Items tagged with canada and regulation
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Medical marijuana grow licences exploited by criminals to sell weed on the illegal market, police say [19.11.2020] | A lack of oversight into who is growing medical cannabis and how much is being grown is allowing criminals to sell pot on the illegal market, accordi ... |
| Marijuana use among teens down 2 years after legalization [29.10.2020] | Two years after the sale of marijuana was legalized in Canada, and researchers have yet to see the feared increase in use, says Michael Boudreau, a c ... |
| Mexico, plagued by cartel wars, on cusp of legal cannabis 'green rush' [01.10.2020] | Senate majority leader Ricardo Monreal expects a law to be passed before December for recreational use of the drug, allowing regulated private firms ... |
| BC’s grey market is thriving [28.08.2020] | Things haven’t been this good in the illicit cannabis industry in British Columbia in many years. Factors such as increased wholesale prices on the b ... |
| Ontario’s legal pot stores celebrate one year in business — but most cannabis users are still buying illegally [06.05.2020] | Canada’s black market of pot is still riding rampant over licensed retailers, a year into what many say continues to be a slow rollout of brick-and-m ... |
| Canopy Growth exits cannabis cultivation on three continents in major international pullback [16.04.2020] | Canopy Growth is ceasing cannabis cultivation in Africa, Canada, Colombia and the United States in a bid to “improve efficiencies” in its global oper ... |
| Stoners cheered when Canada legalised cannabis. How did it go so wrong? [05.04.2020] | Two years on, the Canadian cannabis legalisation experiment hasn’t quite turned out as we reformers had hoped. The black market is still vibrant whil ... |
| 'The legal stuff is garbage': why Canada's cannabis black market keeps thriving [18.03.2020] | Cannabis may be legal in Vancouver but visitors looking to score are likely to run into a seemingly counterintuitive suggestion: try the black market ... |
| The Great Cannabis Crash of 2019 [14.01.2020] | Bad news about the so-called "Green Rush" rolled in slowly at first, picking up steam around the end of last summer. Stocks started to dive. Layoffs ... |
| Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst [29.12.2019] | When Canada legalised marijuana just over a year ago, it seemed like anyone who was anyone wanted to break into the market. The media nicknamed the f ... |
| America’s marijuana growers are the best in the world, but federal laws are keeping them out of global markets [27.12.2019] | After 20 years of experience, legal marijuana growers in the U.S. have a reputation for creating the best product in the world, scientifically grown ... |
| Cannabis : un projet de loi à finaliser en janvier [23.12.2019] | Le ministre de la Santé, Étienne Schneider, est décidé à soumettre courant janvier au Conseil de gouvernement un projet de loi pour légaliser le cann ... |
| What have we learned from one year of cannabis legalization? [16.12.2019] | The first year of legal cannabis sales in Canada did not go smoothly. To be fair, introducing a federally regulated legal supply chain that operates ... |
| ‘B.C. bud’ cannabis still underground, John Horgan hopes to rescue it [02.12.2019] | British Columbia used to supply half of Canada’s marijuana, export it to the United States by the hockey bag, and bring home a bong-full of blue ribb ... |
| Inside the Walmart of weed [23.11.2019] | With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now ... |
| Small-scale outdoor growing is firing up Legalization 2.0 [23.10.2019] | Mark Spear might be a thorn in the side of the Canadian weed industry. Or he may be a heel. He certainly stands out when it comes to gently pissing o ... |
| Demand for illegal cannabis still high, 1 year after legalization [17.10.2019] | One year after the federal government legalized recreational marijuana, 60 per cent of Canadians are still buying the drug on the black market or fro ... |
| How Canada's cannabis legalization is shaping laws elsewhere [17.10.2019] | Ever since Canada became the first major country to legalize marijuana for adults a year ago, other nations have been paying attention. The small Sou ... |
| 'This weed is so much better': Cannabis legalization in B.C. at one year [16.10.2019] | Mike Babins and Maria Petrucci cleared grey-market cannabis from the shelves of their dispensary last year on the eve of federal legalization, uncert ... |
| A year in the weeds: Why the cannabis industry didn't take off the way everyone planned [15.10.2019] | Dozens of legal cannabis producers, backed by billions in investor capital, were expected to put the black market on its heels, launching Canada to t ... |
