Article by kawarthaNOW The wheels of justice grind slowly. An American man wanted in connection with a cannabis grow-op near Bancroft 19 years ago has been arrested in Ontario. In 2001, the Bancroft OPP had raided a home on Mooney Road in Hastings Highlands, where they seized more than 200 cannabis plants and located equipment associated with an extensive indoor ...

Article by Rick Zamperin, Global News The owner of Hamilton’s newest cannabis store says the COVID-19 pandemic has “been an interesting ride.” The Hunny Pot, which already has locations in Burlington and Toronto, opened Saturday on Centennial Parkway North, across from the Eastgate Square shopping mall. Company spokesperson Cameron Brown says Hamilton has always been a market it hoped to expand to because he ...

Article by Kate Robertson, Growth Op When Vancouver-based Hobo Cannabis opened its doors in Ottawa in May of 2019, management brushed off criticism that the name marginalized people experiencing homelessness. At the time, the Donnelly Group’s VP Harrison Stoker told The GrowthOp, it’s about “the verb to hobo. The idea of readily dropping your worldly possessions and travelling that was championed in the ...

Article by Sam Riches, Growth Op In December, New Brunswick-based producer Zenabis recalled a line of “CBD Light” gel caps, labelled as containing six milligrams of CBD per capsule, with no THC. It turns out, they were actually THC gel caps with no CBD whatsoever. Zenabis isn’t the only producer to run into labelling issues. Last September, Aurora Cannabis recalled ...

Article by Aileen Zangouei, York Region Investigators with Ontario Provincial Police have charged 16 people with a total of 218 charges in connection to a Canada-wide, multi-police force probe into the illegal manufacturing and distribution of contraband tobacco and illicit drugs. The investigation, known as Project Cairnes, took off in July 2018 when the OPP Contraband Tobacco Enforcement Team began ...

Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op Method Man is looking to help level the playing field in the cannabis industry by encouraging more Black ownership and partnering with four Black-owned dispensaries as early as this weekend. Known for his work with Wu-Tang Clan, Method Man, whose real name is Clifford Smith, has a 20 per cent ownership stake in the ...

Article by Kenneth Armstrong, Guelph Today One of Ontario’s first Spiritleaf store will be Guelph’s first cannabis store when it opens Wednesday, ending a drought of legal options for local users of cannabis products. Corin Cominsky and her brother Steve Cominsky are partners with their father Steve Cominsky in a Spiritleaf franchise, which will open next week at the Edinburgh Market ...

Article by Max Wark, CTV News The market for cannabis stores has proved to be as strong as ever through the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s website as of Thursday, there are three pot shops in Waterloo Region authorized to be open and 19 more applications in waiting. There have been seven applications to ...

Article by David Wylie, Casanet My mini-fridge is stocked with cannabis drinks. Getting them in the first place, however, was difficult. The main challenge you’ll come across while trying to stock up is cannabis equivalencies – that’s the amount of cannabis said to be contained in Cannabis 2.0 products. Houseplant’s Grapefruit Sparkling Water, for instance, has the equivalency of 5.1 ...

Article by Jim Moodie, Sudbury Star Pot stores, like many other retailers, are open again to walk-in traffic, but many customers are still leery of in-person shopping or, lacking their own vehicle, aren’t quite ready to board a bus. With that in mind, the Highlife store at Silver Hills is now offering delivery to your doorstep. “It’s something we considered ...