Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network Grocery stores are stocked full of labels and claims from companies marketing products and their brands. Health Canada regulates a long list of legal definitions for food in a crude attempt to prevent false advertising, “low-sodium” for example. At the same time, you have “natural,” “pesticide-free” foods still filled with “fungicides” coming from an inorganic ...

Article by Thompson Citizen Stocking stuffers with a kick moved briskly off the shelves at Nova Scotia’s government-operated cannabis shops and at other Canadian vendors that managed to bring in a supply during the leadup to Christmas. In showing off the early offerings of various “edibles” at a Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation outlet on Christmas Eve, spokeswoman Bev Ware noted ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op Canadian licensed producer Aleafia Health Inc. lost a shipment of cannabis of unspecified value on Friday, according to a press release. The Toronto-based company was informed by its unnamed third-party transporter that a vehicle containing a shipment of cannabis bound for wholesale facilities in Ontario was stolen from the carrier’s facility. The cannabis was bound ...

Article by Gord Howard, St. Catherines Standard via Toronto.com Staff at CannTrust’s Pelham facility has been cut by more than half since the Vaughan-based company’s licences to grow and sell cannabis were suspended by Health Canada in September. In July, Health Canada inspectors found cannabis being grown in unlicensed rooms there. They seized more than 4,000 kilograms of “implicated product” ...

Article by Adam Miller, CBC News The holidays are here, meaning Canadians will be celebrating with family, taking some much deserved time off and gearing up for the new year. It’s also, coincidentally, when new cannabis products will be trickling onto the market. Edibles, beverages, vapes and topicals – such as lotions – became legal for sale in Canada on Dec. ...

Article by Daniel Safayeni, Policy Options Ontario has an opportunity to be a global leader in cannabis, an opportunity that comes with thousands of jobs and considerable economic growth. With province recently putting an end to the retail lottery system for stores and the arrival of legal edibles, extracts and topicals, the province is at an exciting crossroads. If the government continues ...

Article by Peter Smith, Daily Hive A Canadian medical cannabis producer is reporting a shipment of an undisclosed amount of cannabis intended for sale was stolen from the carrier company they hired to deliver it. Aleafia Health Inc, based in Concord, Ontario, said in a release on Friday that it had “received an update from a third-party transportation company regarding a shipment ...

Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network It has been a long disappointing wait for cannabis to become fully legal in Canada. As regulations continued to rollout, hope for medicinal patients has dissipated into a DIY abyss. Now, the wait for Legalization 2.0 has come to an end – almost. Legalization 2.0 – Sinking into the sea Limits on branding, advertising, and packaging are ...

Article by Jordan Gill, CBC News A recall has been issued on certain Cannabis extract pills sold at Cannabis NB that were mislabeled as containing CBD when they actually contained THC. CBD is a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis that many believe has medical benefits. THC is the psychoactive compound in cannabis and produces the high most commonly associated with the ...

Article by James Keller, Globe and Mail An RCMP investigation into illegal cannabis dispensaries led to an Edmonton-based online payment service, which the force alleges helped facilitate tens of thousands of transactions worth $15-million . Four directors of the company, Moxipay, have been charged with money laundering and other offences in a case that underscores how governments and the industry ...