By Kristine OwramJune 9, 2019 Canada “blew it” on cannabis legalization and is rapidly losing ground to the U.S. as a result, according to the founder of one of the top investment banks to the industry. A lack of policy innovation, a messy patchwork of provincial regulations and severe restrictions on Continue Reading
Bartley Kives · CBC News · Posted: Jun 07, 2019 Cannabis retailer Tweed has cut 12 per cent of its Manitoba workforce in a round of layoffs the Ontario-based brand describes as a result of learning how to operate legal weed storefronts. Tweed reduced the total staff at its three Manitoba stores from 73 to Continue Reading
Time – Douglas – May 30, 2019 In the spring of 2014, RCMP officers in Kelowna, B.C. prepared a press release about a big drug bust at the local airport. It described how investigators had intercepted two shipments of marijuana of “unfathomable quantity” that were bound for a couple of Continue Reading
By Nate – 2019 A 69-year-old North Carolina woman was recently arrested at Disney World when CBD oil was found in her purse at a security check point. Hester Jordan Burkhalter began using CBD oil for her arthritis after her doctor recommended it. She even had a note from the Continue Reading
Laura Kane, The Canadian Press Published Monday, May 6, 2019] VANCOUVER — Retailers across Canada are struggling with a shortage of all cannabis, but there’s one product they’re especially desperate to keep on shelves: cannabidiol or CBD, a non-intoxicating extract vaunted for its purported health benefits. The extract, most commonly sold Continue Reading
CBC News · Posted: May 02, 2019 About 5.3 million people reported pot use in the last 3 months More Canadians say they’ve used cannabis recreationally since it was legalized last fall, particularly those aged 45 to 64 and males, according to Statistics Canada. About 18 per cent of Canadians 15 and older, Continue Reading
Researchers hope that if results show promise, CBD could someday potentially reduce or negate the use of drugs such as antipsychotics and antidepressants EMMA SPEARS – April 29, 2019 Led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, Australia, the study includes 10 participants between the ages of eight and 16 Continue Reading
By Alexander Quon – Global News – May 1, 2019 New Brunswick premier Blaine Higgs says that he’s not happy that Cannabis NB has found a way to lose money selling weed. “We need to look around and get under the hood of the stores,” said Higgs in an interview on Continue Reading
Our intelligence tells us we have 20 illegal cannabis stories open,’ city official says CBC News · April 8, 2019 A steady line of people streamed into Hunny Pot Cannabis Co. on Monday, one week after legal pot stores began opening up in Toronto. (CBC) A week after legal pot stores began Continue Reading
JESSICA MCKEIL December 19, 2018 Welcome to the future of cannabis, in a pure, potent and crystallized format. Over the last decade or so, cannabis producers have pushed concentrates far beyond potencies we ever thought possible. From sticky shatters to beautiful butters to the jaw drawing Dragon Ball Z creation. The sky’s Continue Reading
