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Article by Thomas Walkom, The Toronto Star What is to be done with the post office? A government task force report released this week doesn’t exactly answer the question. But it does provide some hints as to where Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberal government may go. Door-to-door mail delivery. During last year’s election campaign, the Liberals promised to stop Canada Post ...

Article by Dalson Chen, Windsor Star Canada’s federal government may have promised that marijuana legalization is on the horizon, but you wouldn’t know it from the way banks treat cannabis-related businesses, says downtown Windsor’sHigher Limits. “It’s insulting. It’s disheartening,” said Jon Liedtke, co-owner of the city’s first and largest medical marijuana lounge, located at 251 Ouellette Ave. “It’s really unfortunate ...

Article by Charlotte Helston, InfoTel The municipality told him to shut down, police raided his shop and charged him with drug trafficking, and now an Okanagan dispensary owner is challenging the constitutionality of what transpired. Ryan Pahl, co-owner of the Kaya Clinic in Kelowna, was charged with one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking after Mounties raided the ...

Article by Dave Battagello, Windsor Star Business leaders have estimated sales in Ontario for recreational marijuana will range between $1 billion to $2 billion by 2024 should it be legalized by the federal government. So, the economic stakes are high — both locally and across the nation — should pot be legalized as planned. That is why the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber is ...

Article by Falice Chin, CBC News A longtime business owner in Calgary is looking for opportunities to cash in on Ottawa’s plan to legalize marijuana. Vlassis Douvis — owner of Hemp Roots — says he’s making space in his three retail stores in anticipation of the Liberal government’s new pot legislation. “If it’s allowed for me to sell marijuana I would in all forms,” ...

Article by Clifford Skarstedt, Peterborough Examiner A new marijuana business has opened on George St. in downtown Peterborough. … It’s the local branch of a chain of Cannabis Culture stores, with locations in Toronto and Vancouver. “We have spoken to the owner and will be continuing to monitor the situation,” city police spokeswoman Lauren Gilchrist said Tuesday night. The business ...

Article by The Gleaner Jamaica’s lush and rustic southwestern coast has been earmarked as ideal for the development of health and wellness tourism. In advocating this position, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett said this area is also ideally suited for the concept of cannabis-infused tourism where cannabis products would play a major part in the tourism sector. Health and wellness ...

Article by Metro News A small southern Alberta town could soon be home to a medical marijuana grow operation. The Green Living Agriculture Company approached the community of Milk River months ago about its proposal to build a facility on the north end of town adjacent to the town’s water reservoir. On Monday, about 90 town residents attended a public hearing on Monday ...

Article by Tom Peck, Independent Cannabis should be legalised in the UK for medical use, according to a major inquiry by MPs and peers. A report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Reform has concluded that the current refusal to recognise the medical value of cannabis is “irrational”, and called for an end to the de facto criminalisation of ...

Article by Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News If it’s legal to smoke weed with your friends in two years, you can thank Silicon Valley tech money, Colorado and the emerging cannabis industry. An organized and well-funded alliance is behind Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, with proponents outspending opponents 70-to-1 in an effort to turn the tide in ...