Article by David Brown, Lift Winnipeg, Manitoba is now home to its second licensed producer of medical cannabis. Bonify Medical Cannabis received their license to cultivate cannabis for medical purposes on Monday, April 10. Jeff Peitsch, the President and CEO of Bonify, says he is excited to soon begin growing cannabis in their 320,000 sq ft facility. After applying in ...

Article by Daniel LeBlanc, The Globe and Mail The federal government is getting ready to drastically speed up its licensing process to increase the numbers of companies that are authorized to produce marijuana for the recreational market that will open up in the first half of 2018, sources said. A senior federal official said that in addition to tabling legislation ...

Article by Kristy Kirkup, Toronto Star Marijuana is a “dangerous drug,” Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch said Tuesday as she promised to undo the Liberal government’s efforts to legalize it, should she become her party’s leader and eventually prime minister. There are too many public health and safety concerns surrounding marijuana for it to be legal, Leitch told The Canadian ...

Article by David Brown, Lift When the task force put forward their recommendations for packaging for legal cannabis, they highlighted several public health concerns they sought to have addressed by the future regulations. Many of these regulations are informed by and similar to existing regulations limiting how tobacco is packaged and marketed in Canada. Among them are restrictions on promotion ...

Article by Dalson Chen, Windsor Star As word continues to grow of the federal government moving toward full legalization of marijuana, local potheads are preparing to celebrate their day of days — April 20 — right in the heart of downtown Windsor. The 420 Festival is being organized by Joshua Jacquot (who went public earlier this year about his fight to use medical ...

Article by CBC News Possessing a single marijuana plant has landed a woman from Hanna, Alta., in hot water with police. RCMP executed a search warrant at a home in Hanna, about 200 kilometres northeast of Calgary, on Saturday where they found one marijuana plant and equipment used for growing. Police seized the plant and the equipment and arrested a 48-year-old ...

Article by Betsy Powell, The Toronto Star The Attorney General is seeking a forfeiture order for almost $600,000 seized from the carry-on luggage of an alleged pot dispensary courier waiting to board a flight to Vancouver at Pearson airport in January. “There are reasonable grounds for the court to find that the property that is the subject of this proceeding ...

Article by Catherine Cullen, CBC News When marijuana becomes a legal recreational drug in Canada, the Liberal government wants Canadians to be able to hold up to 30 grams without fear of running afoul of the law, Radio-Canada and CBC News have learned. That is just one of several details about what will be included in the federal government’s marijuana ...

Article by Jennifer Pagliaro, The Toronto Star “Another one?” A steady stream of exasperated, would-be customers standing on the sunlit sidewalk outside the Toronto Leaf Dispensary on Queen St. E. and Jarvis St. on Friday afternoon share a common refrain. Just after 1 p.m., uniformed police officers and the city’s by-law enforcement officers walked up to the frosted glass door ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Lift Tweed took Canada’s medical marijuana industry by storm last week when it announced that it will be opening an online store where Tweed, Mettrum, and Bedrocan customers can directly buy from all three brands in a one-stop shopping experience. While a Tweed press release stipulates that Tweed Main Street will only sell products from Canopy’s ...