| Feeling burned: The first year of legal cannabis has been a complete disaster for investors [09.10.2019] | The legalization of cannabis in Canada was supposed to be a catalyst — the most powerful one yet, investors and analysts alike thought — that would l ... |
| The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia [30.09.2019] | In July 2016, the Colombian government enacted Law 1787, which regulates the use of medicinal cannabis and its trade in the country. With this decisi ... |
| Black market pot entered CannTrust facility, flowed into legal market last year: Sources [06.09.2019] | Senior operating staff working at CannTrust Holdings Inc.’s Pelham, Ont. facility late last year brought cannabis seeds from the black market into pr ... |
| A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way [29.08.2019] | Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international t ... |
| Canadian marijuana legalisation has not removed crime: Dutch police lecturer [27.08.2019] | Canada’s decision to legalise cannabis has not resulted in removing organised crime from the chain. Police Academy lecturer Pieter Tops, who visited ... |
| Canada's cannabis industry just beginning to bud [31.07.2019] | Mark Rendell, a business journalists for Canada's second-largest daily, The Globe and Mail, says the decision to legalize cannabis has led to a gold ... |
| How do we eliminate the cannabis black market? License it [10.07.2019] | Given a choice, Canadians prefer to buy illicit weed. Nearly 80 per cent of all sales since legalization are from the “black market” – or more aptly ... |
| Illegal cannabis getting even cheaper, as legal gets costlier, StatsCan says [10.07.2019] | Statistics Canada's quarterly report on cannabis prices suggests the cost chasm between legal and illegal versions of the drug is wide, and getting w ... |
| ‘There’s no opposition now’: how a quiet Canada town became a world leader in growing weed [29.06.2019] | In 2018 Canada became the second country, after Uruguay, to legalise recreational use. By catching the green wave, Canopy Growth’s co-chief executive ... |
| How to legalize every drug [22.05.2019] | As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ... |
| Luxembourg to follow Canada's cannabis example [17.05.2019] | Luxembourg is set to largely follow the example of Canada in legalising the recreational use of cannabis, two ministers said after a field trip to th ... |
| Canada’s statisticians survey potheads [16.05.2019] | Before the new law came into force in October 2018, Statistics Canada started to estimate prices and the size of the illicit market, and to carry out ... |
| Cannabis co-operatives: Can working together preserve small players? [01.05.2019] | Hezekiah Allen believes in small family farms, though he’s biased — he grew up on one. Born in an off-the-grid community of rural Humboldt County, Al ... |
| Canada's legal weed struggles to light up as smokers stick to black market [17.04.2019] | When Melissa, a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, went to one of Canada’s first government cannabis stores, she wasn’t impressed. “You can’t look at ... |
| Jamaica’s cannabis gamble [17.04.2019] | Jamaica is starting to think of cannabis as an opportunity. Uruguay, Canada and ten American states have legalised it for recreational use. Ganja, as ... |
| Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs [01.03.2019] | If New Zealand votes to legalise cannabis in 2020’s binding referendum, we will have a unique opportunity on our hands. Creating a licit market from ... |
| The cannabis black market will control 71 per cent of sales in Canada this year, Scotiabank says [13.02.2019] | A new research note from Scotiabank analysts estimate that the black market will control 71 percent of cannabis sales in Canada in 2019. The logistic ... |
| What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja [11.02.2019] | Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively ... |
| Cannabis co-ops seek to bring small producers, processors into legal market [10.02.2019] | British Columbia may be famous for its bud but some say Canada's new marijuana legalization framework is excluding the small producers with establish ... |
| Why legal cannabis growers can’t compete with the black market — yet [01.02.2019] | Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains. “There’s all kin ... |
| Canada’s cannabis shortage could be over quicker than we thought, researcher says [01.02.2019] | If Canada’s licensed cannabis producers continue ramping up production at their current exponential pace, there will be more than enough pot to meet ... |
| How Canopy Growth became the jolly green giant of cannabis [24.01.2019] | The common wisdom among investors and analysts in the cannabis industry has been that bigger is better. They predict that cannabis will follow the pa ... |
