Article by David Cochrane, CBC News The Liberal government will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018. CBC News has learned that the legislation will be announced during the week of April 10 and will broadly follow the recommendation of a federally appointed task force that was chaired by former liberal Justice Minister Anne ...

Article by CBC News The Liberal government’s plan to move ahead on marijuana legalization is up in smoke, NDP leadership candidates suggested during Sunday’s leadership debate in Montreal while they also addressed a range of issues affecting youth, including student debt and precarious employment. B.C. MP Peter Julian, one of four contenders in the race to replace Tom Mulcair as ...

Article by CBC News Around a dozen people met on the stairs of the Manitoba Legislature on Saturday to protest a new bill proposed by the provincial government that would change the rules on cannabis. Bill 25, the Cannabis Harm Prevention Act, was introduced on Monday. It would put restrictions on cannabis similar to those on alcohol, banning people from ...

Article by Adam Miller, Global News Four people have been charged after Toronto police raided an east-end Cannabis Culture marijuana dispensary, which was also targeted on two other occasions in the past two weeks. Police said officers executed a search warrant at the Cannabis Culture dispensary located at 711 Queen St. E. around 4 p.m. Thursday. Gurpall Saini, 33, Nikolaus Petrogiani, 28, Enrique Lopez, ...

Article by Rob Petree, WDEL After years of opposition and advocacy, a bill is coming forward to legalize marijuana in the First State. Unlike the eight states and D.C. where marijuana was legalized by voter initiative, Delaware law does not allow for a referendum. This is why State Senator Margaret Rose-Henry is putting the final touches on a bill that, if ...

Article by Dominic Abassi, Nanaimo News Now It appears, for the time being, Nanaimo will remain the Wild West when it comes to marijuana dispensaries. The city has seen an explosion in storefront dispensaries, budding from two to 12 in 2015 alone, according to Nelda Richardson, the City of Nanaimo’s manager of business licencing. Richardson said the number fluctuates around ...

Article by Lift As part of the Government of Canada’s 2017 budget released today, nearly $10 million in funding is being set aside over five years to support “marijuana public education programming and surveillance activities.” As part of the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy, under the section “Public Education Programming and Surveillance for Legalized Cannabis,” the commitment also mentions $1 ...

Article by Julia Wright, CBC News Canada’s Chocolate Town starts manufacturing legal weed? Sounds like the pilot for a sitcom — or a match made in marketing heaven. Tidal Health Solutions, a medical marijuana company based in St. Stephen, tells CBC News that in addition to current openings for an assistant grower and lab technician, the company also plans to hire ...

Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift While most of Canada patiently awaits the federal government’s cannabis legalization framework to be revealed, the City of Edmonton is taking a proactive approach to making its existing municipal legislation ready for the transition. Long-standing bylaws are being reviewed and discussed, and amendments are being proposed to define and regulate where cannabis can and can’t ...

Article by Chris Roberts, High Times Fifty billion here, $10 billion there—estimates of the size and the growth of demand for cannabis, cannabis research and other marijuana-related ancillary products and services differ only in guessing at just how huge weed is going to be, everywhere, for everybody. (Amazing; this is just what investors want to hear!) Now comes sweet music ...