Article by Jessica Leeder, Globe and Mail People who have post-traumatic stress disorder but do not medicate with cannabis are far more likely to suffer from severe depression and have suicidal thoughts than those who use marijuana, new national research says. Based on cross-country data from Statistics Canada, the observational study by researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Substance ...

Article by Peter Vogel, Entrepreneur The numbers don’t add up. Women make up a majority of the U.S. population (51 percent). They earn almost 60 percent of undergraduate degrees and 60 percent of all master’s degrees. Women also earn 47 percent of all law degrees and 48 percent of all medical degrees. And yet, there are so few women at the ...

Article by Allan Benner, The St. Catharines Standard Darryll Godin has worked hard to make his Balsam Street home an oasis. He has owned his Welland home for more than 20 years, with a view unencumbered by backyard fences looking across acres of farm fields on the Pelham side of the municipal border. “This is a neighbourhood unlike any other,” Godin ...

Article by Calvin Hughes, Civilized New research out of the University College London shows that the cannabis-derived oil CBD may be a useful tool for people attempting to stop smoking cigarettes. The study shows that taking CBD acts to subvert a number of relapse triggers. While the study was small, the results are encouraging. Especially when combined with a previous study ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News At least on paper, sharing a joint with a 17-year-old can bring a sentence of up to 14 years after legalization. But an amendment passed Monday by a Senate committee, which could make its way into the final law, carves out two major exceptions in which adults can share marijuana with minors. The change will protect: Someone 18 ...

Article by Piper Courtenay, Straight Cannabis Canadians may flock south of the border to pillage outlet malls and stockpile cigarettes but, when it comes to pinching pennies, we have the weed. According to a report published by Wikileaf last week, an online database that tracks and compares North American dispensary prices, cannabis is 30 percent less expensive in the Great White North ...

Article by Caleb McMillan, Cannabis Life Network It’s 2018. Do we really need to follow outdated Soviet practices regarding our sanitation services? Our landfills, recycling centres, junkyards, transfer stations, and toxic waste sites? Why should BC Bud farmers continually have to discard their stems and other byproducts clandestinely, in black garbage bags, to landfills? Garbage doesn’t disappear into the aether. ...

Article by Mike Okada, Cannabis Life Network Drinkable cannabis is set to take off in Canada as beverage companies invest in developing innovative cannabis-infused beverages in order to be ready for 2019, when edible sales will be legalized. When it comes to these new cannabis drinks, there are far more options than simply adding cannabis to a drink. As Jason ...

Article by Dianna Benjamin, Wikileaf There are a lot of high hopes as we await Canadian legislation legalizing cannabis this summer. As everybody knows,  in the United States, structural biases favoring white men have resulted in the disproportionate exclusion of women and people of color from the highest positions in the cannabis industry (even if there is a higher percentage of ...

Article by Colin Bambury, High! Canada Social media is the current state of the Internet. The majority of Internet usage is through smartphones and more than half of the time spent on a mobile device is spent in a social media application. These are valuable places to market and brand because the platforms have the consumer’s undivided attention. Social media is crucial ...