| After legalization: Four things to know about cannabis in Quebec [17.01.2019] | In Quebec — where the product is sold by the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) — legalization has highlighted the province’s thirs ... |
| Legal pot costs almost 50 per cent more than pot bought on the black market: StatCan [09.01.2019] | A legal gram of cannabis in Canada costs nearly 50 per cent more than illicit pot, according to a new analysis of price quotes compiled by Statistics ... |
| Canada legalized pot in October. But its black market is still going strong [05.01.2019] | The legal cannabis stores that opened here last fall still look pristine. Curious customers file in, but the shelves they peruse are often bare. Supp ... |
| Dr Benedikt Fischer: Canada provides lessons on legal cannabis [27.11.2018] | New Zealand is debating its cannabis policy, a process that led to legalisation of cannabis use and supply in Canada just last month. Since the two c ... |
| Pot growers turn to gifting, trading with no legal way to buy cannabis seeds in Canada [27.11.2018] | Cannabis consumers who can’t buy seeds are finding creative ways to grow their own pot. Even though the federal government made it legal on Oct. 17 t ... |
| Cannabis industry says it needs more approved growers to meet Canadian demand [12.11.2018] | More fully-licensed cannabis growers and cultivation space are needed to meet a voracious demand for legal marijuana, a spokesman for the industry sa ... |
| Canada’s message to teenagers: Marijuana is legal now. Please don’t smoke it [11.11.2018] | Canada became the second country to make it legal for adults to buy, grow and consume small amounts of marijuana. But it also made it a crime to give ... |
| Weed woes: Canada struggles to meet huge demand for legal cannabis [04.11.2018] | Two weeks after Canada became the first G20 country to legalize cannabis amid much fanfare, numerous stores – both physical and digital – are struggl ... |
| Pot pioneers who went to jail for the cause now watch legal opportunities pass them by [25.10.2018] | At the outset of legalization, people who defied prohibition in high-profile ways appear to be getting shut out of a burgeoning industry just as the ... |
| Advocates say black market will thrive until small pot growers and sellers are included [17.10.2018] | “It’s not fair to expect the government to deliver everything perfectly Day 1 when this is a huge transition,” said Ian Dawkins, president of the Can ... |
| Cannabis Day 1: How Canada greeted legalization from coast to coast [17.10.2018] | From St. John’s to Vancouver, from Southern Ontario to the Far North, Canada’s nearly century-old prohibition on recreational cannabis lifted on Wedn ... |
| Globe editorial: With legal pot, Canada sets an example for other countries [17.10.2018] | And so, here we go. The recreational use of cannabis is now legal in Canada, making ours only the second country, after tiny Uruguay, to take a leap ... |
| Dazed and confused: Canada cannabis legalization brings complex new laws [16.10.2018] | Canada will this week become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, but as they negotiate a patchwork of new legislation ... |
| Cannabis in Canada: Who wins and who loses under new law [15.10.2018] | Canada is about to become the second nation to fully legalise recreational cannabis. When prohibition comes to an end on 17 October, Canadian adults ... |
| Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? [03.10.2018] | The cannabis industry’s moral challenge is to ensure the groups who have suffered the most under the drug war can participate in the green rush and e ... |
| 'Monsanto of pot': How cannabis firms are seeking to lower growing costs [18.09.2018] | As cannabis producers add to their harvest as Canada prepares to legalize recreational use starting Oct. 17, some companies are already exploring nov ... |
| City launches consultation on four designated cannabis consumption sites [27.08.2018] | With Canada-wide cannabis legalization less than two months away, city hall wants to know how Calgarians feel about four areas it’s proposing as desi ... |
| Ontario will rely on private sector to sell recreational cannabis [13.08.2018] | Premier Doug Ford is giving up Ontario’s monopoly on weed, opening sales of recreational cannabis to private stores by April 1 in a dramatic shift th ... |
| New regulations may spark Canada’s craft cannabis revolution [28.06.2018] | While legalization in Canada is delayed until October 17th, 2018, Canadians are celebrating as micro-licenses are finally coming out, ushering in the ... |
| Marijuana bill inches closer to passage with House vote [18.06.2018] | The bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons — but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from ... |
| Pot legalization battle brewing as government rejects key Senate change [13.06.2018] | The federal government is rejecting several Senate changes to its cannabis legalization bill, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the S ... |
