Article by Solomon Israel, Leaf News At least two different licensed cannabis stores in Alberta are offering certain varieties of marijuana at significant discounts, despite an ongoing shortage of legal weed at the retail level across Canada. “I think that in the context of an overall supply shortage, it is strange to be seeing these discounts,” said Rosalie Wyonch, a policy analyst with the C.D. ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press An east London cannabis dispensary that continued operating after police raided it last month closed its doors on Monday after receiving an eviction notice from its landlord. A joint police task force created to stamp out illegal pot shops has carried out six raids in London since Canada legalized recreational cannabis on Oct. ...

Article by Solomon Israel, The Leaf News Federal figures suggest Canada is awash in government-approved cannabis, but some provincial cannabis distributors would beg to differ. Licensed marijuana producers, processors, distributors and retailers held 19,085 kilograms of ready-to-sell dried cannabis in their inventories as of Dec. 31, federal figures released Tuesday show. A fraction of that — 7,252 kilograms of dried cannabis — was sold that ...

Article by Natalia Goodwin, CBC News A P.E.I. cannabis producer says it’s developing new packaging that will be better for the environment after receiving complaints from customers. “We’ve certainly been listening to the consumers as they’ve had the experience of trying our product and using and seeing our packaging,” said Edwin Jewell, CEO of FIGR, the only recreational cannabis producer operating on P.E.I. “In response ...

Article by Marcy Nicholson, Globe and Mail Canadian cannabis producers facing large energy bills to heat their indoor operations are increasingly looking to lower-cost countries closer to the equator to grow their medical crop, as investors increasingly scout for companies that promise a global competitive edge. . Legal pot growers guided by Health Canada’s strict production regulations have made significant ...

Article by Toronto Sun High Tide Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire a minority interest in one of the lottery winners selected to apply for one of the first 25 cannabis retail licences in Ontario. Financial terms of the agreement between the unidentified winner and High Tide weren’t disclosed by the company, which has seven Canna Cabana ...

Article by Jon Hernandez, CBC News The City of Vancouver is moving forward to crack down on more than two dozen illegal pot shops that are still open for business despite a B.C. Supreme Court order to cease operations. Last month, the B.C. Supreme Court ordered dozens of shops to close, after the city filed 53 injunction applications against the dispensaries. A handful of them ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, Brock University pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains matter-of-factly. “There’s all kinds of cannabis in Canada,” says Armstrong, who teaches operations management at the St. Catharines school. “It’s the legal cannabis that we’re short of.” And to successfully compete with a ...

Article by Alexandra Toutant, MTL Blog Health Canada released statistics that may appear surprising to many: at the end of December, there were 128,000 kg of finished and unfinished cannabis in the inventories of licensed producers, retailers, and provincial distributors, along with 65,000 litres of cannabis oil. This supply is, according to Tammy Jarbeau, senior spokeswoman for Health Canada, “nearly 18 times greater ...

Article by Mitch Koczerginski, Lyndsay A. Wasser and Sara Ruhani, Mondaq The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently released a guidance document for Canadian private sector cannabis retailers who collect personal information from their customers. The safeguarding of personal information in the context of cannabis transactions is particularly significant since cannabis is illegal in most jurisdictions outside of Canada, which makes ...