Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017
Source: Vancouver 24hours (CN BC)
Copyright: 2017 Vancouver 24 hrs.
Contact: http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/letters
Website: http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3837
Author: Patrick Johnston
Page: 3
Cited: http://overgrowcanada.com/

POT ACTIVIST CALLS FOR OPEN CULTIVATION OF CANNABIS PLANTS

A cannabis plant in every yard?

That could be the slogan for Dana Larsen's Overgrow Canada pot-seed
campaign.

The marijuana advocate led a project this year to give away 5 million
cannabis seeds this year; last year he and his colleagues gave away
2.5 million.

"We're encouraging people to plant them openly," he said Sunday. "The
goal is to normalize cannabis growing."

It's a continuation of a civil disobedience campaign, following on
from the growth of bong shops and dispensaries in many communities
across Canada.

One of his contacts spotted a pair of cannabis plants growing in the
flower beds around Vancouver city hall. That was a great thing to see,
he said.

"I want to be in a country where growing a plant in your front is a
common thing," he said.

Cannabis plants growing wild aren't any more dangerous than other
plants he pointed out. "I look at my yard, there's morning glory
taking over - it's actually hallucinogenic," he said. "So don't feel
there's any concern about that. There's no harm being near a cannabis
plant."

"Munching on a cannabis bud, nothing's going to happen at all. It's
not actually nice to chew on, it's not like a bright red berry that
grows everywhere and is toxic to kids."
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