Article by National Post Leaders of indigenous groups have joined a growing list of people asking the federal government to delay its plans to make recreational marijuana legal in Canada by next summer. The Metis National Council and the Chiefs of Ontario are before the House of Commons health committee as it reviews the federal pot legislation. Ontario Regional Chief ...
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Marijuana Activist Dana Larsen to Address Federal Health Committee
Article by Emily Lazatin, Global News While federal and provincial officials continue their talks on marijuana legalization in Vancouver, a local pot activist is in Ottawa. Dana Larsen speaks to the Standing Health Committee Friday morning, arguing that edible pot products should be part of legislation right off the bat. “Not just edibles, but also any form of extracts. So tinctures, drops, ...
Read More »Study: Just How Much Marijuana are Canadians Using? About 7.5 million Canadians or 26 Percent of the Population Currently Consume Cannabis
Article by The Fresh Toast Nearly 11.5 million Canadians, or 39 percent of adult-age Canadians have admitted they will be cannabis consumers if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s legalization plans for 2018 come to bloom, and as a country, 57 percent of Canadians are supportive of the Prime Minister’s plan for changing the cannabis laws. This is according to a newly ...
Read More »Want a Job Selling Legal Marijuana? You Face an Awkward Dilemma
Article by Patrick Cain, Global News It would make for a seriously awkward job interview. Ontario plans to have 150 publicly owned marijuana stores open across the province by 2020. They’ll be staffed by people with what provincial employees’ union chief Warren ‘Smokey’ Thomas calls “good union jobs.” (Hourly wages for Ontario liquor store workers top out at over $27 an hour.) And, as chance ...
Read More »Have Canadian Researchers Found a Way to Reverse Pot’s Harmful Effects on Adolescent Brain?
Article by Misha Gajewski, CTV News Western University researchers might have found a way to reverse the negative effects of the psycho-active ingredient in marijuana on the adolescent brain. Chronic cannabis use during adolescence has been linked to the development of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia later in adulthood. But, according to a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports ...
Read More »Will B.C. Follow Ontario’s Lead When It Comes To Distributing Marijuana?
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Read More »Quebec to Ban Homegrown Marijuana: Report
Article by Montreal Gazette The Couillard government will not allow Quebecers to grow their own marijuana at home, despite the fact federal legislation scheduled to go in effect next July would allow them to do so, La Presse reported Thursday. The provincial government reportedly feels that the guidelines limiting the number and height of plants permitted to be cultivated in private ...
Read More »Karma Cup 2017 Testing – Final Montage
Video by Micheal Kushbury I was a judge at the 2017 Karma Cup Elite Cannabis Competition and produced a series of :60 second videos documenting my experience as I tested all the products entered. Things eventually get hairy… it was a crazy two weeks! Enjoy! See source here.
Read More »Karma Cup 2017 Testing – The Mother of all Edible Montages
Video by Micheal Kushbury I was a judge at the 2017 Karma Cup Elite Cannabis Competition and produced a series of :60 second videos documenting my experience as I tested all the products entered. Things eventually get hairy… it was a crazy two weeks! Enjoy! Read full article here.
Read More »Karma Cup 2017 Testing – Even More Concentrates!
Video by Micheal Kushbury I was a judge at the 2017 Karma Cup Elite Cannabis Competition and produced a series of :60 second videos documenting my experience as I tested all the products entered. Things eventually get hairy… it was a crazy two weeks! Enjoy! See source here.
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