Article by Solomon Israel, The Leaf News The Quebec government’s plan to raise the legal age for using cannabis to 21 from 18 is drawing the ire of some public-health experts, who say the move will backfire. The legislation introduced Wednesday morning is just the second bill from the new Coalition Avenir Québec government, which decimated the Liberals in the province’s October general election. Raising the age ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News One surprise, as Canadians checked out brand new cannabis websites on Oct. 17, was a new and bewildering terminology. Newfoundland shoppers were confronted with a drop-down menu offering a choice of 36 different “terpenes”: ‘Trans-Ocimene,’ ‘Linalool,’ ‘Isopulegol.’ Terpenes, the site explained, “are aromatic oils that colour cannabis varieties with distinctive flavors like citrus, berry, mint, and pine.” ...

Article by Global News Shoppers Drug Mart has been granted a licence to sell medical marijuana online. Health Canada‘s list of authorized cannabis sellers and producers has been updated to reflect that the pharmacy can sell dried and fresh cannabis, as well as plants, seeds and oil. A website has been set up by the company, which says that patients “with ...

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 Joshua Ostroff, Vice News Eighty years ago, the police chief on the Caughnawaga reserve across the St. Lawrence river from Montreal spent weeks supervising the picking, carting, and burning of 3,500 pounds of pot under order of the Department of Indian Affairs. “The leaves and seeds of the marijuana plant contain a drug police fear more than any other narcotic,” ...

Article by Jean Lepine, Toronto Sun With new municipal councils being sworn in across Ontario this week, the debate on whether or not to opt-in to cannabis retail has moved from the philosophical to the real. Some councils have launched constituent consultations and online surveys to support eventual Council deliberation and decision. Municipal councils have until Jan. 22, 2019 to ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press Canada’s first crop of commercially grown outdoor cannabis could sprout from the ground of a former organic farm in Southwestern Ontario this year. Marijuana producer 48North has applied for an outdoor cultivation licence — the only cannabis company to do since the government approved outdoor growing in the summer — to plant marijuana on ...

Article by City News Canadian cannabis producer Cronos Group says it will receive a $2.4 billion equity investment from Altria Group, one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world. The maker of Marlboro cigarettes would acquire a 45 per cent ownership stake in Cronos under the initial investment. Altria can also invest up to a further $1.4 billion to ...

Article by Ken Hanly, Digital Journal Cannabis Compliance Inc. (CCI) of Toronto in the Canadian province of Ontario has formed a partnership with the University of Guelph to offer workshops on cannabis to both industry enthusiasts and professionals,. They will begin in March of 2019. The courses offer expertise on licencing applications that will adhere to the recent Cannabis Act ...

Article by Chris Herhalt, CP24 Two Oshawa grade school students had to be treated at hospital Wednesday after one of them snuck medicinal cannabis cookies from a parent and ate them, Durham Regional Police say. Ambulances were sent to Hillsdale Public School on Oshawa Boulevard North on Wednesday after two students, in Grade 7 or 8, fell ill. Police say ...