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Article by Josh Boyce, Blackburn News The CEO and co-founder of a chain of Ontario cannabis stores thinks Sarnia can sustain a dozen or more retail pot shops. Steven Fry made the comment Wednesday as the company celebrated the grand opening of its new location at 600 Murphy Road. He said typically a city can support one shop per 5,000 population. Fry said ...

Article by Andrew Mendler, Midland Mirror A 40-year-old Midland man has been nailed with a series of hefty charges after being pulled over by police on Jan. 28. An officer with the Southern Georgian Bay OPP stopped a vehicle on Main Street in Penetanguishene shortly after midnight. The officer spoke with the driver and suspected that he was under the influence ...

Article by Judy George, MedPage Today Access to legal cannabis stores was linked with fewer opioid deaths in the U.S., a new analysis suggested. The number of marijuana dispensaries in a county was negatively related to log-transformed opioid mortality rate, adjusted for age (β -0.17, 95% CI -0.23 to -0.11), reported Balázs Kovács, PhD, of Yale University School of Management ...

Article by Dominik Wisniewski, Northumberland News While other businesses are struggling during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis retail stores have been seeing increasing sales across the province. That steady growth has led to optimism for many cannabis retailers, including five who have made applications to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) to open locations in Northumberland County. All these applications are ...

Article by Paul Armentano, NORML The enactment of marijuana legalization in Canada preceded a “marked decline” in the volume of opioids prescribed to patients enrolled in both public and private health care plans, according to data published in the journal Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. A team on investigators affiliated with the University of Toronto assessed the volume of opioids prescribed, and ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op It’s a mix of good and bad when it comes to how weed might help entrepreneurs come up with creative and feasible business ideas, although seasoned business players with less “out-there” thoughts seem to experience fewer ups and downs. Appearing in the Journal of Business Venturing, new research out of Washington State University (WSU) suggests ...

Article by Addison Herron-Wheeler, High Times Canada is already miles ahead of the U.S. when it comes to federal legalization of cannabis, something America is still weighing and discussing, and now Canada has taken another step towards normalizing cannabis by offering gift cards in some Circle K locations. To be specific, the locations are for Fire & Flower dispensary, a well-known dispensary ...

Article by Alan Shackleton, Beach Metro The City of Toronto and Tuggs Inc. may be headed towards a legal showdown regarding the lease for the property at 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E. Late last month a notice by the company Miss Jones that it was seeking authorization for a licence to operate a cannabis retail store from the Alcohol and ...

Article by Regina Leader-Post Callie Mclaughlin is a Shop Lead at Tokyo Smoke and supports the community events team for all Tweed and Tokyo Smoke stores across Manitoba. She’s been working for Canopy Growth for more than two years — this means, she’s basically a veteran in this industry. When she’s not in the shop recommending Hindu Kush to yet ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op COVID-19 might be keeping many Canadians indoors and idle, but the activity has not slowed for a number of cannabis providers who continue to identify new and innovative approaches to benefit marijuana consumers. Consider what’s going on in Quebec. ROSE LifeScience Inc. — a private company created in 2016 that is committed to ensuring ...