Article by Hamilton Spectator Halton police have raided a marijuana dispensary in Burlington, arresting the business owner and seizing approximately $22,000-worth of product. Police executed a warrant at Frank’s Magic Crops at 419 Guelph Line on May 2, seizing 1.5 kilograms of marijuana and edible cannabis products, along with $1,581 in cash. The business owner, Anne Pastor, 69, of Burlington ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen An Ottawa lawyer is launching a constitutional challenge to Canada’s medical marijuana laws as part of his defence of a pot shop clerk charged with drug trafficking. Three days have been set aside in an Ottawa court in May 2018 to hear the challenge. He’s still formulating the case, said lawyer Yavar Hameed. However, ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Lift News G’day mate! It’s only a few days into May and two licensed producers under Canada’s Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations have announced shipments of cannabis products to Australia. On May 2nd, “global leader” in medical cannabis research and production Tilray announced that it had conducted its first import of medical cannabis products ...

Article by Paul Palmeter, CBC News A Cape Breton pharmacist has been suspended, fined and fired for making marijuana cookies for a patient and putting them in a pharmacy bag to be picked up at a drug store. JoAnne Andrews has agreed that her actions amounted to professional misconduct and has been suspended by the Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists for ...

Article by Charles Hamilton, CBC News As marijuana legalization looms, there are still thousands of people across Canada fighting pot-related charges — Mark Hauk is one of them. The founder of the Saskatchewan Compassion Club is awaiting trial on trafficking charges relating to his operation of an unlicensed medical marijuana dispensary in Saskatoon. He was arrested in October 2015. Hauk is confident that ...

Article by Bryan Labby, CBC News If Canada’s new impaired driving laws are passed police could show up on your doorstep — up to two hours after you arrive home — to demand a breath or saliva sample. It’s one of the things that most concerns Calgary defence lawyer Dale Fedorchuk. who says the proposed law “begs” for a constitutional challenge. Fedorchuk says officers ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News Health Canada began accepting applications from patients with approval from a physician last August in response to a court ruling in February 2016, but the process has quickly created a backlog with what some are saying is a greater interest in the program than was expected. Although applications in the first few months were ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News The Hydropothecary Corporation today announced a voluntary stop­-sale and stop­-shipment on all products due to detection of myclobutanil, a fungicide not approved for use on cannabis in Canada. The company emphasizes this is not a recall of product, as the fungicide was found on plants, not finished cannabis products. The company says the source ...

Article by Colin Butler, CBC News A University of Guelph professor who penned a book on the history of illegal drugs in Canada says after nearly a century of marijuana prohibition, no one is really sure why it was made illegal in the first place. “We don’t actually know,” Catherine Carstairs told The Morning Edition host Craig Norris Tuesday. A ...

Article by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon and Julia Wright, CBC News Eleven people facing drug trafficking-related charges in connection with a series of police raids at medical marijuana dispensaries in Saint John earlier this year have had their court cases set over until May 30 without entering any pleas. William Caines, Sarah Deering, Ronald Flynn, Ryan Francis, Lance Kangos, Sarah Kirbyson, Jonathan ...