Dankr.ca – Your Toronto Connection

Article by Maria Loreto, The Fresh Toast via Growth Op It can be a crapshoot with edibles. A person never really knows if her or she has consumed enough, because the effects don’t hit until waiting a few hours or after already having inhaled an entire batch of pot brownies. That could mean bracing for a bad time. Unlike other ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op A U.S. study exploring the impact of pre- and post cannabis use on liver transplant (LT) outcomes found that there weren’t any. Published this month in Clinical Transplantation, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) acknowledge there are some differences. Although significant differences existed between cannabis users and non-users with respect to recipient ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op Language is an ever-evolving thing and cannabis slang has mirrored that to keep pace with changing times, with terms such as weed and bud standing the test of time while other, arguably more interesting names have fallen by the wayside. Digital magazine Green State recently came up with what it regards as some of the weirdest weed ...

Article by Tanya Mok, BlogTO Toronto florist Kim Francisco is arranging the perfect stoner’s bouquet for Valentine’s Day: think tulle, pearls, and a quarter of potent Pink Kush. The Quezon City-born entrepreneur behind the floral design studio Paraluman Flora has announced the launch of her Higher Love Bouquet, in collaboration with Little Italy’s cannabis store, Greenport. It’s definitely not your typical dozen roses, though this ...

Article by Rosa Saba, Toronto Star If you think you’ve seen an awful lot of new cannabis shops popping up around Toronto recently, it’s not your imagination. While many businesses have been struggling during the pandemic, new cannabis retailers keep opening in the city and across Ontario. Lisa Campbell, founder and CEO of cannabis sales and marketing company Mercari Agency, ...

Article by HortiDaily Leamington follows the footsteps of Kingsville (Ontario, Canada) council for a bylaw on light pollution, ordering that light cannot cause a nuisance by shining on neighbouring properties or into the night sky. Because of this new Greenhouse Light Abatement Bylaw, growers must keep ceilings, sidewalls and end walls completely covered with curtains from one hour before sunset ...

Article by Laura Lagano, The Fresh Toast via Growth Op Like many chronic lifestyle-related diseases, inflammation is at the core. Obesity may be no different. When it comes to obesity, doctors oftentimes prescribe medications to treat the accompanying co-morbidities, such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and dysregulated blood glucose. Some note, however, that inflammation is at the root of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar. Substances called cytokines can create other health issues, ...

Article by Steve Darling, Proactive Nextleaf Solutions (CSE: OILS- OTCQB: OILFF) CEO Paul Pedersen joined Steve Darling from Proactive with news the company has been issued its 70th worldwide patent. This one covers the process for acetylating cannabidiol and subsequent refinement of CBD-O-Acetate using a proprietary extraction and distillation technique. Pedersen also shared with Proactive, Health Canada has granted the ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Edmonton Journal Police patrolling the Pacific Highway along Australia’s central east coast were somewhat surprised by what they found after stopping a 76-year-old man at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday morning. The surprise was not the result of the random breath test, why the vehicle was stopped, but because what police call “interaction and conversations” with the ...

Article by Max Monahan-Ellison, Growth Op Drugs for hemorrhoids — that’s where I started my career. You might wonder what working on a clinical trial enrolment strategy for a rectal medication has to do with medical cannabis, however, it kicked off my passion for tackling misunderstood and stigmatized healthcare challenges that have guided me over the last decade. As I ...