Article by Michelle Ghoussoub, CBC News As B.C. begins to fill in the details about how non-medical marijuana will be regulated and sold once officially legalized, the annual debacle around 4/20 — Vancouver’s ‘potestival’ celebrating cannabis culture — is just kicking off. The debate around the location of the event — which does not have a permit from the city — has been ongoing since it moved from the Vancouver Art ...

Article by Reuters Recreational marijuana in Canada will only go on sale a few months after it is legalized later this year because the new retail system needs time to start working properly, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said on Tuesday. The Liberal government says the new law must be in place by July 1 this year, which would make ...

Article by Travis Lupick, Georgia Straight An unusual aspect of Canada’s soon-to-be-legal cannabis market is that the activists who led the legalization movement may find themselves excluded from the industry for which their efforts paved the way. Vancouver activists like Jodie and Marc Emery and dispensary pioneer Don Briere, for example, have criminal records for possessing and selling marijuana. Now ...

Article by Daniel LeBlanc and Christina Pellegrini, Globe and Mail Canadians will have to wait until late in the summer before they will be able to legally consume cannabis under a new timeline laid out by the federal government – even if the Senate votes in favour of the legislation by May or June. Ottawa now says it will give ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen An Ottawa judge has discharged drug-trafficking charges against a young clerk who worked at a marijuana dispensary but said she didn’t realize the business was illegal. The woman was only 21, had no criminal record, has accepted responsibility and expressed remorse, and is at low risk of re-offending, said Justice Norman Boxall in his sentencing ...

Article by Kate Robertson, Lift News Canada’s ministers of Justice, Public Safety and Health appeared at the Senate today to defend its government’s Cannabis Act (Bill C-45) as part of ongoing deliberations about how legalization will be implemented this summer. Senators grilled Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, cannabis task force head Bill Blair and Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas ...

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Article by CBC News Vancouver pot activist Jodie Emery says she was “distressed” when Royal Bank suddenly notified her it was closing her account and stopping her credit cards. “I’ve had that bank account since I was a little kid with my babysitting money,” she told CBC News. “I’ve paid taxes. I’m a great client. I don’t carry a lot ...

Article by Alex Conde, Lift News Ontario’s cannabis legislation (Bill 174) passed in December, and we know that recreational cannabis sales are planned to happen via a new Crown corporation, the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC). But there are a host of additional regulations that have been proposed to flesh out the details of the legislation and the federal Cannabis ...

Article by John Paul Tasker, CBC News The full implementation of legal cannabis could occur later than July 1, government officials told CBC News Tuesday. While the Liberal government is still hoping its legislation will pass Parliament before July — even though it faces entrenched opposition from some Conservative senators — it recognizes it may take some provinces 8 to 12 weeks of further work ...