By Star Editorial BoardTues., July 30, 2019 Let’s be clear: operating an illegal cannabis dispensary cannot be condoned. For establishments like Cannabis and Fine Edibles (CAFE), whose Toronto locations have been repeatedly raided and eventually rather comically shut down by the city through the use of stacked concrete blocks in front Continue Reading
Ben Miljure, Reporter, CTV Vancouver @CTVNewsBenPublished Saturday, July 6, 2019 6:23PM PDT Tucked in amongst the swanky shops on South Granville, a new kid on the block hopes to bring new meaning to the term high-end retail. “Being in the neighbourhood, the community has been super welcoming,” said Muse Canada president Continue Reading
RANDY SHORE June 18, 2019 Legal edible cannabis products coming to retail stores later this year may not be recognizable to consumers who have enjoyed brightly packaged high-potency products from the grey market. Ottawa’s approach to legalization is decidedly not the disco reggae dance party that legalization activists envisioned when Continue Reading
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business June 20, 2019 San Francisco (CNN Business)Fueled in part by CBD product sales and Canada’s recent legalization of marijuana, the world’s cannabis market could notch $15 billion this year.Industry insiders are forecasting that global cannabis sales could total $14.9 billion in 2019, up 36% from 2018, according to a new Continue Reading
By Patrick Cain National Online Journalist, News – Jun 19, 2019 Ottawa and the provinces made $186 million from various taxes on cannabis from last October through the end of March, numbers released Wednesday show. The provinces took the lion’s share of that money, with $132 million in combined sales tax and excise tax revenue; Continue Reading
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
