Article by David Rider, Toronto Star A city committee has endorsed the province’s highly regulated approach to marijuana legislation, despite pleas from dispensary operators and pot users. The licensing committee voted 4-1 Monday in favour of city staff recommendations endorsing Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to sell marijuana only in government run, LCBO-type shops across Ontario after federal legalization takes effect next year. ...

Article by Sam Riches, Leafly On the morning of Thursday, May 26, 2016, Trevor Harris* was sitting in a Toronto dispensary cutting cannabis into small amounts, grams and eighths, preparing it for sale. It had been a slow morning for the budtender. He had just finished helping a customer choose a topical product, a balm to treat their rheumatoid arthritis, ...

Article by Ryan Goldsman, The Motley Fool This week, the Ontario government announced plans to have an offshoot of the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) sell marijuana to the public (once it becomes legal). Although the announcement provides a significant amount of clarity for consumers, the truth is that this is actually terrible news for investors. Given that the ...

Review by Toronto Toker for Dankr.ca. Yesterday (Monday) was the second successful protest organized by two grass roots activists: Wayne & Tony. These individuals, just like the majority of us in the cannabis industry, are appalled by the suggested legalization framework proposed by the Ontario Government. These individuals took action and started organizing protests, with the first one being the ...

Article by Bruce Ryan, High! Canada A massive wave is poised to wash over the cannabis landscape a few short months from now. The Perfect Storm. Billions are at stake, the existing industry players are digging in and the capital investors are circling like sharks. Chatting with one investor last week was quite fascinating. He sees only the top, public layer ...

Article by Luke Scarmazzo, Cannabis Now Some of you may be familiar with my story, for those of you who aren’t, I am serving 22 years in federal prison for running a state-compliant marijuana dispensary. In the federal system, with good behavior, I must serve 19 years of it. Although we have made significant progress with state-level marijuana law reform, there’s ...

Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift News In November of 2016, Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr announced a plan to drastically reduce coverage for cannabis prescribed to veterans for physical and psychological trauma received in the line of duty. The rapid timeline to implement the plan resulted in hundreds of Canadian veterans having their coverage cut by as much as two thirds. ...

Article by High! Canada High! Canada Magazine was privy recently to a Pharaoh’s treasure chest and sampled some of Rasta Pharoah’s best products. This month we had the opportunity to sample some new products that are just finishing up their development and testing – First we tried out Rasta Pharoah’s new pain cream and found it to be extremely effective on ...

Article by The Fresh Toast Nearly 11.5 million Canadians, or 39 percent of adult-age Canadians have admitted they will be cannabis consumers if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s legalization plans for 2018 come to bloom, and as a country, 57 percent of Canadians are supportive of the Prime Minister’s plan for changing the cannabis laws. This is according to a newly ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News It would make for a seriously awkward job interview. Ontario plans to have 150 publicly owned marijuana stores open across the province by 2020. They’ll be staffed by people with what provincial employees’ union chief Warren ‘Smokey’ Thomas calls “good union jobs.” (Hourly wages for Ontario liquor store workers top out at over $27 an hour.) And, as chance ...