Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Ottawa’s new Cannabis Culture pot shop was raided by police Thursday morning, the day after the chain’s high-profile founder Marc Emery and his wife, Jodie, were arrested before boarding a plane to Spain. Cannabis Culture stores in at least three other cities — Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver — were also raided Thursday. There was ...

Article by Vancouver Sun Vancouver police are currently raiding the Hastings Street headquarters of Cannabis Culture cafe along with other pot shops across the country, while the owners of marijuana dispensary chain  — Marc and Jodie Emery — remain in custody in Toronto.   Quick vid outside @CannabisCulture in #Vancouver. Not much happening, just saw officer enter with bolt cutters. pic.twitter.com/4rmMAU3s61 ...

Article by Travis Dolynny, Global News Marc and Jodie Emery, Canada’s “Prince” and “Princess of Pot,” are behind bars Thursday morning after being arrested in Toronto. According to their lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, the marijuana activists were arrested at Pearson International Airport Wednesday night, and are being held awaiting a bail hearing set for 10 a.m. There is no word on ...

Article by Kyle Benning, CHML AM900 The City of Vancouver has handed out nearly half a million dollars in fines to marijuana dispensaries but has only collected a fraction of the total. It has handed out 1,300 tickets, but only about $100,000 worth of fines have been collected. Currently, there are 45 shops in Vancouver that are still subject to a ...

Article by CBC News Senior officials from three provincial government departments and two Crown corporations will “assess the risks associated with the legalization” of marijuana in New Brunswick and recommend the best distribution and retail sales model by September, the government says. A group of officials from Health, Finance, and Justice and Public Safety, as well as the New Brunswick Liquor ...

Article by CBC News An organizer with Vancouver’s 4/20 event has vowed to go ahead with it, even though the Vancouver Park Board voted against granting the organizers a special permit. On CBC’s The Early Edition, activist Dana Larsen said the pro-marijuana celebration would go ahead on Sunset Beach. “Look, we’ve been putting on 4/20 in the city for 22 years. This ...

Article by Kelly Coulter, Lift In honour of International Women’s Day, the cannabis industry must take a good long look at how it will not only include and support women, but also raise them up. This will require forward thinking folks, and some fierceness on all of our parts. There are initiatives from within the sector, but also significantly outside of ...

Article by David Brown, Lift Neil Gregg will be finishing his second semester at Kwantlen’s Cannabis Professional Series this month, and he’s looking forward to taking what he’s learned in the past 6 months into his continued education at Niagara College in Ottawa later this year. But the story Gregg really wants to tell is how he was able to ...

Article by Kevin Maimann Metro News Drug testing at work could get a whole lot more complicated with the looming legalization of marijuana. About 150 Alberta businesses have signed up for an Edmonton conference that will provide tools and strategies around drug testing and other work-related marijuana issues, as workers and employers spar over safety concerns and human rights violations. ...

Article by Roy O’Connor LLP, Newswire On March 6, 2017, Toronto law firm Roy O’Connor LLP issued a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of a proposed representative plaintiff (Erin Christiansen) against medical marijuana producer Mettrum Ltd. The lawsuit alleges that Mettrum Ltd used unauthorized pest control products in the production of some of its medical marijuana products between September ...