Article by Robert Benzie, The Toronto Star The province’s new marijuana monopoly will be known as the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation. Attorney General Yasir Naqvi launched the OCRC — a subsidiary of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario — in sweeping legislation Wednesday at Queen’s Park that takes effect when Ottawa legalizes recreational weed next July 1. “That is the ...

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Article by Jodie Emery, Ottawa Citizen It was the worst possible provincial legalization plan, but it just became official. The Liberal government of Ontario announced a state monopoly on the sale of legal non-medical cannabis, combined with a massive crackdown on the existing cannabis industry. Legalization wasn’t supposed to be like this. Canadians increasingly supported ending cannabis criminalization after watching ...

Article by Manisha Krishnan, Vice News Selena Holder-Zirbser wasn’t even supposed to be working on the day she got arrested. Holder-Zirbser, 21, had picked up a shift at the Green Tree dispensary on Ottawa’s Rideau Street, where she’d recently become a keyholder. It was a foggy Friday morning last November, and she immediately had a lineup of customers to purchase dried bud, ...

Article by Alan Carter, Global News Standing in Ontario’s legislative chamber, the province’s Attorney General made history this month with the introduction of legislation to legalize recreational marijuana. He did so with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for a prostate exam. Speaking to reporters afterward, Yasir Naqvi, was at great pains to explain the primary goal of the “Cannabis, Smoke-Free Ontario and Road Safety ...

Article by Samantha Craggs, CBC News Hamilton will get one of the first government-run stand-alone cannabis stores in July 2018. The city is one of 14 municipalities chosen for the first wave of LCBO-run stores. The agency and the Ministry of Finance announced the list Friday morning. The next closest locations are Kitchener and Mississauga. The province plans to set up about ...

Article by Rachel Browne, Vice News Ontario tabled its law on cannabis legalization this week that would ban users from consuming the drug outside of “private residences,” a move slammed by critics as favouring “the elite” since homeless people, and many renters and condo residents could effectively be prohibited from consuming legal weed. The ban doesn’t make sense, drug policy experts ...

By CBC News Ontario’s Attorney General Yassir Naqvi joins Matt Galloway to talk about the new legislation for legal cannabis, as well as changes to the province’s police services act. See source here

Article by Manisha Krishnan, Vice News Ontario just tabled its bill for regulating and selling weed in the province and it makes it impossible to legally consume recreational weed outside of a private home. Despite being widely panned, the province is sticking to the plan it unveiled in September, with 40 cannabis retail stores to open next summer, followed by 80 ...

Article by National Post Ontario’s proposed marijuana legislation will, if passed, establish regulations to govern the sale of recreational pot in the province. Here are some highlights of the new bill: –Sets the legal age to use, buy or cultivate marijuana at 19. –Bans cannabis use in public places, workplaces and vehicles. –Creates a provincial retailer, a subsidiary of the ...