Article by Newswire A class action was certified against Organigram Inc. (the “Company” or “Organigram”) and its parent company Organigram Holdings Inc. (TSX VENTURE: OGI) (OTCQX: OGRMF), a leading licensed producer of cannabis in Canada, on Friday, January 18, 2019. Certification is not a decision on the merits of the lawsuit, but simply deals with the proper procedure for a lawsuit, which ...

Article by Julia Wright, CBC News The provincial government is pretty clear on its website: Cannabis NB is “the only legal retailer of cannabis.” But you wouldn’t know that from the steady stream of consumers filtering in and out of King Canna, a Saint John medical dispensary on a lunch hour in January — three months after New Brunswick launched its government monopoly ...

Article by Calvin Hughes, Civilized Michigan’s medical marijuana market is facing a serious supply shortage, so the state is turning to the black market to solve it. All unlicensed cannabis businesses in Michigan were forced to close on December 31, leaving patients with few places to legally buy medical marijuana. To fight this issue, the Michigan Medical Marihuana Licensing Board will temporarily ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star via Hamilton Spectator As the Jan. 22 deadline to accept or decline cannabis shops looms, more than a third of the 414 eligible municipalities in the province have yet to decide. As of Friday afternoon, councils representing some 170 cities, towns, townships and regions across the province had not exercised their option to bar ...

Article by Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Toronto Star Warehouse workers should see a slice of cannabis industry profits in a sector where precarious employment is a growing concern, according to the head of Ontario’s public sector union. Speaking to the Star, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) president Warren “Smokey” Thomas said the drive to unionize a privately run warehouse supplying the ...

Article by Julia Wright, CBC News Cannabis NB employees at two New Brunswick stores have taken the first steps toward joining a union. The announcement from the New Brunswick Union, which represents many public employees in the province, comes just over a week after a major round of layoffs at the cannabis authority. A majority of employees at the Campbellton and Miramichi Cannabis ...

Article by Karen Graham, Digital Journal Close to 17,000 individuals and a very few companies threw their name into the lottery pot, all hoping to win the “golden ticket,” much like the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie from 2005. The trouble with Ontario’s lottery is that it is being viewed as one of the most unorthodox approaches to legalizing marijuana ever ...

Article by David George-Cosh, BNN Bloomberg Lawyers, retailers and cannabis producers scrambled to sign deals as time ticked down to the Friday deadline as winners of Ontario’s pot shop licence lottery formally applied to open one of the province’s 25 cannabis stores this April. “We’re in panic mode,” Frank Robinson, a partner with Cassels Brock & Blackwell – a firm representing clients looking to tie-up ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star As the Jan. 22 deadline to accept or decline cannabis shops looms, more than a third of the 414 eligible municipalities in the province have yet to decide. As of Friday afternoon, councils representing some 170 cities, towns, townships and regions across the province had not exercised their option to bar brick-and-mortar pot shops ...

Article by Piper Courtenay, Georgia Straight On Tuesday (January 16), the federal government’s point man on cannabis tweeted something that raised a few eyebrows across the internet. The former undercover narcotics officer and Toronto police chief took to social media to share a new Health Canada report, writing: “The Federally regulated supply inventories are showing impressive growth since implementation and clearly supply ...