Article by Hannah Thibedeau, CBC News The Liberal government’s point man on pot legalization says strict safeguards will be put in place for home delivery of the drug once it is available for purchase online as planned. “If we’re going to use a mail delivery system, we have to make sure that that works, to make sure that this is not ...

Article by Neil Bowen, Sarnia Observer A guilty plea to possession of medical marijuana was rejected by one Sarnia judge but accepted by another when the accused man admitted additional facts. In August, Anthony Francis Barr, 27, of St. Clair Township pleaded guilty to his April marijuana possession as well as impaired driving due to marijuana use. At that time, ...

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Article by Alison Crawford, CBC News Canadian airport security screeners have stopped calling the police every time they process a passenger traveling with medical marijuana. The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) changed its policy this month after an exponential growth in the number of passengers with prescription pot in their carry-on luggage. CATSA spokesperson Mathieu Larocque told CBC News that ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Leafly The Supreme Court of Canada is about to consider the impact of the country’s legalization plan on the country’s interprovincial trade. Canada’s top court has accepted an application from cannabis-related companies to intervene in an upcoming case that some are saying could have wide implications for interprovincial trade in the country. In 2016, Gerard Comeau of ...

Article by Michael Smee, CBC News   A Toronto marijuana retailer heads to court Thursday morning, hoping to convince a judge that many of the charges laid after last year’s wide-ranging Project Claudia raids are unconstitutional. Mark Stupak, the owner of the SoCo Medical Social Collective, was charged in May, 2016 with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of ...

Article by Jen Skerritt, Kristine Owram, and Greg Quinn, Bloomberg via Toronto Star Canada’s largest stock exchange may delist marijuana stocks that run afoul of U.S. federal law which considers the drug illegal. The Toronto Stock Exchange will contact all companies that cultivate, distribute or possess marijuana, or offer services related to the drug in any jurisdiction, by the end ...

Article by High! Canada Craig Ex, Expert Joints, met Jayda outside of the Westin Bayshore on Saturday at the Cannabis Life Conference, where she was selling lemonade to raise money for the treatment of her rare brain disease known as Vanishing White Matter Disease (according to her gofundme page, there are about 200 documented cases worldwide, but no cure and ...

Article by John Rieti, CBC News  An Ontario court has issued an interim injunction allowing the city to shut down Canna Clinic, a prominent marijuana dispensary that has reopened multiple times following police raids. The city is currently reviewing the decision handed down by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, said municipal licensing and standards executive director Tracey Cook in an email statement to CBC Toronto on ...

Article by Michael Knodt, Marijuana.com An unpublished study by Dalhousie University on behalf of the Dutch medical cannabis producer Bedrocan.nl adds another challenge to the long-debated designation of cannabis strains as “Indica,” “Sativa,” and “Hybrid.” Well-known cannabinoid researcher Ethan Russo presented the study at the 9th IACM cannabinoid congress in Cologne, Germany last Friday. The recent study is third scientific work since 2013 that ...