Article by Doug Schmidt, Windsor Star Not even two weeks after being raided by the Windsor police drug squad for allegedly selling cannabis illegally, the Compassion House was packing them in again this week, only now the pot was being given away. Volunteers were busy rolling joints and passing them along to anyone with food or clothing donations for local ...

Article by David George-Cosh, BNN Bloomberg A number of chief executives in the cannabis industry seem to have one surprising thing in common: They don’t like to get high on their own supply. BNN Bloomberg conducted a survey of more than two dozen CEOs running U.S. and Canadian cannabis firms, ranging from some of Canada’s biggest pot companies to billion-dollar ...

Article by CityNews A licenced marijuana producer that recalled an entire strain of its weed after some Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) customers complained that it contained mould is now trying to ease fears after online reports that bugs were found in some of its buds. RedeCan told CityNews on Friday that it uses a tiny predatory mite called persimilis to prevent crop-destroying ...

Article by Jeremy Keefe, Global News Just over a month after recreational cannabis was legalized and the NSLC became the sole legal distributor in the province, illegal dispensaries remain in operation despite repeated warnings from police. Halifax Regional Police say they hand-delivered letters to dispensary owners advising them of the hefty fines they could receive for the sale and distribution of ...

Article by Alexandra Mazur, Global News Napanee OPP have charged a man for allegedly buying cannabis from an unlicensed store on Tyendinaga Territory. On Nov. 21, at 9 p.m. an Napanee OPP received a complaint about a driver on Marysville Road in Tyendinaga Township. When police stopped the vehicle, they say they noticed cannabis inside the vehicle within reach of the driver. ...

Article by Taryn Grant, StarMetro Halifax police raided an illegal cannabis dispensary in Bedford Wednesday morning and say that despite legalization of recreational pot, dispensary owners should “expect to have police attention coming their way.” Police officers acted on a search warrant at GreenTree Clinic on the Bedford Hwy. just after 11 a.m. on Nov. 21, according to a news ...

Article by Katherine DeClerq, CTV News A cannabis producer in Ontario has issued a voluntary recall of one of its products after at least five complaints were filed about marijuana purchased through the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) containing mould. An OCS customer, who wished to remain anonymous, told CTV News Toronto that she checked the products she had been using ...

Article by CBC News A 34-year-old London, Ont., woman says she was “pretty upset” this week after she found mould in a nugget of recreational cannabis ordered from the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS). The woman, whose name has been withheld because she fears an impact on future job prospects, told CBC she’d already smoked some of the contaminated batch by the time she ...

Article by Kevin Mainmann and Brennan Doherty, StarMetro Alberta is suspending applications for new weed stores, and offering refunds to hopeful business owners, as product shortages are expected to drag out for at least several months. The Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLC) announced Wednesday it has only received 20 per cent of the cannabis it ordered from licensed ...

Article by Dave Dawson, Orillia Matters Orillia city councillors have a big decision to make in January. Orillia, like all Ontario municipalities, must decide by Jan. 22 if it wants to get into the pot business. Bill 36 legalized the sale of recreational cannabis. Since Oct. 17, Ontarians have had the ability to purchase pot through the Ontario Cannabis Store’s website. ...