Article by Patrick Cain, Global News People using a driving simulator showed no signs of impairment a day after they smoked cannabis, though they still tested positive for THC, its main psychoactive component, a recently-published paper says. The research has implications for laws and workplace rules that require no trace of THC, which Scott Macdonald, a retired professor at the University ...

Article by Graham Paine, Burlington Post via Toronto.com A fourth cannabis retail store in Burlington called Corner Cannabis is going through the regulatory approval process with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO). The proposed location is 3007 New St. at Guelph Line in the Roseland Plaza. The public will be able to have its say, when the 15-day public consultation ...

Article by Christy Somos, CTV News Ontario is thinking about changing the lottery system being used to award cannabis retail licenses after the first year of legalization saw only 24 outlets open, with critics panning the lack of access for consumers. The province has sold $216.8 million of cannabis in the first year of legalization according to analysis by BNN Bloomberg. ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star via Our Windsor And the battle begins in earnest. With the introduction of edible, beverage, vape and other new products over the coming months, the country’s legal pot industry will finally bring both passive fists to the fight with its shadowy, illicit counterpart, experts say. And the range of confections, booze alternatives and vaping ...

Article by Michael Lee, North Bay Nugget The Ontario government announced Monday it will provide approximately $2.4 million through the Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) grant to help police services — including North Bay OPP and the North Bay Police Service — to catch impaired drivers this holiday season. The funding will be provided to 172 police services in the ...

Article by Brendan Bures, The Fresh Toast via Growth Op Next time you feel the effects of a headache or migraine coming on, you might skip the Tylenol and smoke some cannabis. That’s because inhaling marijuana nearly cuts headache and migraine pain in half, according to a recent study. Published in The Journal of Pain, this research represents the first study ...

Article by Jesse B. Staniforth, Leafly Though 1.1 million Canadians may use cannabis for medical purposes, a huge majority—some 800,000—do so without prescription, self-medicating with products purchased either from legal retailers, or from the illicit market. For some doctors and pharmacists, Shoppers Drug Mart’s push to offer medical cannabis in all provinces may be what Canadians need to move its self-medicating consumers ...

Article by Bobby Hristova, Growth Op Cannabis 2.0 likely won’t come in time for Christmas after all. Reps in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec all say they expect the first sales of edibles, extracts and topicals to come no sooner than January 2020. And if anything does come before then it will be a “very limited supply.” Dec. 16, 2019, ...

Article by Jason Viau, CBC News Opening a hemp-based business for two moms in Tecumseh, Ont. has involved more than a year of red tape and roadblocks, largely because of the connection to cannabis. Finding a bank, insurance and a landlord wasn’t easy, according to Melissa Boow and Tiffany Rizok, and nearly forced them to give up trying. The owners constantly had ...

Article by Colin Kellaher, Wall Street Journal Canopy Growth Corp. CGC 14.16%▲ said David Klein, who currently serves as chief financial officer of major shareholder Constellation Brands Inc., STZ.B -1.64%▲ will join the cannabis company as chief executive, effective Jan. 14. . Canopy said Mark Zekulin will step down as CEO and resign from the board, effective Dec. 20. . Mr. Zekulin, a company founder who stepped in as CEO in ...