Article by Gord Howard, The St. Catharines Standard Marijuana seizures at the U.S. border have increased dramatically since cannabis was legalized for sale in Canada. Since October when online sales started, the number of seizures has more than doubled at border points entering New York state over the same period last year. At the same time, the amount confiscated is ...

Article by Toronto Star The vice-president of business development at Shoppers Drug Mart says blockchain technology can provide a comfort level for doctors and pharmacists about the quality of medical cannabis. Ken Weisbrod says his company has signed a deal with TruTrace Technologies for a pilot program to provide the software to track medical cannabis from seed to final product. ...

Article by Ashley Keenan, Growth Op A key theme emerged as part of panel discussions at the recent Lift & Co.’s Expo Industry Day and Expo Consumer Weekend: Even in a post-legalization Canada, being able to access and consume cannabis without barriers continues to be a challenge. Whether panel members were addressing issues such as attracting top talent or if ...

Article by CBC News Wilfrid Laurier University is now among a number of post-secondary institutions that has banned smoking on its campuses. As of July 1, the university will ban cigarette and cannabis use on all of its campuses, as well as e-cigarettes and vapes. The policy to ban all forms of smoking was approved by the university’s Board of Governors on June ...

Article by Kathleen Harris, CBC News Canadians should expect a small initial supply of cannabis edibles when they become legal in mid-December, and the limited range of products won’t include goodies that might appeal to kids, government officials say. Health Canada released new regulations on cannabis edibles, beverages, topicals and extracts today — products that will be on the legal market as early ...

Article by Spiro Papuckoski, Toronto Sun Canadians could be opening a new gift under their Christmas trees this year that could literally give them a high. The market for cannabis-infused products is expanding with the addition of edibles, drinks, extracts and topicals, which are tentatively set to be available at the Ontario Cannabis Store and licensed retailers no earlier than ...

Article by Caleb McMillan, Cannabis Life Network If Canadians felt strongly enough about the cannabis trade, legalization wouldn’t look as it currently does- like a large cannabis bud without a trace of trichomes. There’s big business staking its claim with an army of lobbyists and fake capital supplied by the banks, while pioneers of Canada’s cannabis industry, many of them in British Columbia, ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News Last October, we started putting cannabis in a category kind of, sort of similar to alcohol. But through a series of cultural and legal accidents — or just lawmakers of different generations making decisions in different decades — we treat them differently in any number of ways. Nearly always, they involve being stricter about ...

Article by CityNews More than two months after the deadline set by the provincial government, the fifth and final legal marijuana store is set to open in Toronto today. Canna Cabana, which is owned by Alberta-based High Tide Incorporated, is set to open its doors on Yonge Street near College. It’s expected to be the highest profile of the 17 ...

Article by Brendan Bures, The Fresh Toast On Thursday night the Toronto Raptors won the NBA Finals for the first time in team history. Since 1993, no professional Canadian team in the four major sports—NBA, MLB, NHL, or the NFL—had won a championship until the Raptors victory this season. Suffice to say, Canadians had something to celebrate. And boy did ...