Article by Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg News via Financial Post Aurora Cannabis Inc. proposed the largest takeover bid in Canada’s nascent marijuana market in an attempt to expand its reach into Europe. Aurora said late Tuesday it offered to acquire CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. in an all-stock, $582 million deal that values the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based company at $24 a share, 57 per cent ...

Article by CTV News Forget about growing your own cannabis at home in Quebec, or driving a car for hours after smoking a spliff. When cannabis becomes legal in Canada later this year, the only place tokers will be allowed to acquire marijuana will be the SQC — the Societé Quebecoise du Cannabis. In tabling legislation regulating cannabis in the ...

Article by Lift News A new Department of Justice report says cannabis legalization requires a rapid response that must be carefully balanced with input from stakeholders. The Department of Justice’s 2016-17 Departmental Results Report, which sets out the details of what the government has been working on in terms of legislation, was released today. The report notes that the “accelerated pace” ...

Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift News The Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries (CAMCD) is one of the latest stakeholder groups to decry the federal government’s recently announced plan to begin taxing medical cannabis purchases when the recreational legalization regime comes into effect in July. CFAMM, the Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana, have also started a campaign to raise ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News A bill to deal with legal cannabis will be tabled next spring, said PEI Lieutenant Governor Antoinette Perry on Thursday in her first speech from the throne. The throne speech opened the fall session of the PEI legislature. While no specific details were offered, Perry said the province will be guided by the principles of ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News BC’s Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Mike Farnworth, says the province won’t rule out co-location of the sale of cannabis with alcohol in order to meet Ottawa’s goal of July 2018. In an interview on Shaw TV’s Voice of B.C., BC’s lead on the cannabis legalization ticket told host Vaughn Palmer that the province ...

Article by Angelica Montgomery, CBC News Legal cannabis could be just a click away for Quebecers once Canada’s new marijuana law comes into effect, Radio-Canada has learned. The Quebec government plans to table its own legislation to manage legal marijuana sales Thursday, Radio-Canada has confirmed, and it intends to manage online marijuana sales through the SAQ, Quebec’s publicly owned liquor agency. Neighbouring ...

Article by Samantha Beattie, Toronto Star Once an outspoken critic of legalizing pot, Julian Fantino says he changed his mind after veterans convinced him of the benefits of medical marijuana in treating post-traumatic stress disorder and managing pain. The former Toronto police chief was recently named executive chair of a GTA medical marijuana company. Fantino told a news conference Tuesday ...

Article by CTV News Medicinal marijuana dispensaries in New Brunswick say they will comply, but plan to fight any action by the RCMP to close them down. Mounties delivered letters last week notifying dispensaries of a pending crackdown that could lead to the seizure of inventories as well as criminal prosecution. “I wish to advise you that you are operating ...

Article by Darren Bernhardt, CBC News A once-prohibited vice and one of the targets of the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign of the 1980s, marijuana is set to become legal in Canada next summer — so it’s high time to talk to your kids about it. But how? “There are important questions, and hard questions, that parents might be wrestling with, like, ‘How do we reconcile ...