Article by Toronto Star The Ontario Cannabis Store says the median price of dried flower dropped 25 per cent in its first full year of operation since legalization in a bid to compete with the illegal market. The illegal price was $8.23 per gram, compared with $8.56 at OSC.ca and $10.84 at retail stores. Ontario consumers spent $385.1 million for ...

Article by Toronto.com Ontarians shelled out almost $20 million in the first three months that edibles and other products in Canada’s second wave of legalization were available for sale — and experts believe that number will only grow. Cannabis vapes, topicals, concentrates and edibles such as gummies and chocolates hit store shelves in January with beverages following in March, but ...

Article by Hamdi Issawi, MacLean’s Magazine On April 27, the Nuxalk First Nation, nestled in British Columbia’s Bella Coola Valley, simply stopped asking. Five weeks earlier, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the chief and council had declared a local state of emergency and set up a checkpoint on the only highway into the valley to restrict non-essential traffic. Like ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press A group of men who stormed into the band office on a London-area Indigenous community and occupied it for five days say they ended the occupation Monday to allow services to the community to resume. OPP raids on six illegal pot shops on the outskirts of the Oneida of the Thames First Nation ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Marijuana Business Daily New data released by the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) reveals key details about marijuana sales and consumer preferences in Canada’s largest province, including: Total provincial sales approached 400 million Canadian dollars ($297.6 million) for the OCS fiscal year. Recreational cannabis sales are dominated by dried flower and pre-rolls amid a limited early rollout of edibles, ...

Article by David Jagielski, Motley Fool The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) has released data on its sales over the past 12 months, from April 1, 2019, until March 31, 2020. In total, for the full fiscal year, the OCS website generated 71.4 million Canadian dollars while the government-run retail stores brought in CA$313.7 million in revenue. In March, the OCS’ online ...

Article by Arron Pickard, Sudbury.com Three more pot shops are in the process of opening in Greater Sudbury. JTS Buds will open at 1485 Lasalle Blvd., while Happy Life will open at 1021 The Kingsway. Fire & Flower Cannabis Co. will be located at 1400 The Kingsway, in the same building as Five Guys and Party City. All three shops ...

Article by CTV News The Ontario Cannabis Store says the median price of dried flower dropped 25 per cent in its first full year of operation since legalization in a bid to compete with the illegal market. The illegal price was $8.23 per gram, compared with $8.56 at OSC.ca and $10.84 at retail stores. Ontario consumers spent $385.1 million for ...

Article by Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily Canadian businesses exported more dried medical cannabis than ever last year, but that growth is expected to be challenged when the country’s main export destination – Germany – initiates local production later this year. In 2019, federally regulated producers in Canada exported roughly 3,740 kilograms (8,245 pounds) of dried cannabis for medical and ...

Article by Sidney Cohen, CBC News More than a year and half after the legalization of cannabis in Canada, the Northwest Territories is finally accepting proposals for a private pot shop. That’s right: one shop. And that one store will be located in Yellowknife — though procurement documents say the territorial government may authorize other private cannabis retailers in the future. But ...