“If you decide to grow cannabis at home, be sure to stay up to date on any changes!” Éducaloi cheerfully cautions on its website. The Quebec government has appealed the ruling and its website still says recreational growing is a no-no, but Éducaloi, a Quebec charity working to improve legal literacy, says green thumbs are good to grow-for now. But in 2019, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled that the province’s ban was unconstitutional. Manitoba and Quebec prohibit recreational growing. But some provincial, local and Indigenous governments, as well as landlords and stratas, have their own rules. Under the federal Cannabis Act, you can grow up to four cannabis plants for recreational use per household. We got the dirt on what you need to know to take your pandemic garden to a higher level from women in the know. “If you can grow tomatoes and lettuce, you can grow cannabis,” she says. Terese Bowors, a cannabis coach based in Canada’s cannabis growing capital, Nelson, B.C., echoes Brett. “People who can’t keep houseplants alive can grow cannabis,” she says. While growing cannabis may seem daunting, Brett says it’s simple if you follow a few basic principles. (Health Canada regulates the use of these substances and requires licensed producers to have their products tested.) She notes that commercial growers may use chemical fertilizers, pesticides and mold inhibitors-and consumers have no way of knowing. I feel so at peace when I’m in my garden, watching my plants grow and flourish.”īrett sees many benefits to growing her own cannabis: it tastes better and is less expensive than buying it from dispensaries or medical cannabis suppliers and she knows exactly what she’s getting and what she put into it.
“Growing is so therapeutic,” says Brett, who uses cannabis to manage her anxiety, depression, migraines and chronic pain. Many women decided to plant pandemic gardens with cannabis, and Brett watched her membership shoot up by the hundreds to more than 3,500 today. A month after she launched her group, pandemic lockdowns swept across the country and people started picking up home-based hobbies to stave off stress and boredom, and looking for community online. “We build each other up and support each other, which is what women are supposed to do.”īrett’s timing was impeccable. “I wanted to create a group just for women where they can feel safe and have no drama and learn to grow,” says Brett, who lives and grows in Hamilton, Ont. So, in February 2020, she decided to create her own Facebook group: O’Cannabis: Canadian Ladies Growing Together. After years of trying to participate in male-dominated online cannabis growing communities, April Brett was done with the disrespect that was directed at her just because she was a woman.
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