| Goodbye counterculture: what will happen when weed goes corporate? [07.06.2018] | Under the federal government’s new legal regime, for the first time in Canadian history, minors in possession of more than five grams of dried cannab ... |
| Senate approves cannabis legalization bill with dozens of amendments [07.06.2018] | The Senate has approved the Trudeau government’s landmark legislation to lift Canada’s 95-year-old prohibition on recreational cannabis – but with ne ... |
| Pot delivery services could be 'cockroaches' of marijuana legalization, experts say [03.06.2018] | Marijuana businesses are growing as Canada moves toward legalization of recreational pot, creating an increasingly daunting job for those tasked with ... |
| Big cannabis growers urge senators to ban commercial outdoor growing [23.05.2018] | Canada’s medical cannabis industry is making a push in the Senate to ban large-scale outdoor cannabis cultivation. Allan Rewak, the executive directo ... |
| Big opportunities in Europe's cannabis market come with big risks [16.05.2018] | Interest is running very high among cannabis entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on the prospect of an expanded European cannabis market. Europe is h ... |
| In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong [04.05.2018] | On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International T ... |
| The red flags ahead of Canada’s marijuana legalization [23.04.2018] | The central question facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to “legalize, regulate and restrict access to mar ... |
| Marijuana producers enter retail race as legalization looms [11.02.2018] | As the race to produce enough cannabis for the soon-to-be-legal market gets increasingly crowded, licensed producers are setting their sights on the ... |
| Marijuana legalization could be delayed beyond July 1, government officials say [06.02.2018] | Federal officials are predicting the legalization of cannabis will only occur two to three months after Bill C-45 is adopted by Parliament, in order ... |
| Marijuana addiction is real, and teenage users are most at risk [15.01.2018] | Cases of substance-use disorders are exactly what the federal government is hoping to avoid in its push to legalize recreational marijuana, and they ... |
| Investors are delusional when it comes to Canadian marijuana companies [10.01.2018] | As the July deadline for the provinces to legalize marijuana approaches, the stock prices of Canadian publicly-traded weed producers have been on a t ... |
| With legalization ahead, nonprofit’s certification program will test businesses offering pot products [24.12.2017] | Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help de ... |
| A taxing problem: how to price, tax legal weed to stamp out the black market [05.12.2017] | Stamping out the illicit market is one of Ottawa’s major goals as the country approaches a July 2018 deadline for the legalization of recreational ma ... |
| Legalization of marijuana unlikely to kill Canada’s black market right away [04.12.2017] | From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen ... |
| Federal marijuana legislation approved by House of Commons, moves on to Senate [28.11.2017] | The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana by next summer is a step closer. Bill C-45 received final approval Monday in the House of Commons ... |
| Federal government proposes 'micro' cultivation licences for small growers, rolls out public cannabis consultation [21.11.2017] | The federal government has proposed a licensing program that could allow for more of B.C.'s 'micro' producers to be included in the legal mix. Health ... |
| Ready or not, recreational marijuana use is coming to Canada [04.11.2017] | Proposing legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was the easy part for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. With about eight months to g ... |
| Canada government facing resistance from Senate over pot law [03.11.2017] | The Canadian government’s plan to legalize recreational marijuana by next July could be in jeopardy, with opposition brewing among some in the Senate ... |
| Recognized for controversy, Vancouver's former drug czar says the fentanyl crisis requires legalizing heroin [11.10.2017] | “Heroin at your corner store.” That was the title of a speech that Donald MacPherson delivered in acceptance of the 2017 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize ... |
| Will Canada be able to fully legalize and regulate marijuana by July? [05.10.2017] | Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption by next July, but increasin ... |
| Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
