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Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Sun Three of the seven pot shops that were closed by police in raids earlier this month have reopened. The WeeMedical Dispensary on St. Laurent Avenue was back in business Tuesday, after its sister Green Tree stores on Preston Street and Montreal Road opened on the weekend. The stores are low on stock, carrying only ...

Article by Metro News Toronto A customer of a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Toronto says he feels his privacy has been violated after forms containing users’ contact and medical information was sent to Torstar News Service by an anonymous source. “It’s hard to say if I will (go back),” said the customer, who asked that his name not be ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr.,Ganjapreneur Seattle’s City Council has approved a $500 increase in dispensary fees, raising them from $1,000 to $1,500 for the city’s existing 48 shops, according to a KIRO report. The hike is a compromise from the more than 400 percent increase proposed by local lawmakers two weeks ago. The increase also applies to out-of-town businesses selling ...

Article by Michael Blaustein, New York Post Taco Bell doesn’t have the most locations, that honor belongs to Subway, and it’s not the fastest growing — take a bow, Jersey Mike’s Subs. But one area where Taco Bell has always reigned supreme is with one very specific population: stoners. For whatever reason, marijuana and Taco Bell seem to go together like ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur Medicinal use of cannabis oil is now legal in the Cayman Islands for the treatment of conditions such as epilepsy and cancer and as a pain reliever for rheumatoid and osteoarthritis symptoms, according to a report from the Cayman News Service. The amendment to the island nation’s Misuse of Drugs Law was signed by ...

Article by William Marsden, Washington Post It’s been a wild ride for Canada’s marijuana companies, whose stocks enjoyed an exhilarating high in recent days before mellowing out. Last week, marijuana stocks suddenly skyrocketed, leaving market analysts bewildered. The enormous upswing in stock prices was even more amazing given that the government is giving every indication it plans to go slow ...

Article by Arielle Pardes, Vice Let’s say you’re a person who smokes weed. Maybe you live in California, Massachusetts, Nevada, or Maine—one of the four states that legalized recreational marijuana this month, or the four others where it was already legal. Or maybe you have a prescription to use weed for insomnia, or back pain, or chronic illness, in one ...

Article by Deborah Wilson, CBC News An emergency psychiatrist in Victoria warns that a dramatic increase in severe mental illness cases is connected to use of a powerful, relatively new drug called “shatter”. Dr, Kiri Simms told On the Island host Gregor Craigie she treated 10 patients needing hospitalization in the past year after using shatter or other highly concentrated marijuana-based products ...

Article by Catherine Cullen and Peter Zimonjic, CBC News Faced with skyrocketing costs and ballooning demand, the federal government is dramatically cutting back the amount of medical marijuana it will cover for veterans. Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr plans to scale back the limit for reimbursement from 10 grams of medical marijuana per day to three. He made the announcement ...

Article by Bill Swindell, The Press Democrat One of the biggest impacts of Proposition 64, which legalized marijuana, will likely be felt by the estimated 300,000 to 350,000 workers in the California cannabis industry. Whether they are farmworkers, trimmigrants who each year head to Humboldt County to process the crop, or retail clerks helping to legally sell various forms of ...