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Article by Roxanne Egan-Elliott, Times Colonist A show of support from the City of Victoria and the B.C. government is giving members of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club new hope that they might soon be able to operate legally. After two raids by provincial officers in less than a year — about $60,000 in cannabis products were seized — the ...

Article by Sam Riches, Growth Op Seventeen healthcare professionals who have been waiting more than 100 days to learn whether or not they will be able to access psilocybin mushrooms for training purposes have received the support of three members of Parliament, including Elizabeth May. The doctors, nurses, clinical counsellors, social workers and psychiatrists have applied for Section 56 exemptions ...

Article by Brady Strachan, CBC News The harvest of 60,000 cannabis plants is underway in Rock Creek, B.C., in what is expected to be one of the largest legal outdoor marijuana crops in North America. The 24 hectacres of marijuana at the SpeakEasy Cannabis Company’s farm are kept secure behind a large chain-link fence equipped with surveillance and motion sensor cameras and barbed wire ...

Article by Andrew Philips, Orillia Matters Police have shut down a major cannabis grow operation at a vacant Midland factory. Members of the OPP’s organized crime enforcement branch along with officers from the Southern Georgian Bay detachment’s street crime unit executed a search warrant as part of a Cannabis Act investigation.at about 6 p.m. Monday. “Officers located 10,000 growing cannabis ...

Article by Marijuana Business Daily Ontario’s cannabis store regulator has started issuing 10 Retail Store Authorizations (RSA) per week, double the previous pace of five new stores weekly. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario said in a notice on its website that “… as of Sept. 28, it will move from issuing five to 10 RSAs each week.” The move will ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op One Chatham resident took the law into his own hands this weekend to protect his precious homegrown pot patch from a pesky thief. The grower, a homeowner on Park Street, realized that a man was trying to steal his legally-cultivated cannabis plants just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25, Chatham Daily News reports. The homeowner ...

Article by Kitchener Today Two residents of Kitchener are facing drug possession charges after an incident in Listowel. It happened the morning of September 9. A concerned resident called Ontario Provincial Police, after the resident noticed two people passed out in a vehicle that was still running, in a parking lot. When police and paramedics arrived on scene, they also ...

Article by Jeff Lagerquist, Yahoo Finance Canada Nelson Peltz has resigned as a strategic advisor to Aurora Cannabis (ACB.TO)(ACB), ending an 18-month collaboration that dashed expectations for a deal based on the billionaire investor’s mighty rolodex. The CEO and founding partner of New York-based Trian Fund Management LP was expected to leverage his connections to major U.S. consumer goods firms like ...

Article by Monte Sonnenberg, Kingston Whig-Standard There’s been another major marijuana seizure in Norfolk County. OPP on Sept. 24 executed a search warrant at a property on Windham Rd. 12 north of Simcoe. When police arrived, some people at the scene attempted to flee. A total of 27 people were arrested without incident while marijuana with an estimated street value ...

Article by Owen Wolter, Windsorite Leamington OPP have arrested four people and have seized around 500 cannabis plants and processed cannabis following a drug investigation. Police, including the OPP Community Street Crime Unit, the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team and the Essex County Canine Unit executed Cannabis Act search warrants at two locations in Leamington, last Tuesday. Police say ...