Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op A team of researchers from McMaster University and the University of Waterloo suggest a 3D-printed “lung simulator” they’ve developed can replicate what happens in the lungs when smoking weed, information that could prove useful when developing health policy around recreational and medicinal cannabis. Using commercially available design software and a 3D printer, researchers developed ...
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Former Large-Scale Ladner Cannabis Greenhouse Sold at Big Loss
Article by Sandor Gyarmati, Delta Optimist A huge greenhouse in East Ladner, which for a time, was to become one of the world’s largest cannabis grow operations, has been sold. Canopy Growth confirmed in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the company sold its vacant production facilities in Aldergrove and Delta in December 2020 and ...
Read More »640 Plants Seized at Largest Grow-Op in Edmonton Since Legalization of Recreational Cannabis
Article by Phil Heidenreich, Global News The Edmonton Police Service announced details of a drug bust on Monday that it described as the largest of its kind since recreational cannabis was legalized over two years ago. According to police, officers were called to respond to a dispute between a landlord and tenant and came across what they suspected was “an ...
Read More »Police Charge Driver of Unlicensed Muskoka Cannabis Delivery Service
Article by Chelsea Papineau, CTV News Despite becoming legal in Canada in 2018, unlicensed pot businesses are still getting charged as the government tries to snuff out the black market. Ontario Provincial Police began an investigation earlier this month into a mobile cannabis delivery service doing business in the Muskoka region. After officers saw a delivery driver make several stops ...
Read More »Ontario Man Charged After Three-Year-Old Eats Cannabis Edibles
Article by Ted Raymond, CTV News Ontario Provincial Police have charged a 38-year-old man after a small child became dangerously ill from eating cannabis edibles. Officers were called to a home in Quinte West, northwest of Belleville, at around 6:30 p.m. Friday on reports a three-year-old had eaten “a high quantity of cannabis edibles,” police said in a news release. ...
Read More »Profits Keep Rolling in as Cannabis NB Awaits Final Decision on its Fate
Article by Marie Sutherland, CBC News Cannabis NB hasn’t exactly been sitting idly by while it awaits a decision on its fate. The Crown corporation, which has been waiting for more than a year to hear whether its operations will be privatized, said Monday it has pulled in more than $6 million in sales in less than a month and is on ...
Read More »Genetic Editing Offers Cannabis and Hemp Companies a Way to Improve Plant Strains
Article by Andrew Long, Marijuana Business Daily The development of new genetic-editing technology offers cannabis companies a cost-effective way to make specific changes to marijuana and hemp plants – such as more disease resistance – without creating a genetically modified organism (GMO). The technology, known as Crispr-Cas9, will allow the cannabis industry to build new, improved plants that promise to ...
Read More »Green Organic Dutchman Weighs Sale of Cannabis Greenhouse in Quebec
Article by Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily The Green Organic Dutchman is considering the sale of its mammoth cannabis greenhouse in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, only about two months after the Mississauga, Ontario-based licensed producer increased its stake in the property to 100%. “Multiple bids are being considered, and the transaction could result in a complete or partial sale of the site,” the company ...
Read More »Mobile Cannabis Delivery Service Driver Arrested
Article by Orillia Matters In February 2021 the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) began an investigation into mobile cannabis delivery service operating throughout the Muskoka Region. On Feb. 19, 2021, the service was observed making a number of stops from Gravenhurst to Huntsville. The Muskoka CSCU arrested the delivery driver, and a search yielded ...
Read More »Ask A Budtender: ‘What Type of Cannabis Products Are People Buying During Lockdown?’
Article by Growth Op Alex Clarke has been the General Manager of Relm, an Ontario-based cannabis store, since December last year. A licensed educator for the last seven years, Clarke is also a medical cannabis grower and processor for his own medicine. “Being a cannabis patient I have learned so much about the plant. My background in education has made ...
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