Article by Legal Reader If you’re looking for ways to reduce the potential damage to your lungs while enjoying cannabis, here are five healthier substitutions for the standard joint hit or bong rip you may want to consider. Dispensaries sitting cozy on every third street corner, billboards greeting passers-by, newer, sleeker pot products lining store walls, and a mass of ...

Article by Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily One of Canada’s largest banks trimmed almost a billion dollars off its 2020 forecast for adult-use cannabis sales, mostly because of issues arising from a slow rollout of regulated stores in key provincial markets as well as locations shuttered because of the COVID-19 pandemic. CIBC Capital Markets, the investment banking subsidiary of the Canadian ...

Article by Shoreline Beacon Eight people – seven from Saugeen Shores – were charged April 24 after a joint police investigation into sale and delivery of illicit cannabis. Saugeen Shores Police Service (SSPS) said following a February 2020 search warrant, a joint force began investigating illicit cannabis in Saugeen Shores and surrounding areas. SSPS, along with Owen Sound and Hanover ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press A Southwestern Ontario cannabis company is putting dozens of workers on paid leave and slashing management pay as it deals with fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. WeedMD, a licensed producer of medical and recreational marijuana, has put 12 per cent of its staff on temporary paid leave and cut compensation for executives and ...

Article by Hilary Black, chief advocacy officer, Canopy Growth via Growth Op I’ve been fighting for medical cannabis patients for 25 years. From riding my bike around Vancouver with a pager and a canvas backpack delivering cannabis to patients during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the mid-90s, to opening the country’s first medical cannabis organization, I became Canopy Growth’s first chief advocacy officer ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op A review involving 96 people in New Zealand, half of them controls and the other half regular cannabis users, found that smoking weed likely causes less alteration to human DNA than smoking tobacco. Researchers looked at what effect heavy cannabis use — with and without tobacco — had on the DNA of participants, note study ...

Article by Riya Vashiraphiphob, Cannabis Life Network A scope into Canada’s response to the Cannabis industry during Covid-19 by province reveals the industry’s resilience in the face of these trying times. The cannabis industry is among the high-growth sector and a significant contributor to the Canadian economy. The country has gained over 400 brick-and-mortar stores since the legalization of weed in late 2018. Initially, cannabis industry not factored into the ...

Article by Mira Miller, BlogTo Jason Krulicki never imagined he’d be opening a legal cannabis store in Toronto mid-pandemic, but circumstances beyond his control have forced him to get a business up and running during a particularly inconvenient time. Krulicki is a partner at One Plant, a brand new cannabis store in Kensington Market located in the old Zimmerman’s Fairland grocery store. The ...

Article by Cannabis Life Network Lift & Co. Corp. (TSXV:LIFT) (OTCQB:LFCOF) (“Lift & Co.” or the “Company”) announced today its new strategic plan focused on streamlined operations and significant cost reductions in response to the depressed economic conditions in Canada and the U.S. due to COVID-19 pandemic. Following Lift & Co.’s well-received announcement on April 7, 2020 of its strategic partnership with leading global event ...

Article by Peter Smith, Daily Hive With most of Canada declaring a state of emergency, provincial governments are being forced to pick and choose which industries to bestow the esteemed title of essential services. A medal that cannabis, after spending over a century as an illegal substance in the country, is wearing throughout much of the policy response to the ...