The Government of Ontario is making their announcement on how they propose to regulate recreational cannabis. View original source here.

Article by Hannah Thibedeau and Mike Crawley, CBC News The Ontario government will announce Friday that it will create a cannabis control board and open up to 60 storefronts to manage the sale and distribution of marijuana in the province, CBC News has learned. The plans include restricting marijuana sales to those 19 and older, a year above the minimum age recommended ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Lift News As the Health Committee gets ready to hear from witnesses this week on the government’s plan to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes, the Committee’s parliamentary website has uploaded no less than 75 briefs that individuals and organizations have submitted for consideration. There’s a wide range of comments from an even wider range of parties submitting ...

Article by David Brown, Lift News   The Standing Committee on Health has begun posted the schedule for their discussion of Bill-C45 beginning on Sept 11. The Committee has set aside two and four hour blocks to discuss these thirteen topics, depending on the number of witnesses, with at least some topics taking up several two hour time blocks. Day one of ...

Review by Toronto Toker for Dankr.ca.   Gen X Overview: Gen X is a vape pen that combines distillate from Flavour Savers and cannabis derived terpenes from Trinity Terpenes. The result is a potent, flavourful, discrete product you can take anywhere you want. Accessing Gen X: The Gen X vape pens are kind of hard to find in Toronto dispensaries, ...

Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift News An injunction filed by the City of Hamilton that aimed to force the closure of Hamilton Village Dispensary was recently put on hold by the Ontario Superior Court, allowing the dispensary to remain in operation pending a full hearing on Health Canada’s current mail order system. Previous to the injunction, Hamilton Village Dispensary operated ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Lift News An employee of Nova Scotia’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal says she has filed a claim with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Tribunal claiming that she has been discriminated against because of the medical cannabis she uses for a hereditary connective tissue disorder. Sarah Benoit, who has worked at the Department of Transportation ...

Article by High! Canada Strainprint™ Technologies Ltd. Announces partnership with Emblem Cannabis Corp. to create a licenced version of the Strainprint Medical Cannabis Research App Toronto, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 – Strainprint Technologies Ltd. (“Strainprint”) — the leader in cannabis patient and strain eficacy data — is excited to announce the launch of the first ever co-branded version of its ...

Article by Amanda Siebert, The Georgia Straight This past weekend, local and international cannabis aficionados came out to play at the first-ever High Times Cannabis Cup in Canada. Between two stages of music, a vendor’s expo, a cannabis cup, and multiple seminars, there was plenty to take in over the course of the three-day event, but we spent most of our time perusing the expo ...

Article by Corey Mintz, The Globe and Mail Buying and selling marijuana in Canada is currently a very grey market – almost legal but with a shrug emoji attached. Along this legally nebulous frontier, no one has more of an uphill battle than the makers and distributors of edible products. Caught between the fearful underground economy of yesterday and the optimistic, ...