Article by CityNews Willie Nelson may have given up smoking, but he hasn’t stopped using marijuana. While in San Antonio last week for two performances, the 86-year-old country music legend told KSAT TV that in an effort to take better care of himself, he no longer smokes. Nelson, a longtime marijuana advocate, said he “started smoking cedar bark, went from ...

Aritcle by Dexter Docherty, Policy Options The criminalization of cannabis is now a thing of the past in Canada, but the legacy of legalization is far from clear. Legalization represents a major social and political shift, after years of work by activists successfully showed that criminalization was harmful and ineffective. Policy-makers and business people, keenly aware of the changing legal ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op Just weeks before the holidays, the top brass at a New Brunswick-based cannabis publication have laid off their entire staff in advance of being bought out by a U.S. analytics company. Saint John, N.B.-based Civilized Worldwide Inc. will become the property of New Frontier Data. Online magazine Civilized Life is included in the purchase, although its website remains ...

Article by Sannah Choi, CBC News  Toronto’s Hospital For Sick Children is warning the public that a website it once ran to help pregnant women and new mothers has fallen into the hands of a third party that runs a cannabis blog. The hospital says it closed its motherisk.org website in April and let the domain name expire. The blog the web ...

Article by Kevin Shimmin, Now Toronto Last month, the B.C. labour board conducted a union vote at Tilray’s cannabis facility in Nanaimo. While the ballot box is currently sealed, it could become the first cannabis producer to be unionized in Canada. Stateside, the United Food and Commercial Workers union already has collective agreements at cannabis production facilities in California, Oregon, Minnesota, New ...

Article by Thorold News Brock University was recently awarded permission to get started on two specific cannabis-related projects that will involve collaborations with local industry partners. “This research license will expand Brock’s remarkable track record of partnerships that enable the agri-food and biomanufacturing sectors to work with leading researchers and access a talent pipeline of highly trained graduates,” said Vice-President, ...

Article by Emma Spears, London Free Press Have a pot-loving, wanderlusting, traveller on your gift list? We’ve got you covered. While minimalist backpackers may stick with a pack of Rizlas and a lighter, some cannabis enthusiasts prefer to travel with accoutrements without sacrificing too much space or style — although it’s important to remember that it’s illegal to bring cannabis ...

Article by Alana Armstrong, Growth Op When Alycia Walker worked as a publicist at an agency in downtown Toronto, she yearned to trade the towers and traffic for trees and tranquillity without giving up her marketing career. “My husband and I were looking to get out of the city,” she says. “He owns his own landscaping company and we’ve been ...

Article by Rocco Rossi and Perrin Beatty, Toronto Sun Ontario is at an important crossroads for the province’s burgeoning cannabis industry that has implications for the broader business community, and the country as a whole. As Queen’s Park contemplates further reforms for Ontario’s cannabis industry, successful models from other provinces have shown us what lessons can be learned in growing ...

Article by Emma Spears, Growth Op The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) engaged in some serious backpedaling regarding a planned Black Friday promotion after talks with Health Canada. Last week, in a now-deleted tweet, the OCS bid Ontarians to “shop our collection of 7 grams starting at CA$7.50/g.” The tweet was soon removed and promptly replaced with an online flyer that simply indicated ...