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Article by Greg Mercer, Waterloo Region Record Waterloo Regional Police used a search warrant to bust a prominent downtown marijuana dispensary Friday night, seizing significant quantities of pot and cash. The raid at Green Tree Medical Dispensary on King Street came after an investigation that began last month into the region’s unlicensed marijuana dispensaries, which the police say are illegal ...

Article by Mike Hager, The Globe and Mail The federal government should use a court decision ordering it to rewrite the rules on medical marijuana as an opportunity to legalize the storefront sale of such medicine, experts and commercial growers say. A Federal Court judge in British Columbia ruled earlier this week that patients have a right to grow their ...

Article by Daniel Tencer, Huffington Post Canada’s publicly-traded marijuana companies saw their stocks dive Wednesday, after the Liberal government’s point man on legalization cautioned the government will take its time on the move. Ontario-based Canopy Growth — which bills itself as the world’s largest medical marijuana producer — saw its market value plunge nearly 18 per cent between Monday’s close ...

Article by Associated Press via High Times The Denver FBI has honored a youth dropout prevention group apparently without realizing it is partially funded with marijuana taxes. Youth on Record Executive Director Jami Duffy mentioned the funding Thursday as she accepted the Director’s Community Leadership Award at Denver FBI headquarters. She said the program that focuses on music received $75,000 ...

Article by Tess Allen, Civilized Claiming to be the “greatest job producer God has ever created”, as President Donald J. Trump has done in the past, comes with a certain set of responsibilities. One might say, for instance, that cracking down on the job-heavy cannabis industry, as members of Trump’s administration have indicated they will do, may not be the ...

Article by James McClure, CIvilized Celebrity podcaster Adam Carolla supports marijuana legalization, but there’s one thing he doesn’t like about today’s weed. It’s too damn strong. “The problem with marijuana is that it’s a little too good,” he said in a recent interview with Spike. “Back when I used to smoke pot…it was a lot of shake and a lot ...

Article by Nicholas Casey, The New York Times For years, Blanca Riveros has had the same routine: After fixing breakfast and taking her son to school, she heads home to a large plastic trash bag filled with marijuana. She trims the plants and gets them ready for Colombian drug traffickers. After school, her son helps cut more. The business was ...

Article by Trevor Hughes, USA Today America’s marijuana industry isn’t sure where President Trump and his attorney general stand on marijuana, but it is forging ahead with expansion plans anyway. Cannabis businesses are hiring new workers, leasing new space and pushing across state borders. And regulators are drafting rules that will give access to legal recreational pot to tens of millions of adults. ...

Article by Katie Forster, Independant Chemicals found in cannabis could be used to help treat dementia, early studies have shown – but further research into the findings is being stymied by restrictive drug laws, said scientists. Cannabinoids like tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can aid the removal of dangerous dementia proteins from brain cells, according to researchers at the Salk Institute, a renowned biomedical ...

Article by Matt Robinson, Vancouver Sun In some respects, the news that Vancouver police raided Marc and Jodie Emery’s Cannabis Culture storefront Thursday comes as little surprise. Raids happen from time to time, even here in Vancouver, where pot shops are more common than McDonald’s restaurants and many of them have business licences. And the Prince and Princess of Pot tend to thumb their noses at the authorities — more so than ...