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B.C. toxic drug deaths ‘largely preventable,’ coroner says, amid push for expanded safer supply access [01.11.2023] The BC Coroners Service is urging the province to “immediately pursue” expanded access to safer supply as a new report on toxic drug deaths finds man ...
Nurses condemn the arrests of safe supply providers [31.10.2023] With drug poisoning (overdose) now the leading cause of death in British Columbia, there remains an urgent need to invest in and scale up safe supply ...
DULF organizers arrested for operating safe drug compassion club [26.10.2023] Vancouver police have arrested drug policy activists Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum after executing search warrants on the Drug User Liberation Front of ...
A tale of two cannabis legalization experiments [17.10.2023] It’s been five years since the Canadian government legalized and regulated non-medical cannabis cultivation, commerce, and consumption. California is ...
The evidence shows that safer supply drug programs work [12.10.2023] The mounting moral panic against safer supply and other harm reduction interventions to counter the toxic drug crisis is not based in evidence. The r ...
5 years of legal cannabis: fewer charges, many hospitalizations and more than a few questions [10.10.2023] When Canada legalized the use of cannabis in October 2018 after decades of prohibition, the goals were to improve safety and public health as well as ...
Cannabis in Canada: Debunking myths about the real impacts of legalization [09.10.2023] Before Canada legalized recreational cannabis in October 2018, there was considerable debate about its potential effects. Some predicted it would tri ...
Canadian marijuana entrepreneurs shift focus to ‘micro’ licenses [17.07.2023] Cannabis entrepreneurs in Canada are increasingly turning to smaller micro-cultivation facilities to manage costs and produce higher-quality marijuan ...
Canada’s unsold cannabis inventory balloons to 1.5 billion grams [06.06.2023] Business failures and consolidation failed to stop Canada’s stockpile of unsold cannabis from reaching a new high in the final quarter of 2022, the l ...
Thailand’s cannabis sellers say US growers are eating their lunch [08.05.2023] Nearly a year after Thailand decriminalised cannabis amid promises of an economic bonanza, Thai growers and sellers say they are being undercut by il ...
Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] In its report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ...
Jamaican ganja farmers outraged after licence granted to import Canadian herb [26.02.2023] Some local ganja farmers are fuming over reports that a licence has been granted to a company to import Canadian cannabis into Jamaica. Speaking insi ...
Canadian wholesale cannabis prices are off more than 40% in 2022 [15.02.2023] Canadian cannabis wholesale prices tumbled more than 40% last year as companies continued to work through stubborn supply gluts and struggling cultiv ...
Cannabis producer Canopy cutting 800 jobs, closing flagship Canadian facility [09.02.2023] Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth said it is closing its flagship cultivation facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario, and cutting more than a third ...
Canadian province experiments with decriminalising hard drugs [31.01.2023] Adults can possess up to 2.5g of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and morphine. Canada's federal government granted the request by the west ...
This guy plans to open a store that sells heroin, meth, and crack [06.01.2023] A Vancouver man is planning to open what would be Canada’s first store that sells heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA, and other drugs as a way to reduce the ...
Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? [23.10.2022] Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. It’s a crisis that has been blamed on a wa ...
Could Germany’s impending cannabis legalization prop up Canada’s flagging producers? [18.09.2022] First-mover advantage: It’s a phrase long used by Canadian cannabis companies that have spent billions of dollars to accelerate their international s ...
Over 10,000 people in B.C. have died due to toxic drugs since health emergency was declared in 2016: coroner [16.08.2022] More than 140 people died from illicit drug toxicity across B.C. during the month of June, the provincial coroners' service says, pushing the total n ...
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could see their drug possession records disappear [04.07.2022] Canadians with criminal records for drug possession will see them effectively vanish within two years after the government’s criminal justice reform ...
Decriminalization a good step, but safe supply key: chief coroner [02.06.2022] To stop toxic-drug deaths, governments must provide a safe supply of drugs with the same urgency that they provided people with COVID vaccines, says ...
Small-scale possession of illicit drugs will be decriminalized in B.C. starting next year: Ottawa [31.05.2022] Adults in British Columbia will be allowed to possess small amounts of some illicit drugs starting next year, the federal government announced — a mo ...
DULF keeps distributing checked drugs as Health Canada flags denial [05.05.2022] On May 4 in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) distributed 3.5 grams each of fentanyl-free heroin, cocaine and meth ...
Why cannabis prices are plunging – unlike just about everything else [02.05.2022] As Canadians deal with the highest inflation in decades and broadening price hikes, one industry remains locked in a lengthy trend of discounting and ...
New program sells regulated fentanyl to help prevent overdoses from illicit supply in Vancouver [07.04.2022] A Vancouver social services organization has launched a program to sell pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl to drug users who would otherwise purchase toxi ...
Cannabis companies facing 'crossroads' selling off stores, farms and warehouses [13.01.2022] Cannabis companies are selling off growing facilities, stores and warehouses as they try to better align their offerings with demand. Industry observ ...
