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Article by Lift As a longtime political hobbyist, I cannot help but be excited by the promised tabling of legislation in Parliament, which will end the prohibition on recreational use of cannabis in Canada. Without question, it will have different meaning to different people. For some, it is the next step in a lifetime of social activism, and perhaps social ...

Article by Steph Crosier, Kingston Whig-Standard A Kingston man and woman have been charged by local police after officers accompanied the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on a search warrant execution at 420 Kingston and a private residence on Friday. Sgt. Brad Brooker, of the Kingston Police street crime unit, said on Saturday that the CBSA was the lead agency ...

Article by Jennifer Lee, CBC News The job posting has only been up for six days but the folks at the National Access Cannabis location on Spring Garden Road in Halifax are swamped with applications for their cannabis information specialist position. “It’s going to be hard to choose just one person,” said Diandra Phipps, manager for the location, where almost ...

Article by Jack Kaskey, The Globe and Mail When Hadley Ford created a company for investing in the fast-growing business of legal marijuana, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker left New York and headed north of the border. While more than half of U.S. states allow marijuana for medical or recreational use, the drug is still outlawed by ...

Article by David Cochrane, CBC News With long-awaited marijuana legislation set to be announced next week, the federal government is having second thoughts about legalizing cannabis on Canada Day. The Trudeau government still plans to go ahead with its plan to make weed legal for recreational use. But a senior government source says the initial target of July 1, 2018 ...

Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift In another recent Lift article we’ve chronicled some of the key events that led up to the announcement of Canada’s legalization bill. Here we take a look at some of the key events likely to be seen in the months and years following the implementation of that bill, if and when it makes it through ...

Article by Adrian Humphreys, National Post Antonio Sergi, who was shot dead in his Toronto driveway last week, was deeply involved in the medical marijuana industry, including a province-wide bid to unionize growers and the shady operation of an urban pot farm, the National Post has learned. He was also a mob-linked crime figure known by the nickname “Tony Large” ...

Article by David Brown, Lift British Columbia’s provincial election is tentatively scheduled for early May of this year, and some in the cannabis industry are hoping cannabis becomes an election issue. Marijuana legalization, while popular in British Columbia, has traditionally not been an election issue in the province. Even as cities like Vancouver and Victoria passed laws to regulate cannabis dispensaries, ...

Article by Robson Fletcher, CBC News   Remedy Ice Cream is made in Calgary and infused with shatter — a concentrated form of marijuana. The operation may not be legal but it’s not exactly underground, either. Co-founder Chris Vasconcellos says the ice cream is meant for licensed medical marijuana patients only. As a licensed user himself, he said he was looking for a ...