| Quebec to set legal marijuana consumption age at 18 [29.09.2017] | The legal age to buy marijuana in Quebec will be 18, in order to prevent young people from buying their pot on the black market, government sources h ... |
| Why marijuana prohibition failed, and how legalization can succeed [24.09.2017] | Why is Canada legalizing marijuana, and why does the move – if done right – make sense? It's all about harm reduction. Smoking marijuana has real hea ... |
| LCBO subsidiary to manage Ontario marijuana sales [08.09.2017] | The Ontario government is launching a monopoly of cannabis stores as a subsidiary of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, a plan private retailers sa ... |
| Is Canada ready for legal marijuana? [24.08.2017] | The Canadian government is expected to legalize recreational marijuana by July 2018, in large part to put an end to the extensive and enduring black ... |
| Canada’s premiers discuss delaying the legalization of marijuana [18.07.2017] | It’s time to take a deep breath and put pot in Canada on the back burner for an extra year, says Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. He’s trying to per ... |
| Provinces diverge on approach to guidelines on legal marijuana [14.05.2017] | Provinces have been protesting the large volume of work and heavy costs they say the Trudeau government has piled on them in its rush to legalize rec ... |
| Early marijuana sales ‘unbelievably high’ after legalization: U.S. consultant [30.04.2017] | A U.S. consultant hired by Ottawa to assess Canada’s eventual recreational pot market says jurisdictions that regulate cannabis should expect “unbeli ... |
| Drug controls are 'absolutely pathetic,' activist says regulation will save lives [25.04.2017] | A Vancouver based drug policy researcher has been working for decades to get the federal government to regulate illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine ... |
| ‘An awful lot of expertise’ [24.04.2017] | Black market marijuana growers should be included in the legal market as they can provide valuable expertise as it evolves, Anne McLellan, chair of t ... |
| Always look on the bright side of legalization [17.04.2017] | I have to say, I’ve been pretty dismayed with the overall response to Bill C-45. While I wasn’t expecting spontaneous mobs of joyous people cheering ... |
| Legalization plan doesn’t include amnesty for past marijuana-convictions: Liberals [17.04.2017] | The federal plan to legalize recreational marijuana does not include the general amnesty for past pot convictions some would like to see, says Public ... |
| Globe editorial: The Liberals begin Canada’s countdown to legal pot [13.04.2017] | The Trudeau government has started off on the right foot down the path to legalization of cannabis. But the next 15 months or so could make or break ... |
| Is this the end of the black market for marijuana? [13.04.2017] | Marijuana was criminalized in Canada in 1923. There was no debate in the House of Commons, just the statement, "There is a new drug in the schedule." ... |
| Canada’s marijuana legalization plan designed to reduce criminal role in market [13.04.2017] | Stating that 94 years of prohibition were an "abject failure," the federal government has tabled long-awaited legislation to legalize marijuana for a ... |
| Liberals table bills to legalize pot, clamp down on impaired driving [13.04.2017] | The Liberal government tabled legislation to end the prohibition on pot, checking off a major promise from the 2015 campaign. The plan comes with two ... |
| Liberals set to table marijuana legislation, but key details need to be resolved [10.04.2017] | The federal government will table a bill to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday that is expected to tightly control the ability of producers ... |
| Marijuana industry faces challenge in gaining Canadians’ trust, survey finds [29.03.2017] | Marijuana stocks may have leapt higher on the news of Ottawa’s plans to legalize the drug by next year, but the industry is facing an uphill battle i ... |
| Pot legalization: Canada doesn’t need another profit-seeking drug industry [28.03.2017] | When Canadians have expressed concerns about upcoming cannabis legalization, the government has assured them that the legal cannabis industry will be ... |
| Ottawa's plans for cannabis legalization may be slowed by provinces [27.03.2017] | Ottawa’s plan to legalize marijuana by next year could hit serious roadblocks across the country, as provinces and territories are expected to have d ... |
| Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018 [26.03.2017] | The Liberal government will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018. CBC News has learned that the leg ... |
| Task-force leader on legalizing marijuana urges prohibition, for now [23.03.2017] | Anne McLellan, head of an official task force that submitted recommendations to Ottawa on how best to legalize cannabis, said police everywhere shoul ... |
