Written by Samantha Rae for Dankr.ca.   Have you heard the buzz in Toronto? It’s all about Nuit Vert, which is a ganja gathering happening this Sunday. Nuit Vert is the party branch of Green Market Toronto, a collective of small craft cannabis businesses being left out in the cold by Canada’s canna-laws. This event which is the first of it’s ...

Article by Ian Austen, New York Times Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but that doesn’t mean Canada will turn into a giant, smoke-filled set for a Cheech and Chong movie. If Mr. Trudeau adopts the recommendations of a panel he appointed, marijuana’s move from the black market to the open market will ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Pot smokers, dispensary owners and cannabis industry executives reacted Tuesday to the federal government task force recommendations on how Canada should go about legalizing recreational marijuana. The dispensary manager: stores should be here to stay Kristina Simpson’s hands fly up to her face in shock when she’s informed the task force has come out in favour ...

Article by Manisha Krishnan, Vice Marijuana dispensaries, lounges, and recreational smokers all have reasons to be optimistic following the release of a government report on how legalization in Canada should be shaped. The Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation made 80 recommendations to the government Tuesday. They include allowing for pot to be sold in retail spaces (a.k.a. dispensaries) ...

Article by Presse Canadienne via Montreal Gazette A new study suggests the sale of recreational marijuana would be more profitable if it were handled by the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) than by the private sector. The Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques (IRIS) study claims that within 10 years of the legalization of marijuana in Canada, the value of ...

Article by Garrett Barry and Stephanie Kinsella, CBC News A St. John’s criminal defence lawyer is sounding the alarm over a lack of clarity on what marijuana legalization will mean for the Canadian court system, following findings released Tuesday by the federal government’s task force. “There is a tremendous body of information unknown,” Bob Simmonds told CBC’s St. John’s Morning ...

Article by Max 104.9 New Brunswick’s finance minister is looking forward to the Trudeau government’s response to a federal task force’s recommendations on legalizing marijuana. Cathy Rogers said the report is a “significant step forward” in providing direction for the federal government with respect to legalization. The task force recommends pot not be available where alcohol or tobacco are sold, ...

Article by Grant Robertson, The Globe and Mail As Canada prepares to become the largest jurisdiction in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, a federal task force has told Ottawa it should also require the product to be lab-tested, safe to consume and free of harmful contaminants such as bacteria, mould and dangerous pesticides. That recommendation was part of a ...

Article by MacLean’s A federal task force on legalized recreational marijuana is recommending storefront and mail-order sales to Canadians 18 years and older, with personal growing limits of four plants per person. The framework report, headed by former federal Liberal cabinet minister Anne McLellan, says recreational marijuana should not be sold in the same location as alcohol or tobacco, and ...

Article by Mike Hager and Adrian Morrow, The Globe and Mail Canadians now have an idea of when they will be able to purchase recreational marijuana, who can buy it and how much, but where and how cannabis is sold remains up to provinces that are offering only vague opinions on the eventual retail rules for the drug. Now that ...