Written by Toronto Toker for Dankr.ca. Sea of Green Dispensary Overview: Sea of Green Dispensary is the newest recreational/18+ dispensary to open up in the heart of Toronto. This dispensary is run by the same individual who took over the Church Cannabis Culture as Village Cannabis Dispensary, and was later forced to close shop by the previous landlord. Sea of Green ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Ottawa police cracked down on the city’s illegal marijuana shops last week, raiding three of them. All three establishments restocked their shelves and opened again, demonstrating how difficult it has become to control the growth of dispensaries. There are at least 19 shops in Ottawa, more than when police began raiding them almost a year ...

Article by Lift News Toronto Police announced today that on Thursday, August 24, 2017, at 6 a.m., officers executed search warrants for a ‘drug lab’ and seized large sums of cannabis, edibles and cannabis products like shatter. Police say they seized 83.5 kg of marijuana, with what they say is a street value of $1 million, 26.3 kg of edible ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News The city of Vancouver has issued their 11th dispensary business license under the city’s Medical Marijuana Related Use (MMRU) licensing regime. Another 40 businesses are at the second of the city’s three-stage licensing process, with another two at stage one. The previous business license issued was in late May to Eggs Canna at 208 E 16th Ave. No one at Karuna Health ...

Article by Jamie Shaw, Lift News Nova Scotia is Canada’s second-smallest province, so perhaps it isn’t surprising that it tends to slip under the media radar. While Vancouver makes headlines for regulating dispensaries, and Toronto makes them for raiding dispensaries, little attention has been paid to Nova Scotia’s capital: Halifax. For a long time, Halifax was served by a single dispensary, ...

Article by Rafferty Baker, CBC News After more than a year and 53 injunctions filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the City of Vancouver finally has a hearing date set for one case against an unlicensed marijuana dispensary. But the injunction filed against Karuna Health Foundation — which will serve as the court’s ‘test case’ — still won’t be heard for more than ...

Article by Niagara Regional Police Service UPDATE: During the month of July, 2017 members of the Niagara Regional Police – Guns, Gangs and Grows Unit began a second drug related investigation into the sale of marihuana and marihuana related products from the Niagara Cannabis Club located at 108 Hartzel Road, St.Catharines. This location was the subject to a previous search ...

Article by Gage Peake, Leafly A new peer-reviewed study has found that age restrictions in legal cannabis states are effectively keeping cannabis out of the hands of children and minors. Newly published data in the current issue of the Journal of Studies of Alcohol and Drugs found that “compliance with laws restricting marijuana sales to individuals age 21 years or older with ...

Article by Andrea Klassen, Kamloops This Week A marijuana dispensary that drew the ire of residents living above its Aberdeen store front is no more — and Kamloops RCMP say other pot shops in the city should prepare for a period of apparent tolerance to come to an end. A note affixed to the front door of Canna Clinic on Hillside Drive says ...

Article by Jennifer Lee, CBC News As the federal government’s deadline for legalizing marijuana approaches, dozens of Calgarians are jockeying to cash in on the ensuing business opportunities. According to the City of Calgary there are currently two businesses with development permits to operate as medical marijuana counselling services and six more applications have been submitted over the last few months. ...