| Illegal marijuana shops linked to activists Marc, Jodie Emery raided across Canada [09.03.2017] | Police officers in several Canadian cities raided illegal marijuana dispensaries linked to activists Marc and Jodie Emery, charging them and several ... |
| Marijuana stocks drop as Trudeau’s pot czar says Canada won’t rush into legalization [07.03.2017] | As investors flock to Canada’s burgeoning marijuana sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is signaling recreational pot sales aren’t imm ... |
| Cities have right to regulate marijuana dispensaries: B.C. Supreme Court [16.02.2017] | Cities have the right to deny business licences to illegal marijuana dispensaries and to prohibit the cultivation or sale of marijuana through their ... |
| Canada’s marijuana industry needs innovation to thrive, not protection [11.01.2017] | The Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation did not say, “create a marijuana marketing board.” Yet its recommendations would, if implemen ... |
| Pot task force recommends legal cannabis sales be limited to users over 18 [13.12.2016] | The task force appointed by the federal government to study the legalization of marijuana said cannabis sales should be restricted to those 18 and ol ... |
| Trudeau’s bait and switch on legalization? [04.12.2016] | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently expressed frustration around the current cannabis landscape, explaining, “Until we have brought in the propose ... |
| Marijuana task force submits report outlining framework for legal system [29.11.2016] | Canada’s new legal marijuana regime is expected to feature a mishmash of provincial rules and a heavily regulated production system that will initial ... |
| Pot tax would reduce profits, allow black market to thrive: report [31.10.2016] | The parliamentary budget watchdog says Ottawa stands to generate hundreds of millions of dollars – not billions – from the first year of recreational ... |
| Panel: Advances towards Cannabis Regulation [04.10.2016] | In spite of the prejudices and legal obstacles that persist in relation to a legal market for cannabis, it is undeniable that a strong movement towar ... |
| Canada faces choice on international drug treaties over legalized pot [02.10.2016] | As Canada moves forward with its plan to legalize marijuana, government officials have at least one international conundrum to sort out: what to do a ... |
| Health Canada to allow safety testing of medical marijuana [10.08.2016] | Health Canada is easing its prohibitions against safety testing of medical marijuana, which will allow registered growers and patients to have the pr ... |
| Most of Canada’s marijuana growers are otherwise law-abiding: advocates [08.08.2016] | Contrary to RCMP wisdom, organized crime groups play a relatively small role in Canada’s underground cannabis trade. The majority of people behind il ... |
| Legalize pot, but bring in quality controls [30.07.2016] | The take-home message from a Globe and Mail investigation that tested pot purchased in dispensaries for chemicals, is a lack of quality controls on m ... |
| Marijuana task force faces ‘fascinating journey’ in crafting legal framework [17.07.2016] | The government called on former Liberal cabinet minister Anne McLellan to lead a nine-member task force on marijuana legalization and regulation. She ... |
| The goal of legalized cannabis shouldn’t be corporate gold [15.07.2016] | As the government crawls towards legalization with the appointment of a task force, my tempered enthusiasm has started to wane, replaced by dismay. I ... |
| The goal of legalized cannabis shouldn’t be corporate gold [14.07.2016] | Canada has a tradition of overregulation and one can already sense that the government is poised to place a myriad of restrictions on production and ... |
| Ottawa vows strict regulation of recreational marijuana [29.06.2016] | The federal government is moving toward a restrictive market for recreational marijuana, vowing to impose potency limits, controls on advertising, an ... |
| NDP demands immediate decriminalization of marijuana [12.06.2016] | The federal New Democrats are putting forward a motion in Parliament to pressure the Liberal government to decriminalize pot before it is legalized. ... |
| Justin Trudeau may have made the best case for legal pot ever [10.06.2016] | Trudeau's argument for legalization is concerned less with creating benefits, and more with reducing harms. He starts from the same place that many l ... |
| New hire is a signal Ottawa is taking a strict line on recreational marijuana [01.06.2016] | The Liberal government is sending further signals it plans a strict regime for recreational marijuana by hiring former public safety minister Anne Mc ... |
| Why Canada’s cities aren’t cracking down on marijuana stores [04.05.2016] | Canada’s municipalities are in a tough position when it comes to pot. Faced with a previous federal government that had no interest in legalizing mar ... |
