Article by David Olive, Toronto Star Roughly one year into Canada’s experiment as the first industrialized country to legalize marijuana, the project gives the appearance of being a bust. Appearances are deceiving in this case, as we’ll see in a moment. But the first 13 months of Canadian pot legalization have been characterized by product shortages, a woefully insufficient number ...

Article by Nick Eagland, Vancouver Sun Hundreds of recreational cannabis edibles, extracts and topicals will hit B.C. shelves soon but it’s unclear whether that will be in time to bring Christmas cheer. Regulations to make those products legal came into effect on Oct. 17, 2019, one year after the federal legalization of dried cannabis, oil and seeds. But producers weren’t ...

Article by Mike Smyth, The Province Marijuana may be legal across Canada now, but B.C.’s newly formed pot police are still busy raiding illegal cannabis stores. Officially known as the Community Safety Unit, the provincial pot squad is responsible for shutting down unlicensed marijuana merchants. The year-old special police force is now ramping up its enforcement activities, swooping down on ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen A proposed cannabis store on Wellington Street West has switched names and now plans to open under the Tokyo Smoke brand. Tokyo Smoke, owned by Canopy Growth in Smiths Falls, is a fast-growing retail chain across Canada. The change in plans for the store at 1000 Wellington St. W. in Hintonburg is typical of ...

Article by CBC News A British Columbia entrepreneur’s budding business has him cleaning out dirty bongs and pipes for cannabis smokers. Kamloops resident Jordan Robinson launched The Bongdromat in mid-October after he got the idea while working at a local smoke shop. His business model is simple — customers bring in their stained and clogged devices and Robinson cleans them so ...

Article by Travis Cesarone, Cannabis Life Network We reported that there have been brands of fake shatter floating around the black market. No one yet knows the identity of the impurity hiding in some cannabis extracts. It only unveils itself after being soaked in alcohol. Pine resin is alcohol-soluble meaning something else has been found, but there are plenty of water-soluble stabilizers that could explain ...

Article by Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily Another Canadian province established hurdles for the legal sale of marijuana vape products weeks ahead of their rollout across the country. Newfoundland and Labrador joined Quebec this week in banning the products, while British Columbia earlier said it’s raising its sales tax on legal oil and dried flower vapes to 20%. All three provinces cited severe lung ...

Article by Hadeel Ibrahim, CBC News A former employee of the cannabis lifestyle magazine Civilized says his layoff earlier this year was devastating, but it’s indicative of the industry’s growing pains. Saint John-based Civilized Worldwide Inc. halted all operations and let everyone go, nine employees in Saint John and seven in its Los Angeles office. That’s all ahead of being acquired ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Leafly News The province of Ontario is officially going crazy for Original Stash. That’s the new 28-gram dried flower product from Hexo that was released on the OCS’s website last week in time for Black Friday. Suffice it to say, the old school 28-gram—or one ounce—package size has been a hit. The process of selling inexpensive cannabis in bulk ...

Article by Manisha Krishnan, Vice News Canada’s federal police want people to know that black market weed is bad, so they launched a handy little campaign warning of the perils of illicit dispensaries. The only problem is, most of the telltale signs they listed sound pretty great. In a tweet, the RCMP cautioned, “This holiday season, know the signs of ...