Article by Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily The executive turntable at the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) is spinning again, with the provincial wholesale monopoly and online retailer about to get its sixth president in three years. The rapid executive turnover has some industry watchers concerned the organization might be lacking executive continuity. Thomas Haig, who was appointed interim president in ...

Article by Jon Hopkins, Proactive Investors Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp. (CSE:CANN) (OTCQX:HERTF) announced that Health Canada has granted the company the first-ever license to export cannabis products from Canada to Brazil. In December 2020, Heritage entered into an arrangement with CannaBR Exports Corp., a Brazilian focused pharmaceutical CBD product importation and distribution company, for the distribution and bulk sale of formulated CBD products ...

Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network Earlier, we discussed unknown compounds found in cannabis oil after other processes such as distillation and even decarboxylation. Don’t worry though, those unwanted side reactions can be limited with simple techniques. Let’s #AskAnExpert how THCa and CBDa change after they are distilled and what happens to their acid groups after an acidic cannabinoid is decarboxylated. What are distillation and ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Marijuana Business Daily Despite challenges such as rapid regulatory change, shifting public-health demands and economic uncertainty, cannabis retailers say the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic has driven beneficial changes to their business models and motivated regulators to permit new ways of serving customers. Those new services range from online ordering to home delivery and curbside ...

Article by CBC News Two men have been arrested after police found 500 cannabis plants and over 80 kilograms of dried cannabis on a southern Manitoba property last week, RCMP say. RCMP officers from Steinbach, the Steinbach general investigative section and the East District crime reduction enforcement support team raided a home in the rural municipality of Taché on March 11, after ...

Article by Julia Veintrop, Cannabis Life Network It’s quite appropriate that I am writing this article, in fact, it’s sort of ironic and funny. In the past, I’ve had friends designate a ‘Julia’ rig and keep it aside for when I come to visit. Up until a year or two ago, I had a bit of a reputation for chazzing ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op Canada legalized recreational cannabis more than two years ago, but the passage of time has not translated into the anticipated lower use among young people, notes an evaluation of study data involving 100,000-plus youths. “High prevalence of youth cannabis use in this sample remains a concern,” notes the pre-proof study recently published online in Preventive Medicine Reports, ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op The Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ont. and Buffalo, N.Y. was once again the location for a cannabis seizure topping US$1.3 million ($1.6 million). Despite the load being manifested as carrying “empty plastic bottle,” officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Peace Bridge Cargo Facility opted for a closer look. And ...

Article by Rashika Srivastava, Cannabis Life Network Can you not stop pulling out your hair (trichotillomania)? Do you know someone who does that? This Body Focussed Repetitive Behavior(BFRB) can be reduced by a synthetic THC. Hair pulling aka trichotillomania Trichotillomania is an irresistible urge to pull out hair from one’s own scalp, eyebrows, or other areas of the body. It comes ...

Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network Sometimes depression can hurt, literally. Interestingly, this has a lot to do with our Endocannabinoid Systems (ECS)—a network that consists of a few receptors and two neurotransmitters. Pain and emotions are tied together through these messengers. And, it is through the ECS that magic mushrooms and cannabis can often, although counterintuitively, have therapeutic effects. (1) How ...