| Lack of progress and transparency at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs [26.04.2016] | The first meeting of UNGASS since 1998 was supposed to be a game changer in prodding the lumbering and often draconian UN drug policy regime into ser ... |
| Rethinking the global war on drugs [25.04.2016] | The U.S. is in the untenable position of violating the existing treaties — now that four states have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Th ... |
| Canada on drugs at the UN: Standing up for a long-overdue policy shift [12.04.2016] | The applause persisted until the chair of the session eventually gavelled it to an end. The occasion? Canada’s statement at the UN Commission on Narc ... |
| Canadian official causes stir with ‘progressive’ speech at UN narcotics conference [15.03.2016] | The Liberal government used its first foray into the global anti-narcotics arena this week to signal a clear shift away from the war-on-drugs philoso ... |
| Health Canada flagged nine key considerations in legalizing marijuana [04.03.2016] | As the Liberal government began moving on its commitment to legalize marijuana, Health Canada flagged nine key considerations – from health risks and ... |
| Majority of Canadians agree pot should be legal: poll [29.02.2016] | A strong majority in Canada agree with the Liberal government’s plan to legalize marijuana, and half of them feel users should be able to grow their ... |
| Legal pot has its benefits, but little economic impact [17.02.2016] | Each week, there seems to be a new headline declaring that piles of cash will soon flood into the economy once legalization comes into effect. The la ... |
| Liberals’ vow to legalize pot creating chaos, police say [06.02.2016] | Canada’s frontline officers and police chiefs are alarmed by the growing chaos in the marijuana industry, saying the Liberal Party’s promise to event ... |
| Canada’s medical pot producers set sights on recreational users [28.01.2016] | Canada’s producers of medical marijuana are sitting on a seven-tonne stash of weed, with the inventory steadily growing as supply exceeds demand in t ... |
| Tax revenues from legal pot could reach $5-billion a year: economist [27.01.2016] | A new report from CIBC World Markets says Canada’s federal and provincial governments could reap as much as $5-billion annually in tax revenues from ... |
| Legalizing marijuana will come with strict controls, MP Bill Blair says [11.01.2016] | Liberal MP Bill Blair wants to make it clear the growth and sale of legal marijuana in Canada will not be a free-for-all. In an interview, the chief ... |
| Ex-colleague will lobby MP Bill Blair to restrict field of pot growers [10.01.2016] | A former high-ranking colleague and friend of MP Bill Blair, the Liberal government's point man on marijuana legalization, will lobby the ex-Toronto ... |
| The right (and wrong) way to legalize cannabis [22.12.2015] | The Trudeau government’s proposal to legalize cannabis will no doubt generate heated debate. The question of how to legalize is likely to receive les ... |
| Justin Trudeau and the cannabis factory [18.12.2015] | Many consumers obtain their marijuana through storefront "dispensaries", which have sprung up across Canada, encouraged by liberalisation in the Unit ... |
| Cannabis regulation is coming to Canada — here are five things to know [15.12.2015] | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises to regulate recreational cannabis use in Canada. From the inclusion of cannabis policy reform in the speech fr ... |
| Canada’s next big move? It may be legalizing pot [05.12.2015] | The new Liberal government has promised to act quickly to legalize marijuana for general use, which would make Canada the first Group of 20 country t ... |
| Majority approve of legalized, regulated, taxed cannabis [07.11.2015] | In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1256 Canadian voters, the majority, close to 6-in-10, approve of the Liberal gov ... |
| Marijuana legalization urged for open debate [11.10.2015] | Marijuana has emerged as an issue in the federal election campaign in Canada. The Liberals promise legalization, the NDP pledge at least to decrimina ... |
| Vancouver’s pot bylaw ignores major concerns [28.06.2015] | Vancouver City Council and the police department have clouded the national debate on cannabis with their approach to pot and are pumping money into t ... |
| Vancouver to weed out illegal marijuana dispensaries [24.06.2015] | Vancouver changed the landscape of Canada’s cannabis culture, becoming the first city in Canada to regulate illegal marijuana dispensaries. The actio ... |
| Vancouver becomes first Canadian city to regulate growing marijuana market [23.06.2015] | Vancouver has approved new rules to license and regulate illegal marijuana stores, making it the first city in Canada to attempt to control the burge ... |
