Vancouver has made a big step forward in the possible decriminalization of drugs with Vancouver's Mayor decriminalization plan.
Last week, Vancouver Mayor K... Read More...
The Canadian government has taken yet another small but essential step towards decriminalizing people who use drugs.
Earlier this week, the Public Pro... Read More...
We did it for cannabis, but is Canada ready to legalize psilocybin? As known as magic mushrooms, there is a strong push to start the legalization process for... Read More...
When it comes to drinking in public, the Vancouver Park Board is at a crossroads. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the Park Board has been toying w... Read More...
A lawsuit filed in the Court of Queens’ Bench in Alberta is making some pretty heavy allegations and naming a number of big Canadian cannabis companies for f... Read More...
A court ruling out of Ontario is making waves for some pretty controversial reasons related to drug-induced violence cases.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/202... Read More...
Since the imposition of emergency measures in response to COVID-19, some of the biggest questions that we have had as Canadians revolve around privacy and indi... Read More...
Earlier this month, the federal government took an unprecedented step in the fight against COVID-19 and began enforcing the Quarantine Act.
A relatively mys... Read More...
Vancouver’s downtown eastside is facing unique and unprecedented challenges as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Marginalization, misinformation, and... Read More...
Sarah Leamon is a criminal defence lawyer and founder of Sarah Leamon Law Group. Sarah specializes in impaired driving offences and cannabis law. In 2017, Sarah was invited to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to discuss the legal implications of Bill C-46. Sarah has been sought out for her legal insights by both the House of Commons and the Senate on multiple occasions since then.
Sarah regularly writes for The Georgia Straight, The Huffington Post, The Her(b) Life and The Cannabis Life Network. She is also involved in numerous non-profit organizations, including PACE Society where she acts as Board Chair, The Coven Club and The Women’s Association of Criminal Lawyers – British Columbia. Sarah was nominated in Canadian Lawyer Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Lawyers list in 2018 and 2019 and won Business in Vancouver’s 2018 Forty Under 40 award. She won the 2019 Integrity Award from the Universal Womens Network.
