The Vancouver Sun reports in its Thursday edition that for long-time activists like David Malmo-Levine, the roots of the pot story are here in British Columbia. The Sun's Dan Fumano quotes Mr. Malmo-Levine saying Wednesday in his Cannabis Culture shop on West Hastings Street: "This is ground zero of pot activism in the world. The first cannabis cafe was next door, and the first seed sales and med pot grew out of this block." Marc Emery, Canada's controversial "Prince of Pot," brought Mr. Malmo-Levine from Edmonton to Vancouver in 1995 to aid in the cause of cannabis. They operated out of Emery's Hemp B.C. store, across the street from the current Cannabis Culture headquarters' location, and the legal atmosphere on the "Pot Block" of 300-block West Hastings was different back then, Mr. Malmo-Levine recalled. "From '95 to 2000, it was tense here, because we thought we were going to get raided out of existence," he said. "But the suppliers just kept restocking us, and we kept not being afraid of jail, and eventually, we gave the police so many lectures, they did not want to come down to the Pot Block and be the bad guys anymore, and that gave us a little beachhead" in what he calls the "drug war and drug peace."