Article by Greg Davis, Global News A Cramahe Township man faces charges after the OPP said they located a homemade cannabis extraction laboratory near Brighton on Friday. According to Northumberland OPP, as part of an investigation, officers along with the emergency response team and the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team (PJFCET), executed two Cannabis Act warrants at adjoining properties ...

Article by Graeme McNaughton, Guelph Mercury With the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, there are fewer storefronts open to would-be customers in Guelph. One store, however, is looking to open for the first time. Over the weekend, signage was installed at 314 Stone Rd. W. for Fire & Flower, an Alberta-based cannabis retailer now looking to expand into Ontario. As previously ...

Article by Braden Maccke, Cannabis Life Network As the global economy sinks rapidly into an unprecedented slowdown, Canada’s legal cannabis industry has managed to have itself declared an essential service and, looking back, that’s progress. Patients don’t stop needing medical-grade cannabis just because we are suffering through an epidemic. The economic pounding from the COVID-19 shutdown figures to hit the cannabis industry just as the capital markets have finished a painful year ...

Article by Julia Veintrop, Cannabis Life Network It’s hard. Self-isolation sucks big time, but in order to keep each other safe, this is what we have to do. The good news is that the social distancing measures put in place to combat the spread of pandemic COVID-19 are paying off as the rates of new infections are slowing down. Sick or not, ...

Article by Collingwood Today On March 28, 2020, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a member of the Huronia West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) stopped a vehicle for speeding on Hwy 26, in the Town of Wasaga Beach. The officer found the driver to be operating the vehicle with a suspended driver’s licence and with cannabis readily available to him. ...

Article by Daily Hive Cannabis might be an essential service across the country, but ordering from the Ontario Cannabis Store is going to come with some delays this week. Currently, the only legal online cannabis ordering site in the province isn’t offering overnight delivery. Customers who complete an order online will notice the option not being offered. “Our distribution centre ...

Article by Craig Lord, Ottawa Business Journal As Gatineau-based Hexo Corp. struggles to find its footing in Canada’s cannabis market, the licensed pot producer is expecting disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic to hamper its revenues in the weeks and months ahead. Hexo CEO Sebastien St. Louis discussed the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak during the company’s second-quarter conference call ...

Article by Brendan Bures, Fresh Toast Just how will the coronavirus epidemic end? It’s a question you’ve probably wondered about multiple times during this period of quarantine and social distancing. If not, you likely wish things would just go back to normal. According to experts, one way the outbreak could end is doctors developing medications that prevent and/or treat the infection. ...

Article by Tracy Lamourie, Benzinga Cannabis retail stores across the legal states had already been reporting that they were unable to keep up with the demand when it came to consumers who have expressed a clear preference for same day delivery. Retail stores unable to offer same day services were already struggling to keep their customer in today’s marketplace. (As exciting ...

Article by Kate Robertson, Growth Op How do you unwind after a long week? That question used to be easy for me to answer: I retreat from social media, roll a joint and listen to tunes or watch something. It’s more complicated now. My relationship to my home has changed. Consuming television is impossible — characters stand too close, their ...