Article by Kim Zarzour, Toronto Star “Thanks but no thanks.” That was the answer Monday night from local councillors to a suggestion Richmond Hill should be one of the first host towns for legal recreational marijuana sales. The town of Richmond Hill received a letter Nov. 28 from the Ministry of Finance announcing a cannabis store may be coming to town in July ...

Article by Jeff Gray and Justin Giovannetti, Globe and Mail The Ontario government says it will delay opening branches of its new cannabis retail chain in municipalities that object to having them. A handful of mayors in the Greater Toronto Area have said they do not want a marijuana store in their areas, even though they recognize they are powerless ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News Bills C-45 and C-46 are currently at second reading in the Senate, after making their way through the House earlier this year. Bill C-46 entered the Senate on Nov 1 and C-45 on Nov 28. The debate around both bills in the Senate has been, so far, relatively limited, with a little less than ...

Article by Lift News The Toronto Police Service announced they have again raided a cannabis dispensary at 33 Kensington Ave. Five arrests were made and cannabis and cash were seized. On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, at approximately 6:30 p.m., officers executed a search warrant at the Toronto Dispensary at 33 Kensington Avenue. It is alleged that during the execution of the search warrant, ...

Article by Jamil Dayekh, International Policy Digest Since the Canadian Federal government announced that cannabis, both recreational and medicinal, will be legalized on July 1, 2018, the Canadian government and provinces have found the process of figuring out distribution to be a difficult task. However, Alberta and Manitoba have developed some very interesting distribution models which they describe as hybrids. ...

Article by MIke Okada, Cannabis Life Network After hearing the feedback from almost 50,000 British Columbians, the provincial government released BC’s first decisions on cannabis regulation today, announcing a mix of public and private retailers of recreational cannabis once it is legalized in 2018, finally confirming what many believed BC was going to do. Other details include: Minimum age of 19, bringing cannabis ...

Article by Armina Ligaya, CTV News For the owner of Uncle Ike’s, one of the biggest marijuana shops in Seattle, the teenagers who come through his legal storefront to score weed are some of the clearest indicators the black market is on the wane. “Underage kids try to sneak into our store with fake IDs from the local high schools,” ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News Shoppers Drug Mart has announced it has entered into an agreement with Aphria for supply of medical cannabis in anticipation of approval of the drug store chain’s application to sell medical cannabis through Health Canada’s ACMPR. Shoppers applied for a licence through the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes regulations in the past in ...

Article by Colin Perkel, Global News From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen significant changes in recent years and, no doubt, will see more as the country hurtles toward a new world of legalization next summer. What does seem clear, however, is that the illegal market is ...

Article by Darryn Davis, Shauna Cunningham and Paul Soucy, Global News The federal government’s plan to add a $1 tax on every gram of cannabis sold when it’s legalized next year isn’t sitting well with producers and users of medical marijuana. Dianna Donnelly has a prescription and uses medical cannabis to help with depression. “For the medicinal part of it I used to be ...