Article by Taylor Blewett, Regina Leader-Post Health Canada recently unveiled a new regulatory regime that will impose extensive and mandatory pesticide testing requirements on all licensed producers (LPs) of cannabis. Come Jan. 2, LPs will have to send product samples to independent laboratories, where they will be screened for almost 100 active pesticide ingredients before they can be sold. It’s a marked ...

Article by Laura Kane, CTV News … Boissonneault and Gallagher now run a handful of small legal medical grow-ops in British Columbia and are among the “craft” producers who hope to use their skills in the fledgling recreational market by getting a new licence for microcultivation. But would-be applicants are discovering a major hurdle in their way: obtaining municipal approval and ...

Article by Mike O, Cannabis Life Network Canada legalized cannabis just under two months ago, but edibles still remain as illegal as ever- that is, until Oct. 17, 2019, which is when the Trudeau government plans to legalize cannabis edibles and concentrates. But MJ Biz Daily has reported some promising news, just in time for Christmas- we can expect to see the ...

Article by Alexandra Heck, Erin Advocate via SouthWestern Ontario It was a unanimous decision. Erin town council chose to opt out of hosting cannabis retail sites in the municipality, citing a lack of details from the province as a primary factor. “I’d rather someone else was the guinea pig,” said Coun. John Brennan, noting that the province can’t possibly reap the millions they ...

Article by CBC News Changes to Ontario’s smoking laws have forced a medical cannabis lounge in downtown Windsor to shut down. Higher Limits announced Thursday it will be closing for good by the end of the year. “[We] have been notified and warned by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit that both employees and customers are liable,” said owner Jon Liedtke in a ...

Article by City News The Quebec government tabled legislation this morning that would raise the legal age for consuming cannabis in the province to 21. Bill 2 would also prohibit cannabis consumption in all public places, including parks and streets. Increasing the legal age to 21 from 18 was one of the Coalition Avenir Quebec’s main campaign promises leading up to its Oct. ...

Article by The Leaf News Dear Herb: A recent article suggested that obtaining starting materials from licensed medical growers by gifting is legal, but is that really the case? Is legal medical cannabis a potential legal source of starting materials for recreational home growers? — Perplexed About Gifting Dear Perplexed: I’ve received this inquiry from a number of people in the past ...

Article by Jonathan Juha and Zoe Kessler, London Free Press If there were ever a sign that marijuana has come in from the cold, this surely is it, what’s believed to be Canada’s first curling “bongspiel.” A Southwestern Ontario club plans a tournament next month combining one of the country’s oldest winter pasttimes, curling, with what’s rapidly becoming a new lifestyle ...

Article by Peter Nolan-Smith, Daily Hive Ontario weed smokers are a patient lot. After sitting through the original run of much delayed post-legalization Ontario Cannabis Store deliveries — Grow’s office order in Toronto took 15 days —  October 17, 2017, came and went with much fanfare. But April 2019 is the deadline the Ford government has set for the introduction of ...

Article by Michelle Cadieux, MTL Blog It’s been a little over six weeks now since cannabis became legal in Canada. The first day of legalization was highly succesuful. In Quebec, for example, the SQDC proccessed 42,500 transactions in store and online in just a single day. As a result, legalization has made one thing abundantly clear:Canadians love weed. So much so that many legal cannabis vendors across ...