Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift news. The study compares experiences of home growers, buyers from dispensaries, Health Canada’s licensed producer, and black market suppliers. A public survey was conducted asking respondents to rate their sources for quality and availability of product, safety and efficiency of access, cost, and feeling respected while accessing. Of the 445 respondents, 215 accessed their cannabis ...

Article by Star Editorial Board, The Toronto Star. The federal government should immediately decriminalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana. And it needs a plan to make it easier for people convicted under the present drug laws to obtain a pardon and wipe their record clean. By this time next year, if all goes to plan, using marijuana for ...

Article by Ryan Tumilty, Toronto Metro. Medical marijuana users say the Trudeau government’s plans to legalize marijuana involve too many roadblocks. Activists and users said during a press conference Monday that the Liberal’s bill, which has yet to pass the House, still marks marijuana as something people need to be ashamed of. “My Canada includes being marginalized, stigmatized and criminalized ...

Article by Jennifer Kaplan, Bloomberg News. One in five American adults can now legally eat, drink, smoke or vape cannabis however they please. For the fledgling companies fighting for customer attention, the game of differentiating their products through branding is on. And nothing conveys these emerging marijuana brands and stories so clearly as the pretty packaging in which they’re increasingly ...

Article by Chris Morris, Fortune.com. Sin City’s latest vice is fast turning into a crowd favorite statewide. Legal recreational marijuana sales in Nevada generated $3 million in salesrevenue and roughly $500,000 in tax revenue in their first four days, according to the Nevada Dispensary Association. That puts the state on track to pull in sales of $30 million by the ...

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Article by Kent Gruetzmacher, The Fresh Toast. Most Americans know someone who is suffering from addiction in one form or another—alcoholism is perhaps the most pervasive of these chemical afflictions. Furthermore, the use of alcohol has become an integral part of almost all ritualized social activities across Western culture. While controlled, social drinking doesn’t pose any adverse physical or psychological ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, for Policy Opinions. Canada is legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, but it’s also introducing 45 new criminal offences. How will police and the courts react? Canada’s plan to legalize cannabis could bring with it an increase in law enforcement activity, arrests and jail time — and here’s why. Cannabis is currently controlled by the ...

Article by David Brown, Lift news. According to new information from Health Canada, as of June 16, 2017, there were 6,225 active registration certificates issued by Health Canada for individuals to produce a limited amount of cannabis for their own medical purposes. Of these 6,225 registrants, says a Health Canada representative, 5,760 individuals were registered to produce cannabis for their ...

Written by Maryjane Backwoods, for Dankr.ca It’s the day after the first annual 710 Cup (extract festival/competition) and I’m still lightly medicated after all the dabs I had, eating myself into a food-coma and falling asleep fairly early. I went on Sunday and I’m glad I did because I heard that Saturday was a lot busier (maybe due to other ...