Article by Alexa Huffman, CHEK News Comox Valley RCMP conducted a search warrant last Thursday at a marijuana dispensary on 4th Street, eight days after police shut down the shop the first time. Leaf Compassion, which is located in the 300 block of 4th Street, was first shut down on Oct. 5. Police said the store illegally reopened its doors, contrary to municipal ...

Video by Dopechef Media Saturday October 7th 2017 STOP THE ONTARIO POT MONOPOLY protesting the Ontario Government’s terrible plan of creating a Cannabis retail monopoly. Recorded at Queens Park in front of the Ontario Legislative Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Protest signs include the ‘CCBO Monopoly will fail’ and ‘No choice, no freedom.’ ‘LP Weed Safe? 10 Pesticides allowed on flowering ...

Article by Rebecca Lau, Global News Halifax Regional Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Dartmouth medical marijuana dispensary. According to police, they were called just after 7:30 p.m. to the Greenway Medical Dispensary at 327 Windmill Rd. on Thursday evening. Police say three men went into the business and threatened two employees with knives. The employees were not injured. ...

Article by Lift News The city of Toronto has succeeded in its quest for an injunction to force an unlicensed cannabis dispensary to shut down. The dispensary in question, Canna Clinic, had filed a similar injunction as well, asking the court to allow the store to remain open. Their injunction was rejected. Both of these injunction requests were made in ...

Article by Rick Zamperin, Global News Hamilton police have arrested one man and are looking for another in connection with a robbery at a medical marijuana dispensary. Investigators says three masked suspects entered the King Street East facility on Thanksgiving Monday and ordered a victim to the ground with what is believed to be a firearm. A quantity of marijuana, and some of ...

Article by Eurekalert UBC researchers are cautioning policy makers not to alter a cannabis distribution system that — while not legal yet — works well. Associate professor Zach Walsh, who teaches psychology at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and PhD candidate Rielle Capler, say store-front dispensaries–often under fire by law enforcement and city governments–are a tried and true method of selling cannabis. ...

Article by Samantha Craggs, CBC News Hamilton city council has put off trying to assemble a meeting with the city’s numerous marijuana dispensaries. For now. Councillor was due to debate Wednesday night whether to try to call the owners of Hamilton’s more than 15 illegal marijuana dispensaries together. Then Jason Farr, Ward 2 councillor, tabled it. The goal, said Farr, is ...

Article by Mike Okada, Cannabis Life Network On Nov. 4th, 2016, Ottawa Police raided 6 dispensaries and arrested 9 frontline employees (also known as budtenders). All 9 budtenders have been charged and to make matters even worse, their employers have abandoned them- that means no lawyer, no legal fees, nothing. The cannabis community is famous for coming together and helping ...

Article by Mike Okada, Cannabis Life Network Clint Younge, the CEO of MMJ Canada, talked to us about how Ontario’s LCBO retail model for recreational cannabis threatens to put all of Ontario’s existing dispensaries out of business, what he hopes to accomplish by speaking to Hamilton city council, and how we can join the fight for fair and common sense cannabis ...

Article by Stephen Spencer Davis, Toronto Life Last month, the Ontario government released its proposed framework for distributing marijuana in Ontario, once marijuana is legalized. Rather than legitimize illegal private storefront dispensaries, which have proliferated in Toronto over the past two years, Queen’s Park has decided to create a government-run pot retail chain. The plan calls for the LCBO to be in ...