collett Walks for Dignified Access

Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for this article.

She’s been described by many in the medical cannabis community as an angel, but Jennifer Collett will usually just shrug off such compliments and start telling you about her patients and their need for dignified access. Jennifer is focused, her goal to convince provincial politicians that it is in their purview to provide access to clean, affordable medical cannabis for all patients across Canada.

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Sep
29
Women Grow Toronto Launches

Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for this article.

When Lisa Campbell, Chair of the newly formed Toronto chapter of Women Grow, approached me about being on the steering committee for their Signature Launch event I was more than a little hesitant. After being a founding member of the dysfunctional and now barely visible NORML Women’s Alliance of Canada, I had no interest in women’s groups or gender politics of any kind. But I like and respect the women involved and I wanted to support them.

So what is Women Grow?

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Sep
25
Weed Woman Interrupted or How I Almost Made it to Seattle Hempfest

Twelve High Chicks thanks regular guest contributor Tracy Curley for this article.

The Mission: Meet up with Weed Woman Australia, in Vancouver, to embark on a road trip to Seattle Hempfest — now celebrating its second year of legal recreational use — in Washington State. There we would meet up with Weed Woman America/POW420 activist Adela Falk to finally unite us all.

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Jul
21
The Joy of Cannabis and Coffee

Twelve High Chicks thanks Guest Contributor Green Fairy.

Some drugs — like sugar, alcohol, and caffeine — are legal and their effects widely researched, while those that are in the law’s grey and black areas – like cannabis – are not as understood. So something to consider is how these drugs interact, which came up during a road trip I was on recently.

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Jun
16
Exploring the Spiritual: Bali Spirit Festival

Twelve High Chicks would like to thank guest contributor The Green Fairy.

Bali Spirit Festival: the name alone sent a wave of intrigue through me. I was in Ubud, Bali, early into a trip where I hoped to somehow get on a spiritual path. I considered myself just a spiritual baby; maybe something like Bali Spirit Festival could help, I thought.

Officially, Ubud is known as the arts and culture centre on Bali — a small Hindu island, popular with tourists, found among the 13,000 mostly-Muslim islands that make up the 5200 kilometre long archipelago of Indonesia. Unofficially, Ubud is known for its yoga culture, and as the spiritual journey–destination popularized by Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love.

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