Article by Tim Whitnell, Burlington Post via Inside Halton A Hamilton man has been charged after police raided a Burlington business allegedly selling medical marijuana to people directly and also to those without a licence to possess it. Members of the Halton Regional Police Services Burlington Street Crime Unit, in collaboration with City of Burlington bylaw enforcement, conducted an investigation ...

Article by Hamilton Spectator A 28-year-old man is facing drug trafficking charges after police raided his east-end Hamilton medical marijuana dispensary Tuesday. Officers from Hamilton police’s vice and drugs unit executed a search warrant at MMJ Canada — located at 146 Ottawa St. N. — around 1 p.m. and found about $100,000 worth of marijuana and marijuana products, including edibles. ...

Article by CBC News Armed robbers hit another Toronto pot dispensary, this time on Eglinton Avenue West late Wednesday evening. Multiple men entered the Canna Clinic dispensary at 527 Eglinton Avenue West shortly before 9 p.m., according to Toronto police. One of them took out a gun, sending staff and customers running. The suspects themselves fled on foot after grabbing ...

Article by Laura Kane, Financial Post Garfield Mahood has spent 30 years fighting for the Canadian government to require plain packaging for cigarettes. So, the long-time non-smokers’ rights activist says he doesn’t have much faith in the government’s ability to regulate and restrict the marketing of marijuana. “They identified tobacco products as a cause of disease back in the 1950s,” ...

Article by Matthew Bingley, CBC News It’s been more than three weeks since police raided six Saint John stores selling marijuana. Since then two have reopened and remained open in the face of further police action. Saint John Police executed search warrants on Jan. 24, seizing marijuana products and money from all six stores. Twelve people were arrested and charged ...

Article by The Kelowna Daily Courier Pot shops are targeted by authorities as soon as they open up in Kelowna, municipal officials say. “We’ve been consistent in our messaging that medical marijuana storefront dispensaries are not lawful, and that any that open will be subject to bylaw and RCMP enforcement actions,” city clerk Stephen Fleming said Wednesday. Nevertheless, city officials ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, Hamilton Spectator Medical marijuana dispensary owners, employees and patients gathered outside city hall Wednesday in protest of the city’s crackdown against the businesses and to call for regulation. The rally was organized in response to “cease and desist” letters sent out by the city to 17 medical marijuana dispensaries last week. The letters cited zoning infractions ...

Article by Katie DeRosa, Times Colonist West Shore RCMP have once again moved to shut down Langford’s first and only pot shop, arresting two people and seizing marijuana on Wednesday. Mounties executed a search warrant at Green Tree Medical Dispensary at 108-688 Granderson Rd. “The storefront had illegally reopened its doors over the weekend contrary to municipal and federal regulations,” ...

Article by Kieran Delmont, Now Toronto There’s a reason why dumb crime stories are so entertaining: there’s something morally satisfying about the bad guys being the architect of their own demise. On January 30, two masked men entered Green Buddha Medicinals marijuana dispensary on College. One was armed with a revolver; the other carried a hockey bag. According to police, ...

Article by Grant Robertson, The Globe and Mail More than a million dollars of medical marijuana has been destroyed so far amid the fallout from a tainted cannabis scare hitting the government-regulated sector, as patients’ fears grow that Health Canada has no way of knowing how big the problem actually is. Canopy Growth Corp., which recently acquired Mettrum Ltd., said ...