Article by Julia Veintrop, Cannabis Life Network Smoking is bad for you… except sometimes. Smoking a joint can be better for your health than not smoking anything at all; It can be even better for your body than ingesting cannabis in a different way…It just depends on the reason. One day, your body may just need you to turn on ...

Toronto is an amazing city for cannabis with so many diverse events going on. Here is a list of the events going on this upcoming week and weekend: Tuesday May 8, 2018: TERRIFIC TUESDAY GANJA YOGA BASIC with Jose When: 7:30pm-9:30pm Where: The House of Yoga (714 Bloor St W, Toronto) Price: $30/class, 4 classes for $100 Wednesday May 9, 2018: Free Grow Class When: 6:00pm-8:00pm Where: ...

Article by Scott Blacklock, Lift News After the Liberal government announced its plan to legalize marijuana, Britney Guerra wanted to get ahead of the action. But before she opened several illegal cannabis dispensaries in Hamilton, Ont. she told the Steeltown authorities all about it. “Knowing that we were going to go full recreational, I had emailed the city multiple times ...

Article by Mike Okada, Cannabis Life Network Health Canada is requiring warning labels and patient information handouts for opioids, marking a first for these kinds of medicine, which puts the pharmaceutical painkillers in a similar league as tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. In addition, pharmaceutical companies will have to develop mandatory opioid risk management plans as well. This development is a ...

Article by Chris Bennett, Cannabis Culture Two major archeological announcements were made in April 2018 regarding the fascinating and widespread history of Cannabis in the ancient world. Archeological evidence for fibre cannabis goes back tens of thousands of years, and evidence of its use as a ritual fumigant dates back more than 5,000 years ago. Two new archeological studies have been released ...

Article by Alexander Quon, Global News Nova Scotians like their cannabis more than any other region in the country, according to data from Statistics Canada released Monday. Provinces and territories across the country consumed vastly different amounts of cannabis said the federal agency, indicating that its data points to 4.9 million Canadians purchasing the drug for medicinal and non-medicinal use. The data is set ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen The Ontario government has contributed $300,000 to help a Toronto company work with Loyalist College in Belleville to develop what it says will be the world’s first beer brewed from cannabis. The joint project will create a beer that is “highly intoxicating” but safer and healthier than alcohol, says Province Brands of Canada. The company ...

Article by Michael J. Armstrong, The Conversation The legalization of cannabis in Canada is on the horizon. Canadian provinces are taking different approaches to how it will be sold to the public. The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC) grabbed attention in April for identifying its first store locations. But it was the accompanying call for product suppliers that caught my eye as a business professor. It ...

Article by Gideon Bentata, Skunk Magazine AS WE ALL KNOW, the medicinal and recreational cannabis industry is one that is fast developing across the whole world, with Canada aiming for recreational legalization later in 2018. Anyone doing a little bit of research will see that while cannabis access has improved over the last decade in Canada through the Government medical ...

Article by Dr. Frank, Cannabis Culture There’s been a lot of talk in the media about cannabis “overdoses” at public events like 420. This language, particularly as we face a continent wide opioid crisis, is entirely irresponsible. An overdose, is serious and tragic. People die from overdoses. And while, “greening out” can be a very unpleasant consequence of over-consumption, nobody ...