Article by Harrison Jordan, Leafly A number of Canadian cannabis purchasers—including an editor here at Leafly Canada—claim to have opened sealed containers of legally-purchased cannabis only to find that they were completely empty. An online search finds that this problem has apparently arisen a handful of times, with some individuals posting their disappointment on TheOCS subreddit on the popular link-sharing site Reddit. ...

Article by Reuters via Financial Post Canadian pot grower CannTrust Holdings on Thursday said that the sale of over half of its stock of cannabis and around a quarter of its plants had been suspended following the discovery of unlicensed cultivation at its facilities. Regulator Health Canada last month found unlicensed cultivation in five rooms at a CannTrust facility. Health ...

Article by Mark Rendell, Globe and Mail Canopy Growth Corp. is still three to five years away from profitability, the company acknowledged on Thursday, after releasing quarterly financial results showing a decline in revenue, stubbornly low gross margins and a massive net loss due to a one-time accounting change. . The results fell far short of analyst expectations, sending Canopy’s ...

Article by Sherina Harris, Toronto Star Police say they seized more than 2,000 cannabis plants from a residence in Grimsby after executing a search warrant there August 10. … Hui Bin Chen, 24, from St. Catharines, and Xin Chen, 24, from Markham, were arrested and charged with cultivating cannabis in a dwelling house other than their own, contrary to the ...

Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post CannTrust’s stock took another major hit on Monday after the embattled cannabis producer disclosed it had received a second non-compliance rating from Health Canada, this time in connection to its facility in Vaughan, Ont. The violations at the 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility included converting five rooms into storage areas that were used to hold cannabis ...

Article by Reuters via Financial Post Health Canada on Monday slapped a non-compliant rating on CannTrust Holdings Inc’s Vaughan, Ontario facility, about a month after the regulator found unlicensed pot growing at another operation in the province. U.S.-listed shares of the company, which accepted the health regulator’s findings, were down about 25 per cent at $2.39 before the opening bell. ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, Woodstock Sentinel-Review Cities and towns in Southwestern Ontario will soon find out whether they’ll be home to the any of the second wave of cannabis retail stores opening in the fall. Applicants vying for a shot at one of 42 marijuana retail licences had until Friday to submit an application to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission ...

Article by Nick Westoll and Travis Dhanraj, Global News As part of a road safety cannabis education campaign, the Ontario government has paid for quizzes to appear on BuzzFeed in an effort to “[capture] the attention of young drivers.” To date, two quizzes have been posted on the popular entertainment website. Each quiz indicates it’s a “paid post” and lists the brand publisher as the Government of Ontario, ...

Article by Peter Edwards, Toronto Star Organized criminals in the GTA are exploiting loopholes in Canada’s medical marijuana licensing laws to create massive grow-ops which finance widespread drug operations, York police said after charging 60 people and allegedly seizing more than $45-million in drugs. The arrests came out of two parallel York police investigations — dubbed Projects “Zen” and “Moon” ...

Article by Erik Tanner, Now Toronto Just as the cat came back the next day, so too have the four unlicensed CAFE (Cannabis and Fine Edibles) cannabis shops shut down by the city in recent weeks. The city has tried unsuccessfully multiple times, together with 70 provincial bylaw charges, to close the shops down permanently, issuing closure orders, installing giant concrete slabs ...