Article by CBC News For the first time, Canadians are busy planting weeds in their gardens, rather than trying to prevent them. Or more accurately, they’re planting “weed” in their gardens. The federal Cannabis Act specifies that each household can cultivate up to four plants — either indoors or out. Manitoba and Quebec have opted to prohibit homegrown cannabis, but ...

Article by Colin Dacre, Castanet Former Penticton pot shop owner and two-time mayoral candidate Jukka Laurio is taking his case to trial in the B.C. Supreme Court. Laurio appeared in court Tuesday to plead not guilty to one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking in relation to the May 2018 police raid on his cannabis store in OK Falls. He elected ...

Article by Darren MacDonald, Sudbury.com By this time next week, Greater Sudbury will have two cannabis stores, and the owner of the HighLife store on Marcus Drive couldn’t be happier. “I’m super happy,” Anton Lucic said Friday. “And I’m relieved, I guess. But more than anything, I’m really excited to get going.” Lucic was one of two lottery winners picked ...

Article by The Sachem A 36-year-old Haldimand County man faces numerous charges after police raided an illegal cannabis shop in Caledonia last week. On May 17, the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau of the Ontario Provincial Police searched the storefront on Sutherland Street. As a result, police seized a quantity of illegal cannabis. Brian Haskett has been charged with five counts ...

Article by Jen Beard, CBC News An Ottawa pot shop is being forced to significantly reduce its hours because it’s consistently running out of cannabis and says the province won’t allow it to increase its order. The Hobo Recreational Cannabis Store on Bank Street, which was operating seven days a week for 14 hours a day, will now close early on Tuesdays ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News The cannabis growers who had to design cannabis containers faced a long, rigid set of federal rules, and not much time to figure out how to comply with them. The containers have to have a matte finish, opaque or translucent and be child-resistant (and there are a whole separate set of rules for what that means). The rules go ...

Article by CBC News London now has a third bricks-and-mortar cannabis store. Tweed – located on Wellington Road South near White Oaks mall – opened its doors at 5 p.m. Friday. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario said the store passed its pre-opening inspection earlier in the day. “They opened up earlier than expected. They want to make sure ...

Article by Alana Everson, CTV News The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario confirms it has finally issued a retail operator licence to Anton Lucic and a retail store authorization to the store he plans to operate, Highlife, on Marcus Drive in Sudbury. A pre-opening inspection must still be completed by the AGCO to ensure the operator is ready to open for business ...

Article by Colin Harris, CBC News Starting Monday, Quebec’s retail cannabis shops will be open all week. The Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) had to close its outlets Mondays to Wednesdays soon after pot was legalized in Canada last October, as it struggled to keep up with demand. In February, the shops reopened on Wednesdays but remained closed two days a week. Now, the provincial corporation says ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op The owner of a cannabis accessory store raided in April is claiming that despite what police have told the public, there was no illicit cannabis seized from his shop – because there was no illicit cannabis in the shop, St Catharines Standard reports. Green Light District, located in the Fitch Street Plaza in Welland, Ontario, ...