Article by Jeff Lagerquist, Yahoo Finance Canada Cannabis retail sales topped $100 million for the first time post-recreational legalization in July, according to data from Statistics Canada. The federal agency said on Friday that “gains at cannabis stores were widespread, and across all provinces, with double-digit growth in eight provinces.” That pushed non-seasonally adjusted sales to $104 million, a 14.3 per ...

Article by Elizabeth Hames, Growth Op Canada’s retail cannabis industry is growing at a furious pace. In November 2018 — the first full month of legalization — Canadians spent just $54 million on legal weed. By July of this year, monthly sales had nearly doubled, surpassing $100 million for the first time ever, according to StatsCan. And that number is ...

Article by Brad Martin, Leafly High-THC strains are in high demand across Canada as cannabis buyers seek out the most potent products on the market. Often equated with offering “more bang for your buck,” high-THC cannabis can, for some, provide the most intoxicating effects, while for others, a high dose is simply a recipe to fall asleep. Below, we summarize details ...

Article by Bill Kaufmann, Growth Op In the first major product rejection in Alberta since legalization of recreational cannabis, the province’s regulator has returned about $1.3-million worth of pot to its producer. Ontario-based CannTrust said wholesaler Alberta Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis (AGLC) has sent back the purchased product after Health Canada on Tuesday suspended its authority to produce the product ...

Article by Harold Carmichael The Sudbury Star The arrest this week of Derek Roque – co-owner of the Creator’s Choice cannabis dispensary on the Wahnapitae First Nation – should never have happened, says a band council member. “We don’t need (an Ontario) licence to do this,” councillor Ted Roque told reporters at a protest outside the Sudbury Courthouse on Thursday, ...

Article by Elizabeth Hames, Windsor Star As the legalization of edible cannabis approaches in Canada, the industry has yet to solve one of its greatest challenges: packaging. Since October 17, cannabis companies have been plagued with problems associated with packaging. Apart from the fact that cannabis packages are really boring (thanks, Health Canada), they are also an environmental disaster. One customer reported receiving ...

Article by Chelsea Papineau, CTV News Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) tells CTV News they are conducting a joint forces raid, involving the cannabis enforcement team, with the Anishinabek Police Service(APS) on Wahnapitae First Nation again Wednesday. Two First Nation cannabis dispensaries, Creator’s Choice Natural Health Solutions and First Nations Medicinal, were also raided back in January. First Nations Medicinal posted ...

Article by Claire Brownell, MacLean’s Magazine At midnight on Oct. 17, 2018—the second it became legal to sell cannabis—Christopher Duffitt was ready. His store, Puff Puff Pass Head Shop, opened its doors to a lineup of customers in Clarenville, Nfld., a town of 6,300 people northwest of St. John’s. But it quickly became clear that the business wouldn’t be open ...

Article by Mark Bonokoski, Toronto Sun In the pre-writ month of August, when our Liberal prime minister was dishing out billions like candy, Liberal MP Mike Bossio showed up at the Tyendinaga Mohawk reserve with his own cheque in hand. None of the national media chose to attend, however, deciding that the promise of a few thousand bucks for a ...

Article by Michael Lee, North Bay Nugget Nipissing First Nation is allowing the community to have its say on a series of applications for a cannabis retail store and a pair of grow operations. Notices posted online state that those with “legitimate concerns or valid objections” about a business licence application for an indoor cannabis grow operation at the Highway ...