Article by Allison Jones, CBC News Grievances from frustrated pot customers have given the Ontario Cannabis Store the dubious distinction of being the government organization that was the subject of the most complaints to the province’s ombudsman. More than 2,400 Ontario residents complained about the government’s online marijuana store in the wake of delays and delivery problems, the ombudsman said ...

Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network We probably all remember RedeCan’s mouldy and buggy bud. November 30 last year, their first bad batch contained visible white mould which pushed the strain, Bubba Erkle Cookies (B.E.C.) through an infamous recall. Later, customers also found strains with residual insects, and the company refused to refund them. RedeCan let the world know, they were just ...

Article by Solomon Israel, The Leaf News Federal cannabis regulator Health Canada is shaking up its mandatory health warning messages for legal cannabis products by reducing the total number of messages, removing certain statistical claims about the harms of cannabis, and eliminating warnings about cannabis being addictive. The eight new warning messages for all cannabis products will take effect on Oct. 17, 2019, when ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Leafly Cannabis retail chain Canna Cabana, a subsidiary of publicly traded company High Tide, hooked up with Ontario lottery winner Dana Michele Kendal to launch Canna Cabana Toronto at Yonge and College. The brand has already established stores in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Toronto location is the third Ontario outlet for the chain which also ...

Article by Armina Ligaya, CTV News Canada could reach an oversupply of legal pot as soon as the end of this year, depending on how the rollout of edibles and other next-generation products impacts supply, a U.S. cannabis research analyst says. BDS Analytics’ managing director and principal analyst Tom Adams given the pattern in other markets, as well as the ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News Ottawa and the provinces made $186 million from various taxes on cannabis from last October through the end of March, numbers released Wednesday show. The provinces took the lion’s share of that money, with $132 million in combined sales tax and excise tax revenue; the federal treasury took in $55 million. Governments face a dilemma taxing cannabis, says ...

Article by Graeme Frisque, Brampton Guardian Clint Seukeran, owner of Brampton’s only legal cannabis retail store Ganjika House, said aside from some supply issues for higher-quality product, the first couple months of operations has gone smoothly. He also said the biggest lesson he’s learned since opening on April 1 is how many cannabis smokers there actually are in Canada’s ninth-largest ...

Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post Canada will embark on its second wave of cannabis legalization — which will see edibles, concentrates and topicals become available for recreational consumption to the public — on October 17, 2019, almost a year after the government first legalized cannabis dried flower and oils. But government officials expect that only a limited selection of ...

Article by Jesse B. Staniforth, Leafly Unionized workers at one of three branches of the Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) on the Island of Montreal have voted for a strike mandate, saying they want better wages, paid holidays, and bonuses. Workers at the Quebec Crown corporation are paid in a manner commensurate with other employees in the retail industry, and so ...

Article by Kathleen Harris, CBC News Canadians should expect a small initial supply of cannabis edibles when they become legal in mid-December, and the limited range of products won’t include goodies that might appeal to kids, government officials say. Health Canada released new regulations on cannabis edibles, beverages, topicals and extracts today — products that will be on the legal market as early ...