A high school student walking to and from Stratford Hall, a private school on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, walks past two pot dispensaries in the three blocks between the transit station and school. They could mistake one of the dispensaries, the BC Compassion Club Society (BCCCS), for a hippie health-food store. The other, the BC Pain Society, is pretty hard to miss though, thanks to the sandwich board out front: “Got Pot? Our Vending Machine Does!”
One business has been accused of bringing in a growing number of people who are wafting pot smoke across the playground of a preschool three doors down, while the other has given presentations on the pharmacological properties of medical cannabis to Grade 12 biology classes.
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Jimmy Thomson 
Holy cow…good one. Justin is going to have his hands full if this continues! In Panama City –well, anchored nearby– waiting for our third and last transit. Will stay on the Caribbean side after this; headed up to Belize and your old stomping grounds at Caye Caulker. Will say hi for you. xoxo mum