| High hopes: Legalized pot is on the way [29.01.2015] | Moving from illicit to licit requires regulations that allow enough of a legal market to dry out the black one – ideally, while bringing in much-need ... |
| Canadian lawyers scent profit as medical marijuana industry prepares to go legit [06.01.2015] | Since 2001, Canada has allowed patients to grow their own marijuana or designate a grower to do so on their behalf, but a policy change established t ... |
| Canada's 'Prince of Pot' to be released from U.S. prison [06.07.2014] | When the poster child for marijuana legalization is released from a U.S. prison later this week, he'll be re-entering a world where many of his ideas ... |
| Medical marijuana users can continue to grow their own pot: judge [20.03.2014] | A Federal Court judge granted a temporary injunction to patients who are suing Ottawa because they are concerned about cost and quality of a commerci ... |
| Medical marijuana licences no longer a home-grown option [01.10.2013] | Starting next year, thousands of medical marijuana users will have to dig up their gardens and start buying only from suppliers approved and licensed ... |
| NDP, Green party okay with research trial of marijuana use [02.05.2013] | B.C.’s New Democratic and Green parties say they would not oppose a research trial to evaluate the regulation of adult marijuana use, which would be ... |
| Battle over medical marijuana [11.02.2013] | More than a decade ago, after several court rulings, the federal government was forced to create regulations allowing people with legitimate needs to ... |
| The U.S. drug czar weighs in on Canada’s pot habit [10.02.2013] | Kerlikowske: "I think a patchwork of policies would create real difficulties. We still have federal law that places marijuana as being illegal. The a ... |
| Ontario’s top court upholds country’s marijuana laws in medicinal pot case [31.01.2013] | Canada’s ban on marijuana was effectively upheld when Ontario’s top court struck down the country’s laws related to medicinal pot much to the chagrin ... |
| Legalize pot and reap the benefit from influx of toking tourists: Liberals [26.01.2013] | Canada’s economy could benefit from an influx of toking tourists if weed is legalized, the Liberal Party of Canada says in a new analysis that backs ... |
| We enforced Ottawa’s pot laws. They don’t work [17.01.2013] | It is time to put ideology and politics aside in favour of a level-headed, evidence-based discussion about the failure of marijuana prohibition and t ... |
| Canada could learn from Colorado and Washington on pot [25.12.2012] | The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana represents a seismic shift in public attitudes. This historic reform will onl ... |
| U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud [07.11.2012] | British Columbia’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry could take a “significant” blow now that two U.S. states – including its closest neighbour ... |
| B.C. pot activists push for legalization after Wash. vote [07.11.2012] | Pot advocates in British Columbia (Canada) say now that voters in Washington have passed a law to legalize possession of marijuana, it is time for a ... |
| B.C. favours sensible marijuana policy [05.10.2012] | Last week, delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention voted in support of the decriminalization and taxation of marijuana. This vote wa ... |
| Feds hike danger rating on ecstasy while health officers urge drug policy reform [23.06.2012] | Several top public health officials are proposing a rethinking of current illegal-drug policies they assert spurs on a global problem involving ecsta ... |
| Pure ecstasy can be 'safe' if consumed responsibly: B.C. health officer [13.06.2012] | B.C.'s top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be "safe" when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police in Alberta and Brit ... |
| The OxyContin disaster [24.02.2012] | Who is going to clean up the mess OxyContin has left behind in Ontario? Health Minister Deb Matthews' move to delist the addictive prescription paink ... |
| Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition [28.11.2011] | Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ... |
| Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Canada (LRCUG) [01.09.2011] | More than one in ten adults – and about one in three young adults – report past year cannabis use in Canada. While cannabis use is associated with a ... |
| A good chew or good riddance [15.07.2010] | The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making proc ... |
| Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment [16.08.2009] | In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulatio ... |
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