Article by Amara McLaughlin, CBC News Toronto police have raided a Hamilton pot shop owned by the so-called Prince of Pot, Marc Emery and his wife, Jodie just hours after the couple was arrested in Toronto heading to a marijuana festival in Europe. About a dozen police officers were inside and around the Emery’s Hamilton marijuana dispensary, Cannabis Culture on King Street East, near Jarvis Street at 11 ...

Article by Steph Crosier, Kingston Whig-Standard A downtown marijuana dispensary that opened earlier this week was raided by Kingston Police on Thursday night. Sgt. Brad Brooker of the police’s street crime unit said the investigation into Canna Green started on Thursday and a Controlled Substances Act search warrant was executed at approximately 9:30 p.m. Six employees were arrested at the ...

Article by Sunny Freeman, Business Financial Post. Publicly-traded marijuana companies had a rough week but got a bounce Thursday following news of raids at the Cannabis Culture dispensary chain owned by Marc and Jodie Emery. The outspoken marijuana activists were arrested at Toronto’s Pearson Airport and a series of Cannabis Culture dispensaries, which are not licensed to sell medical marijuana, ...

Article by Brent Cooper, Bracebridge Examiner via Muskoka Region A Bracebridge resident and OPP police officer found guilty of violating orders from his superiors not to attend a conference that discussed the legalization of marijuana has received his punishment. Sgt. Dan Mulligan, who is a member of the Ontario Provincial Police’s Aviation Services Section/Helicopter Unit, has been ordered to perform ...

UPDATE: All arrested have been released on bail. See full details here. During the morning of Thursday, March 9, 2017, 11 Criminal Code and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants were executed in Toronto, the Hamilton area and Vancouver as part of Project Gator, a Toronto Police Service project targeting an illegal marijuana dispensary. In Toronto, warrants were executed at ...

Article by Chris Carr, Times Colonist Thirty children from across Canada are being recruited to take part in a new pilot study at the University of Saskatchewan looking at the safety and tolerability of cannabis treatment for childhood epilepsy. Health Canada recently approved the study, which will include children between the ages of one to 10 years and involve the ...

Article by Ian Bailey, The Globe and Mail Illegal marijuana dispensaries in British Columbia and Ontario say they are developing a system of testing standards amid concerns about contaminants in cannabis – both at unauthorized storefronts and in the federally regulated system. The proposal from the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, whose 25 members represent a fraction of the ...

Article by Jeremy Keefe, Global News Retailers in the New Brunswick marijuana scene are hoping a recently announced working group tasked with presenting the provincial government with recommendations ahead of marijuana legalization will take their concerns to heart. A working group created by the provincial government consisting of officials from the health, finance, justice and public safety departments as well ...

Article by Molly Hayes, Hamilton Spectator A King Street East dispensary was raided by Toronto police Thursday morning — just hours after two prominent Canadian marijuana activists were arrested at the airport. Undercover Toronto Police officers raided the Hamilton location of Cannabis Culture — easy to spot from its bright green exterior, between Walnut and Wellington Streets — this morning, ...

Written by Toronto Toker for Dankr.ca. UPDATE: All arrested have been released on bail. See full details here. Over Wednesday evening and Thursday, there have been a number of incidents involving Cannabis Culture dispensaries, their employees and police. It has yet to be confirmed, but there are strong indications that this may have been a nation wide, strategic counter approach to the ...