Article by Stephanie Matteis, CBC News Long-term cannabis use could be elevating stress and anxiety levels in young adults, according to a new study by Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The study’s lead author, Dr. Romina Mizrahi, said the perception is so widespread that cannabis helps users cope with anxiety and stress that her team expected to see that in ...

Article by Lauren O’Neil, BlogTO Halifax likes cannabis, Edmonton prefers meth and Vancouverites are into morphine (… and coke, and also meth). This is what federal government scientists were able to determine through the results of a 12-month-long pilot project that tested municipal wastewater samples across five major Canadian cities for traces of at least a dozen different drugs. “Accurate measures ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Leaf News New data suggest pet poisonings from cannabis are on the rise, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association says. The Pet Poison Helpline, a U.S.-based animal poison control centre that also serves Canadian pet owners and veterinarians, tracked 179 cases of pets being exposed to cannabis in Canada between the start of 2016 and June 30, 2019. ...

Article by Cannabis Life Network A biochemist at the University of New Brunswick says the legalization of recreational cannabis has opened the door for scientists to find medical potential of cannabis. Yang Qu says: Cannabis is rapidly being transformed from an underground species into an industrial crop that awaits medical and agricultural development. “In the past the major driving force of the breeding was to get a ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Leaf News Zero-tolerance policies towards employee cannabis use have been instituted by 40 per cent of Canadian employers surveyed for a recent Conference Board of Canada report. The survey didn’t explicitly define “zero-tolerance,” meaning the term could have been open to respondents’ interpretations, said Conference Board senior researcher Monica Haberl. But the think-tank’s report defined zero-tolerance workplace cannabis policies as those ...

Article by Anisha Dhiman, Growth Op Even though some may consider having a bad trip as normal, wouldn’t it be amazing if a person could learn how cannabis affects them before they even tried it? No more anxiety attacks, paranoia, bodily discomfort… a world without bad cannabis trips. Lobo Genetics, a Toronto-based healthcare technology company, claims it has the answer: DNA testing. The ...

Article by Bridgette Watson, CBC News Wastewater samples collected from across the country have given the federal government a better indication of what drugs are being used in Canadian cities, suggesting the highest consumption of cannabis is in Halifax while the highest use of methamphetamine was in Edmonton. Statistics Canada has reported its findings from a 12-month pilot project beginning in March 2018 that involved collecting ...

Article by Brandie Weikle, Toronto Star When Alexander Repetski’s daughter Gwen was born seven years ago, she was “extraordinarily healthy.” But by the time she was 18 months old, doctors were telling Alex and his wife to buy a wheelchair accessible van. Gwen was in a near vegetative state caused by a condition called refractory intractable epilepsy, a form of ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Leaf News Sixteen per cent of Canadians used cannabis in the second quarter of 2019, according to Statistics Canada — a figure unchanged from pre-legalization usage in the same period of 2018, but slightly lower than the 18 per cent rate tracked in the first quarter of this year. The latest National Cannabis Survey measured cannabis use among those aged 15 ...

Article by Leaf News New research tracking legal cannabis stores in Canada illustrates how two of the federal government’s key legalization objectives — protecting public health and eliminating the black market for cannabis — might sometimes be at odds. The paper was written by a group of Ottawa physicians, and published in the journal CMAJ Open. The researchers examined the differences ...