Toronto is an amazing city for cannabis with so many diverse events going on. Here is a list of the events going on this upcoming week and weekend: Monday November 6, 2017: Ganja Pranayama (All Levels) When: 5:00pm-6:30pm Where: The House of Yoga (714 Bloor St W, Toronto) Price: $30/class, 5 classes for $125 Marvelous Monday When: 8:00pm-10:00pm Where: The House of Yoga (714 ...

Article by Geoff Zochodne, Financial Post Health Canada will receive the bulk of the more than half-a-billion dollars the federal government has earmarked to get the recreational marijuana industry ready for its July 2018 legalization target, according to a breakdown of the funds provided by the department of finance. Ottawa said in its fall economic statement last week that it would ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News As Bill C-45 reaches report stage in the House of Commons on November 1, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has proposed an amendment that she hopes will draw attention to what she says are unreasonably harsh criminal penalties for Canadians sharing cannabis. May’s motion calls for the deletion of Clause 9 of the Cannabis Act, which deals ...

Article by Manisha Krishnan, Vice Jagmeet Singh has fielded many comparisons to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as of late, but when I asked him about that Tuesday morning, he replied jokingly—yet without hesitation: “I’m younger and hipper than him.” I met Singh, the recently elected leader of the federal NDP party at a coffee shop in downtown Toronto. He looked ...

Article by Joseph Flaherty, Phoenix New Times You’ve probably seen them around: marijuana factoids on billboards alongside a teal smiley-face logo for an app company called Weedmaps. Seems pretty innocent, right? Not so, says a stridently anti-marijuana Arizona organization, which is raising alarms over the billboards. The group has asked the Attorney General’s office to investigate the company for alleged ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen The name of the government agency that will sell pot to Ontario has been revealed: the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp. Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But neither does LCBO, the name of the provincial liquor monolith that sells us whiskey and wine. That acronym is so well known in Ontario that today no one ...

Article by Caleb McMillan, Cannabis Life Network Despite no evidence of organized crime in the illegal cannabis industry, that growers, dispensaries, and other value-added producers are “paper criminals” interested only in producing a quality product or service in a free and fair market — the government still insists on eradicating this current industry. Looks like the future of Canadian cannabis rests ...

Article by Brian Fitzpatrick, Metro News As Ontario awaits recreational cannabis legalization, industry figures are warning that unless regulations are loosened, Toronto could lose out on a mini tourism boom. Abi Roach of Toronto’s Hotbox Café, where visitors have brought their own cannabis since 2003, says some 40 to 50 per cent of her 100,000 yearly visits are from people based ...

Article by Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care In response to the federal government’s plan to legalize cannabis in July 2018, Ontario’s proposed approach to legalization is informed by the province’s experience in managing tobacco and alcohol, as well as lessons from other jurisdictions that have recently legalized cannabis. Recreational versus medical cannabis Ontario is proposing to regulate the ...

By CBC News Ontario’s Attorney General Yassir Naqvi joins Matt Galloway to talk about the new legislation for legal cannabis, as well as changes to the province’s police services act. See source here