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Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Ottawa police cracked down on the city’s illegal marijuana shops last week, raiding three of them. All three establishments restocked their shelves and opened again, demonstrating how difficult it has become to control the growth of dispensaries. There are at least 19 shops in Ottawa, more than when police began raiding them almost a year ...

Article by Lift News Toronto Police announced today that on Thursday, August 24, 2017, at 6 a.m., officers executed search warrants for a ‘drug lab’ and seized large sums of cannabis, edibles and cannabis products like shatter. Police say they seized 83.5 kg of marijuana, with what they say is a street value of $1 million, 26.3 kg of edible ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Lift News While you will only be able to grow 4 plants at a time and will only have the ability to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis or its equivalent in public, Canada will become the first country to forego a limit on the amount of recreational marijuana you will be allowed to possess ...

Article by David Migoya, The Denver Post There was a time when marijuana was illegal everywhere and testing for it was as easy as could be. It didn’t matter the level of cannabinoids found in a person’s body. If it was there, they were breaking the law. It’s different now. The tests have changed from depositing a urine sample into ...

Article by Andrew Ward, Cannabis Culture The obsolete policies of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions are destined for a date before the courts. This time, Sessions is being taken to court by an array of activist patients, now plaintiffs, including a former NFL defensive end and an 11-year-old girl. The case broadly aims to decriminalize marijuana by challenging the the 1970 Controlled Substance Act. That, ...

Article by Dan Adams, Boston Globe An arm of the White House’s antidrug office has asked Massachusetts and several other states where medical marijuana is legal to turn over information about registered patients, triggering a debate over privacy rights and whether state officials should cooperate with a federal administration that appears hostile to the drug. Dale Quigley, deputy coordinator of ...

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 August 28, 2017: Green Valley Wellness – Soft Opening in Whitby When: 10:00am-6:00pm Where: 1910 Dundas St. E., Whitby Price: Free food and beverages Ganja Pranayama (All Levels) When: 5:00pm-6:30pm Where: The House of Yoga ...

Article by Dr. Frank, Cannabis Culture Whilst the jury is out on whether cannabis can cure cancer, there are a heck of a lot of people saying that using it helps at least. At the moment, cannabis is usually recommended for help in overcoming the side-effects of chemotherapy, rather than the cancer itself. However, there is an increasing amount of evidence – mostly ...

Article by The Guardian Netflix has co-created a set of cannabis strains based on a selection of its most popular original shows. The set, called The Netflix Collection, will be sold as part of a pop-up event at Alternative Herbal Health Services in West Hollywood from 25-27 August to legal medical marijuana card-holding customers. Federal laws prevent the products being available ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News The Union of BC Municipalities will once again be discussing cannabis legalization at their upcoming annual convention being held this year in Vancouver. The convention will take place from Sept 25-29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The UBCM is preparing an executive resolution for debate at the 2017 convention that will seek to provide ...