Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post Greg Baute realized two years ago that he was stuck in the wrong job. He was working in Monsanto’s vegetable seed division in Central Valley, Calif., researching the genetic traits of tomatoes and how they could be used in the global tomato-breeding pipeline. Then California in November 2016 voted to legalize recreational cannabis. “There ...

Article by Stephen Vance, The Meaford Independent With recreational use and possession of cannabis now legal in Canada, municipal staff provided council with an update on the legislation and the road ahead during council’s November 5 meeting. Acting CAO Rob Armstrong provided a report to council for information purposes. “The Cannabis Act, as Bill C-45 is better known, permits an individual ...

Article by BNN Bloomberg Steam Whistle seeking pot partner for retail, brand expansion Steam Whistle Brewing, one of the country’s largest independent craft brewers, is engaged in active discussions with several cannabis producers for a possible investment or joint venture with the company, BNN Bloomberg’s David George-Cosh reported. Andy Burgess, president of the craft brewery, said discussions with the potential pot ...

Article by Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press One of John Lem’s first hints that the technology behind his DNA testing company Spartan Bioscience could be a hit with cannabis users came years ago when an executive asked him if genetics could have caused a bad reaction to pot. The question intrigued Lem so much that he eventually applied Spartan’s technology ...

Article by Amanda Scriver, London Free Press The Retail Council of Canada’s (RCC) cannabis forum last month provided those in attendance some food for thought: more than half of Canadian employers—52 percent as per a new report by the Conference Board of Canada—expressed concern about the implications of cannabis legalization in the workplace. With many seemingly unclear about how cannabis ...

Article by Karena Walter, The St. Catharines Standard A company that opened its first medical marijuana clinic in St. Catharines four years ago says it has seen increased interest in its services since the legalization of cannabis. The fact marijuana is now available in Canada legally without a prescription hasn’t led to a drop in clients wanting to be assessed at ...

Article by Pete Evans, CBC News Canadian cannabis companies got a shot in the arm on Wednesday as U.S. voters in three states decided to legalize the drug, and one of its biggest political opponents stepped down. While much of the attention from Tuesday evening’s midterm election focused on the balance of power in Congress, investors were instead focusing on ballot ...

Article by Gabrielle Fahmy, CBC News Ten of New Brunswick’s 20 cannabis stores were closed Monday as the province grappled with marijuana shortages, not even three weeks after the product was made legal in Canada. Cannabis NB, the Crown corporation in charge of selling cannabis, said it has only received a small fraction of the marijuana it ordered from producers. “We had made an initial ...

Article by Perrin Grauer, StarMetro Vancouver The cannabis shortages currently plaguing many Canadian provinces are driven by regulatory and production missteps, both predictable and inevitable, according to industry insiders. And despite some emerging clarity around how Canada wound up with empty shelves in the first weeks of legalization, shortages are unlikely to become a thing of the past quite yet, ...

Article by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Canada Post publicly admitted to a privacy breach involving thousands of Ontario’s online cannabis customers on Wednesday after the province’s only outlet for legal recreational marijuana notified clients of the problem. The postal service said someone had used its delivery-tracking tool to gain access to personal information of 4,500 customers of the Ontario ...