Article by Nicole O’Reilly, The Hamilton Spectator A day after police closed all four Hamilton locations of an illegal cannabis dispensary, changing the locks and barring the doors, Georgia Peach simply moved down the road and opened shop. On Friday, the chain opened at 76 George St., in Hess Village, in the former location of another dispensary, the Blue Ox, and ...

Article by Mike O, Cannabis Life Network If you thought that the Canadian government’s legalization of cannabis was already bad enough, it’s about to get much worse with the impending legalization of edibles and concentrates this October. The government’s efforts to make legal edibles as unappealing as possible to children may end up being so successful that even the adults ...

Article by Star Metro Edmonton, Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis will be issuing 10 additional retail licences for cannabis stores due to a “modest” improvement in supply. In a release, the government said despite an ongoing national cannabis supply shortage, which has made it hard for licensed retailers to access all the types of products they want to offer, the ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Leaf News Canada’s three-month-old legal cannabis market is a ripe target for counterfeiters who could disguise unregulated weed as authentic, government-regulated product, according to an anti-counterfeiting expert and a cannabis technology entrepreneur. “I believe it’s a certainty,” says Lorne Lipkus, chair of the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network and a partner at Toronto law firm Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus. Lipkus practises brand-protection law and ...

Article by Ian Irvine and Rosalie Wyonch, Globe and Mail Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision last fall to put the retailing of cannabis in the hands of the private sector was a good one. The province recently held a lottery to determine who would operate as a cannabis retailer. . The use of a lottery, as opposed to an auction ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, The Hamilton Spectator Police say they seized 250 pounds of process cannabis, 100 pounds of resin and $50,000 in Canadian cash during raids at all four Georgia Peach dispensaries in Hamilton Thursday. In all, 25 employees were arrested and charged with possessing cannabis for the purpose of selling under the Cannabis Act, and possession of property obtained by ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press With Southwestern Ontario facing the strong possibility of getting shut out of the first round of cannabis retailers, one industry expert says allowing marijuana growers to start selling from their production sites would ease the problem. The rights to apply for the first 25 cannabis retail licences were awarded through a lottery system ...

Article by CBC News Greater Sudbury Police say some stores in the city may be unaware that they are selling illegal cannabis products. It seems to be widely known that marijuana is only legally purchased on-line from the Ontario government. But Staff Sergeant Rick Waugh says many businesses don’t realize that that also applies to CBD products such as oil and ...

Article by Bill Kaufmann, Calgary Herald After more than three months of legalized cannabis, Alberta counts 36 per cent of the country’s legal pot shops. Of the 183 licensed marijuana outlets open in all the provinces and territories as of earlier this week, 65 are located in Alberta, which comprises only about 12 per cent of the country’s population. A significant ...

Article by Natalie Paddon, The Hamilton Spectator Twenty-five people are facing 50 charges after Hamilton police and OPP executed warrants at all four Georgia Peach dispensary locations Thursday. “We currently have all four secured and we are in the process of dealing with the people that were found inside, securing the evidence, those kinds of things,” Hamilton police Deputy Chief Dan ...