Article by Jason Miller, Toronto Star Dane Taylor spent the 1970s as a reveling hippie strolling down Cumberland Street, dodging police with a cannabis joint tucked between his lips — decades later his Yorkville-based music shop could be neighbours with the city’s first legal cannabis store. The first three cannabis stores in Ontario could be set up in Toronto, Brampton ...

Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post Canada’s cannabis industry will be worth just $5 billion by 2021 — far less than previously estimated, according to a new report from cannabis research firm Brightfield Group which extrapolated the industry’s value based on recreational pot sales post-legalization. Between mid-October and the end of 2018, total cannabis sales in Canada, in both the ...

Article by David Earles, The Link Last fall, after nearly a century of prohibition, Canada became the first country in North America to fully legalize marijuana. In June 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that, “We will soon have a new system in place, one that keeps cannabis out of the hands of our kids and keeps profits away from organized ...

Article by CBC News Health Canada has suspended the sales licence of Winnipeg-based cannabis producer Bonify. The federal agency barred Bonify Medical Cannabis from selling cannabis on Monday due to safety and public health concerns. “The department found that Bonify Medical Cannabis was possessing, distributing and selling product that was purchased from an illegal source, and selling product that did not comply ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Almost a month after Ontario held a pot-shop lottery, there is still no word on where the province’s first 25 stores will be located or when the public can weigh in. However, Ontario still plans to have the privately run shops open by April 1, says a spokesperson for the Alcohol and Gaming Commission ...

Article by Greg Davis, Global News City of Kawartha Lakes OPP issued a number of charges to drivers involving cannabis over the weekend. Among the incidents included are: Friday, Feb. 1 Around 1:25 p.m., OPP stopped a vehicle on Angeline Street South in Lindsay following a driving complaint from a citizen. The driver — Kelly Jefferies, 47 years of age of Georgina, ...

Article by Alan S Hale, Cornwall Standard Freeholder via Ottawa Citizen Officers from the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Services Tuesday raided at least two recreational cannabis dispensaries that recently opened on Cornwall Island. One business, Wild Flower Cannabis Dispensary, opened on Island Road on Dec. 18 and has been selling buds, oils and even edibles to Canadian and Cornwall Island residents. ...

Article by Angela Bosse, CBC News Users of medical marijuana products made by licensed producer Zenabis products will soon have another purchasing option. As part of its growth strategy, Zenabis will supply Shoppers Drug Mart with dried cannabis buds and eventually cannabis oil and other products to sell online. Current pharmaceutical regulations prohibit pharmacies from selling medical cannabis in brick and mortar stores, ...

Article by Susan Taylor, Global News The unlikely combination of freshwater fish and cannabis is producing outsized medical marijuana crops that Green Relief Inc aims to capitalize on, as the Canadian company plots a stock market listing and global expansion. In an underground southern Ontario facility surrounded by farmland, Green Relief operates a cutting-edge aquaponic farm, using filtered fish waste to fertilize cannabis plants, ...

Article by David Bell, CBC News Writer Amanda Siebert says her research suggests cannabis not only won’t make you gain weight, it will help you sleep, potentially improve your sex life and a lot more, in her book, The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life. As The Georgia Straight’s weed expert, Siebert has brought her work together in a book ...