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Article by David Wylie, Daily Courier It has long been established that cannabis affects people differently. Longer than you might think, in fact. Take the experience of a group of British sailors in the 1670s. During their travels in Eastern India, they tried tea laced with cannabis (called bangha tea). Thomas Bowrey, an English merchant and mariner in the East ...

Article by Teviah Moro, Hamilton Spectator Councillors want a provincial buffer-zone policy that prevents clusters of pot shops in Hamilton with dozens of applications for new outlets filed. “We are a host city, but I just think this will be prudent and preventive down a road to avoid a disproportionate number of these in one location,” Coun. Tom Jackson said Friday. ...

Article by Jeremy Kemeny, The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton’s legal cannabis market is going to get crowded in the coming months with retail applications pending across the city. Forty-eight retail licence applications are being processed by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO). Four of those potential stores are in the process of receiving public scrutiny, the other 44 have ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op The Town of Pelham has slapped Woodstock Biomed Inc. with a provincial offences charge, believing that the business is running a large-scale cannabis grow despite the municipal interim prohibiting such operations. The town characterizes its Cannabis Interim Control Bylaw (ICB) as being clear. “The ICB contained a simple prohibition and the town is fulfilling ...

Article by Mary Sauer, The Fresh Toast Pain management is one of the most common reason doctor’s are prescribing medical marijuana. Treating chronic pain can be complicated and for some, cannabis provides an effective alternative that some argue comes with lower risks than more conventional treatment methods. If one of the 20 per cent of Americans with chronic pain who is also considering ...

Article by Sam Riches, Growth Op The founders of Paragon, a blockchain platform intended to “build blockchain into every step of the cannabis industry,” are wanted by the United States federal judiciary. The problem, as CoinDesk reports, is they are nowhere to be found. Paragon was started by Jessica VerSteeg, an Iowa beauty queen who took the Miss Iowa US title in 2014, and ...

Article by Glen Korstrom, Business in Vancouver British Columbians have never bought so much legal weed. The province’s legal cannabis retailers sold $29,393,000 worth of recreational marijuana products in June – almost seven times the $4,230,000 in revenue that they generated in June, 2019, Statistics Canada revealed August 21. This is the sixth straight month when the province’s legal cannabis ...

Article by Allan Benner, St. Catherines Standard Law enforcement agencies cracked down on what Ontario Provincial Police described as an international “criminal enterprise” last week, seizing an estimated $42 million in drugs, equipment, weapons and other items, and arresting eight suspects. A Jordan greenhouse surrounded by police Aug. 13 was likely one of 26 locations searched by officers last week ...

Article by Mira Miller, Blog TO Ontario Provincial Police and their partners just completed a 12-month-long investigation into a massive illegal cannabis network, resulting in the seizure of $2.5 million, more than 100,000 illegal cannabis plants, and 1,921 pounds of illegal cannabis. Dubbed Project WOOLWICH, the OPP worked with several partners including the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team (PJFCET), Organized Crime Enforcement ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Marijuana Business Daily Canadian retail sales of adult-use cannabis crested yet again in June, increasing 7.9% over the record set in May. Monthly retail sales grew in every Canadian province, reaching nearly 201.1 million Canadian dollars ($152.1 million), new figures from Statistics Canada show. The national monthly increase reflects natural market growth and improved capture of consumers away from ...