Article by Ricardo Veneza, CTV Windsor Six people are facing Cannabis Act charges following a joint operation between OPP and the Windsor Police Service. Provincial Police report officers executed two search warrants at storefronts on University Avenue West and on Tecumseh Road West, both near Church Street, in Windsor on Thursday. Four people, all from Windsor, are charged following the ...

Article by  Milbank News More than half of Ontario‘s eligible municipalities have opted in as willing hosts to cannabis stores as the first locations are set to open in a little over two months. Municipalities were given until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday to tell the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario if they were opting out of hosting the stores within ...

Article by Darren MacDonald, Elliot Lake Today The owners of Greater Sudbury’s second cannabis retail store say they are working as fast as they can to open, with the goal to be operating as close to April 1 as possible. April 1 is the first day retail cannabis stores can operate in Ontario. It has been known for weeks that a ...

Article by Doug Schmidt, Windsor Star At least two suspected retail pot shops were raided by police in Windsor on Thursday, including one previously targeted in November. “Whatever — life goes on,” said Windsor pot activist Leo Lucier when asked about the latest drug raid on his Compassion House cannabis dispensary located at 405 Wyandotte St. W. A joint police ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Ontario is unlikely to meet its target of having 25 privately owned cannabis shops open by April 1, an analysis of licence applications shows. Four of the lottery winners who won the right to apply for the coveted first wave of licences haven’t even announced their locations yet. For those four, from Toronto and ...

Article by Kevin Maimann, Star Edmonton A genetic test that claims to predict how people will react to cannabis has launched in stores across Alberta. Lobo Genetics set up its Cube platform at five Nova Cannabis stores Thursday, including two in Edmonton and one each in Calgary, Fort Saskatchewan and Spruce Grove. In under an hour, the $30 test supposedly ...

Article by Teviah Moro, The Hamilton Spectator A second application for a legal marijuana retail outlet in Hamilton has reached the provincial government’s authorization stage. The prospective operator of Hello Cannabis Store hopes to open at 57 Cootes Dr., a small commercial plaza in Dundas. If approved, the west end store, along with Canna Cabana Hamilton at the Centre on Barton ...

Article by Greg Mercer, Waterloo Region Record via Toronto Star Since Canada legalized cannabis in October, medicinal marijuana users say their costs have jumped noticeably — pushing more of them to find cheaper sources on the black market. For the more than 300,000 licensed medical users in this country, federal excise taxes ushered in with legalization have been a bone of contention. ...

Article by Michael J. Armstrong, National Post This month the federal government sent the first cannabis excise tax payments to the provinces. But almost none of the amounts was disclosed. That’s likely because the cheques were smaller than officials had expected. But perhaps it’s also because medical cannabis clients think the taxes are unfair. British Columbia is the only province ...

Article by Manisha Krishnan, Vice News One of Vancouver’s well-known hospitality companies is being criticized for using a term associated with homeless people in the name of its new chain of recreational weed stores. Donnelly Group, the company behind a slew of pubs and bars in Vancouver and Toronto, is opening a chain of Hobo Recreational Cannabis Stores in BC and ...