Article by Angela Stelmakowich, Growth Op Brazilian researchers have found that using THC-rich cannabis oil can help to ease the symptoms and enhance the quality of life of fibromyalgia patients. Being one of the most common chronic pain syndromes, fibromyalgia affects more women than men and is characterized by musculoskeletal pain, extreme fatigue and sleep and/or mood disorders. In Brazil, ...

Article by Sarah Leamon, Cannabis Life Network Vancouver has made a big step forward in the possible decriminalization of drugs with Vancouver‘s Mayor decriminalization plan. Last week, Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart announced the cities intention to seek leave from the federal government to approve a plan to decriminalize simple possession of illicit drugs within city limits.  Stewart described these types of offenses as a health ...

Article by Gord Howard, St Catharines Standard A notice taped to a papered-over window in a closed-up coffee shop caught Calvin Poon’s eye recently. It told him a cannabis store is being planned 20 metres from his front door. “We’re pretty shocked,” said Poon, who lives on Pelham Road in St. Catharines. “It’s a residential area, right beside it there ...

Article by David George-Cosh, BNN Bloomberg Ontario will allow cannabis retailers to provide curbside pickup and delivery services in regions impacted by upcoming provincial lockdowns, the province’s attorney general said Friday. Cannabis retailers were briefly allowed to provide delivery services in April during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that was rescinded three months later. However, with Toronto and Peel Regions ...

Article by Debra Borchardt, Green Market Report The number of cases of COVID-19 has spiked in the province of Ontario causing new lockdown orders. It was reported that more than 1,400 new coronavirus cases had been recorded in Ontario on Friday. Toronto has been the hot zone for the latest outbreak as the city broke its record for new infections ...

Article by Cision Newswire Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. (“FFHC”) (TSX: FAF) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Fire & Flower Inc. (“Fire & Flower” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce that its stores will once again offer free best-in-class home delivery and curbside pick-up to safely and responsibly service its customers during the newly-mandated Toronto and Peel region lockdown in the Province of Ontario. Beginning Monday, November ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, St. Thomas Times-Journal A former employee at a Southwestern Ontario pot producer alerted a suspended mutual fund dealer about the company’s expansion plans before they were made public, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) alleges. Taylor Carr, a former production worker at WeedMD’s Aylmer operation, told Trevor Rosborough, a suspended mutual fund dealer, on Nov. 10, 2017, ...

Article by Sam Riches, Growth Op Researchers from Brock University and the University of Waterloo in Ontario have published insight into whether or not the benefits provided by physical activity could reduce cannabis-associated mental health changes. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology,the research suggests that exercising may reduce depressive symptoms among youth who are frequent cannabis consumers. “Physical ...

Article by New Cannabis Ventures Statistics Canada released September retail sales for the country this morning, with cannabis sales growth slowing sequentially off of a revised higher August level but accelerating annual growth to 108.5%. Sales of C$256.3 million grew 1.8% from August. Hifyre IQ had forecast sales of $261 million based upon its data.  The data analytics provider had estimated October growth to ...

Article by Stoney Creek News Cannabis retailer, The Hunny Pot, is holding a coat drive for the months of November and December. The licensed retailer has six locations in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas, including a store at 40 Centennial Pkwy. North. Donations in the Hamilton and Halton areas will benefit Good Shepherd Centres, while Toronto-area donations will support Covenant ...