Article by Tyler Choi, Growth Op The Canadian government passed a law late on Wednesday that would allow its citizens with a criminal record for marijuana possession to be pardoned without any cost and expedite a process that previously could take up a decade. The new bill is aimed at shedding the “burden of stigma” and removing barriers for employment, ...

Article by Emily Mertz, Global News Since recreational cannabis became legal in Canada last October, the majority of marijuana-related charges the Edmonton Police Service have laid have been for improper transport. According to the provincial Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Act, “no person may transport cannabis in a vehicle unless the cannabis is contained in closed packaging that is out of ...

Article by Graeme Frisque, Brampton Guardian Clint Seukeran, owner of Brampton’s only legal cannabis retail store Ganjika House, said aside from some supply issues for higher-quality product, the first couple months of operations has gone smoothly. He also said the biggest lesson he’s learned since opening on April 1 is how many cannabis smokers there actually are in Canada’s ninth-largest ...

Article by Lisa Campbell, Now Toronto Edibles, beverages, extracts and topicals – oh my! Health Canada has finally released regulations guiding the production and sale of the next wave of cannabis products entering the legal market. Full details will be published in the Canadian Gazette June 26. What we know so far: • THC content in edibles products will be limited to 10 ...

Article by Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun Legal edible cannabis products coming to retail stores later this year may not be recognizable to consumers who have enjoyed brightly packaged high-potency products from the grey market. Ottawa’s approach to legalization is decidedly not the disco reggae dance party that legalization activists envisioned when cannabis prohibition ended last year, favouring a more subdued ...

Article by Randi Druzin, Leafly Next month, stakeholders in the cannabis and alcohol industries will gather at a conference centre in San Francisco to discuss the arrival of cannabis-infused beverages and its implications. In an article looking ahead to this first-ever Cannabis Drinks Expo, Forbes proclaimed that “the next frontier in cannabis is beverages.” No doubt about it, the future of cannabis-infused beverages ...

Article by CTV News A new study suggests pregnant women who use cannabis are at greater risk of delivering their baby early, but researchers say more work is needed to establish a direct link between cannabis and preterm births. The work comes from researchers at the Ottawa Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, the provincial birth registry BORN Ontario ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op Cannabis is legal in Canada, but some employers don’t seem to have received the memo. Transport Canada has ordered flight crews to abstain from cannabis consumption for 28 days before work. Now, like Metrolinx headquartered in Toronto, one Alberta bus company has banned its employees from consuming the legal drug at all – even when they are on a vacation. ...

Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post Canada will embark on its second wave of cannabis legalization — which will see edibles, concentrates and topicals become available for recreational consumption to the public — on October 17, 2019, almost a year after the government first legalized cannabis dried flower and oils. But government officials expect that only a limited selection of ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News There’s nothing quite like a nice, cold, yeast-fermented, malt-flavoured beverage with hops on a hot summer day — said, perhaps, nobody ever. But after Friday’s announcement by Health Canada about the final rules for edible (and drinkable) cannabis products, makers of THC-infused drinks may have to sell the public on the concept. Federal regulations allow de-alcoholized wine and beer ...