Dankr.ca – Your Toronto Connection

Article by CBC News Now that you can grow your own cannabis plants at home, a different kind of business has sprouted — including professionals who teach you how to grow your own. David Weaver is a technical sales representative at Sun Parlour Cannabis Grower Supply who has been growing medical cannabis for about five years. “I got my designated grower ...

Article by Douglas Quan, National Post In the spring of 2014, RCMP officers in Kelowna, B.C. prepared a press release about a big drug bust at the local airport. It described how investigators had intercepted two shipments of marijuana of “unfathomable quantity” that were bound for a couple of licensed cannabis producers in Ontario. The press release, however, was never ...

Articel by Daily Hive Before cannabis was legalized, there was a lot of buzz about how laws for how personal growing would be dictated. In Ontario, a limit of four plants per household was set — the maximum allowed by the Cannabis Act. Since then, some high-minded gardeners have developed even greener thumbs, but for newcomers, it can be a little ...

Article by Nick Boisvert, CBC News There’s a back room at Toronto’s historic Broadview Faith Temple that looks a lot like a cannabis dispensary, but the man who will be running the place describes it differently. “This is where members of the Rastafarian faith [will] come in and get sacrament,” said David Holmes, 52, the founder of the Sanctuary of the ...

Article by Monte Sonnenberg, Simcoe Reformer Producers of legal marijuana in Norfolk might want to figure out ways to seal off their operations from the outdoor environment. This week, Norfolk principal planner Mat Vaughan said farmers interested in the production of hemp have contacted county offices. If hemp is added to the agricultural mix in Norfolk, Vaughan says it will ...

Toronto is an amazing city for cannabis with so many diverse events going on. Here is a list of the events going on this upcoming week and weekend: Monday, June 3, 2019: 2nd Annual Indigenous Cannabis Cup When: 00:01am1:00pm Where: 283 ON-49, Deseronto, ON K0K 1X0 Price: $25 day pass, $75 weekend pass and $200 VIP, Tickets here. Tuesday, June 4, 2019: Wednesday, June 5, ...

Article by Bill Kaufmann, Calgary Herald Canadian border agents seized dramatically larger amounts of pot in the months following legalization of the drug. From October through December of last year, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confiscated nearly 574 kilograms of cannabis products, including dried flower, resins and other concentrates, states the federal government department’s statistics. That compares with about ...

Article by Kady O’Malley, iPolitics When the curtain rises on the Commons today, MPs will focus their collective attention onPublic Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s bid to set up a “no-cost, expedited record suspensions for simple possession of cannabis,” which, it’s worth noting, may have made it through the legislative machinery in what is, at least for this government, record time, but underwent a ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star More than half a year in, Canada’s relaxed cannabis laws appear to be earning a clean bill of health from major medical organizations. While many hard numbers on health shifts are not yet available, some of the country’s largest mental health and emergency centres say the new laws have dumped no discernible increase in ...

Article by Marcy Nicholson, Globe and Mail AGLC lifts cannabis retail licence freeze AGLC will issue five retail licences weekly Retail licence moratorium could be reinstated if inventory takes “drastic downturn” Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) has lifted its moratorium on cannabis retail licences due to improved supplies and will issue five licences weekly going forward, the government agency ...