The pros, cons and unknowns of legal cannabis in Canada 3 years later [24.10.2021] The legalization of cannabis in Canada just had its third anniversary, which means it's time for the federal government to review and possibly tweak ...
Vancouver's chief medical officer recommends compassion club model to reduce illicit drug deaths [22.10.2021] Vancouver's head doctor said more headway needs to be made on the opioid crisis in British Columbia and one way to stop people from dying sooner rath ...
A roundup of countries that permit recreational cannabis [15.10.2021] Marijuana may be an issue of easy agreement in the ongoing coalition talks between Germany's leading parties. Despite numerous points of contention, ...
Three years post-legalization, Canada's cannabis industry ready for a reset [15.10.2021] Three years after Canada legalized cannabis, the industry appears ready for a reset. When midnight struck on Oct. 17, 2018, Canada became the first d ...
Ottawa must act fast on safe drug supply as tainted-drug deaths continue daily: advocates [11.10.2021] Downtown Eastside residents at high risk of overdose now have Vancouver’s support to get untainted drugs, but the federal government has the final sa ...
Despite layoffs and losses, cannabis CEOs awarded millions in bonuses [11.10.2021] Despite stagnant revenue, layoffs, facility closings and big losses, the top executives of some of the largest cannabis companies in Canada were awar ...
Cocaine, heroin and meth buyers' club gets Vancouver's approval to secure a safe supply [07.10.2021] The City of Vancouver voted unanimously in favour of supporting a peer-led program that would help get a safe supply of drugs to individuals at high ...
Drug decriminalization movement gaining momentum in Canada as overdose deaths surge [29.09.2021] As overdose deaths keep surging in Canada, the movement to decriminalize illicit drugs is gaining steam, with one of the country's largest mental hea ...
Stand for craft: How Canada’s craft cannabis cultivators are pushing for tax reform [29.09.2021] It’s been just three short years since cannabis was legalized in Canada, but it’s already clear the nation’s exorbitant taxation on cannabis cultivat ...
We should hand out free heroin to drug users [26.08.2021] Let’s give out heroin, for free, to anyone who wants it. This is not a provocation meant to make you gasp or to elicit angry clicks—rather, it’s a pr ...
This overdose awareness day, activists will again hand out safe drugs [24.08.2021] In the midst of a federal election campaign, a group of activists plan to again hand out tested, untainted heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine in a p ...
What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? [05.08.2021] Back in 2018, during those months before Canada legalized recreational cannabis, things were good for the pot industry. Companies were being hyped as ...
Canadian cannabis producers have sold less than 20% of output since adult-use legalization [28.07.2021] Cannabis producers in Canada have sold less than 20% of their production since the country launched adult-use sales in October 2018, according to an ...
After Aphria deal, the new Tilray eyes transformation into a global cannabis brands giant [03.05.2021] Tilray Inc. shareholders approved the merger with Aphria Inc., creating a cannabis powerhouse that’s both the largest medical marijuana company in Eu ...
After ‘Green Rush,’ Canada’s legal pot suppliers are stumbling [18.04.2021] When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s legalized marijuana in 2018, a primary goal was to create a more equitable justice system — not a m ...
This cannabis giant has European targets in its sights ahead of U.S. legalization frenzy, CEO says [12.04.2021] Cannabis deals in Europe will help pot giant Aphria build up a war chest ahead of an expected frenzy of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. High-mar ...
Safe drug supply program still not reaching enough people in B.C., say advocates [26.03.2021] It's been a year since the province rushed to create new guidelines allowing doctors to prescribe hydromorphone to patients with opioid use disorders ...
A tale of two public health crises — science is being used to stem coronavirus but not opioid deaths [13.03.2021] As one public health emergency sees policymakers around the world turn to the best available science to stem its tide, another deadly crisis rages on ...
BAT looks beyond tobacco to Canadian marijuana [11.03.2021] British American Tobacco said it will buy a nearly 20% stake in Canada-based cannabis producer Organigram for about 126 million pounds ($175.8 millio ...
Doctors call for safer cocaine supply [03.03.2021] As drug toxicity deaths and overdoses in Canada continue to soar to unprecedented levels due to the increasingly volatile illicit market, advocates a ...
As BC’s overdose crisis deepens, Province defends efforts [02.03.2021] At least 165 more British Columbians died of illicit drug overdoses in the first month of 2021, more than double the number of deaths recorded last J ...
B.C. asks federal government for exemption to decriminalize illicit drugs [11.02.2021] British Columbia is asking the federal government to grant the province an exemption under federal law to decriminalize the possession of small amoun ...
Legal recreational cannabis sales in Canada outstrip illicit spending for first time [04.02.2021] Sales of regulated adult-use cannabis in Canada overtook illegal transactions for the first time in the third quarter of 2020, according to new Stati ...
After blockbuster Aphria-Tilray merger, world’s largest cannabis company eyes U.S. market [18.12.2020] Tilray and Aphria, two of the biggest marijuana companies in Canada, announced plans to merge and create the world’s largest cannabis outfit. With ex ...

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