Items tagged with canada
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| 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 ... |
| 'So much sadness': more British Columbians dying from overdoses than Covid [28.08.2020] | A growing number of drug policy experts, users and advocates argue that dramatically expanding access to pharmaceutical-grade heroin is the only mean ... |
| Cannabis research database shows how U.S. funding focuses on harms of the drug [27.08.2020] | A new analysis of cannabis research funding in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has found that $1.56 billion was directed to the top ... |
| Expand safe supply options for people who use drugs, Ontario advocates say [27.08.2020] | All levels of government responded quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic, and harm reduction advocates are wondering why the same hasn't happened for the ... |
| Federal prosecutors told to avoid drug possession charges when possible in new directive [19.08.2020] | Federal lawyers are being asked to avoid prosecuting simple drug possession cases unless major public safety concerns are at play — a move that comes ... |
| Why the Drug User Liberation Front gave out free, checked drugs in Vancouver [11.08.2020] | The Drug User Liberation Front, a Vancouver-based activist group, made a serious statement on June 23. During a protest in the city’s Downtown Eastsi ... |
| Canopy Growth CEO’s partial-year compensation tops CA$45 million [11.08.2020] | Canopy Growth’s chief executive earned 1,042 times more than the median compensation for the cannabis producer’s other employees in fiscal 2020. The ... |
| Just 257 pardons granted for pot possession in program's 1st year [09.08.2020] | It has been one year since the government launched a program offering Canadians with a criminal record for simple pot possession a fast, free pardon ... |
| ‘Does anyone care?’: B.C. overdose deaths hit record high for second consecutive month [17.07.2020] | This time, at least 175 people died. The victims include a soccer goalie who had just celebrated his 26th birthday, a cheerful young volunteer at an ... |
| Police chiefs call on federal government to decriminalize possession of illicit drugs for personal use [09.07.2020] | The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is calling on federal lawmakers to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs for pe ... |
| Thousands more pot shops needed to end illicit market: Fire & Flower CEO [06.07.2020] | Canada needs to open as many as 4,000 cannabis stores, more than triple the current number of licensed outlets, if policymakers want to eliminate the ... |
| Supervised consumption sites save Alberta money: University of Calgary study [25.06.2020] | A study from the University of Calgary has concluded the Calgary supervised consumption site is saving the province money. The study looked at the co ... |
| Drug users call for safe supply of heroin and cocaine, and show how it’s done [23.06.2020] | A new drug-user advocacy group in Vancouver says the safe supply of prescription narcotics must include pharmaceutical-grade heroin and cocaine and — ... |
| B.C. records highest number of fatal overdoses in a single month, with 170 deaths [11.06.2020] | The BC Coroners Service said 170 people died of an illicit drug overdose in May, the highest total ever recorded for a single month in provincial his ... |
| Cannabis companies are finding it tougher than ever to navigate the market [02.06.2020] | Some of the biggest cannabis players when legalization took effect 20 months ago have successfully held on to their dominant positions, despite a yea ... |
| As cannabis market softens, some investors pulling back [24.05.2020] | Aurora, a Canadian listed cannabis company, has sold its Jamaica asset for less than its CDN$4.5 million valuation in order to get cash. “The compan ... |
| B.C. moves to 'safe supply' as overdose deaths spike during COVID-19 pandemic [12.05.2020] | The new guidelines were announced in late March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — concerns about the drug supply becoming even further adulterat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Canada’s Safe-Supply vending machines project is even more important now [05.05.2020] | Due to the increase in opioid overdoses, British Columbia declared a public health emergency in 2016. Fentanyl was in town, contributing to thousands ... |
| 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 ... |
| Advocates call safe drug supply a victory but worry about logistics in pandemic [06.04.2020] | Advocates say it took a pandemic for steps forward in the call for a safe supply of drugs for people dealing with substance use problems and there’s ... |
| Cannabis bankruptcies start to roll in as pandemic halts financing [06.04.2020] | The cannabis bankruptcy filings are starting to roll in. Already plagued by a tough regulatory environment, disappointing sales and capital markets t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Missed earnings, misdirection put Canadian cannabis executives in hot seat [01.04.2020] | The exodus of cannabis executives in Canada is in full swing after their companies raked up collective net losses exceeding CA$6 billion ($4.4 billio ... |
| B.C. releases plan to provide safe supply of drugs during COVID-19 pandemic [26.03.2020] | The provincial government says safe prescription drugs will be provided to people who use substances amid fears the illegal drug supply is becoming i ... |
| Big cannabis in the UK [18.03.2020] | The BMJ has uncovered links between companies, campaign groups and individuals lobbying for wider patient access to cannabis for medical use and a pa ... |
| '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 ... |
| Everyone scared of legal weed was freaking out over nothing: report [19.02.2020] | Despite concerns that legalizing weed would lead to all hell breaking loose, most things have remained the same—and teens are reporting consuming les ... |
| Opioid vending machine opens in Vancouver [17.02.2020] | A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the Canadian city’s overdose crisis. The MySafe projec ... |
| FP Dealmakers: ‘There are going to be bankruptcies' [30.01.2020] | The one thing Bay Street’s top cannabis bankers are all in agreement about is how difficult it has become for the pot sector to raise money over the ... |
| Illicit pot market still robust as prices beat legal sources: StatsCan [23.01.2020] | The difference between cannabis prices on the illicit and legal markets in the fourth quarter of last year widened slightly from the prior three-mont ... |
| Cannabis companies could go bust in 2020, industry insiders predict [21.01.2020] | What a difference a year makes. Around this time in 2019, the cannabis sector was booming. Investors wanted in and stock prices were skyrocketing. To ... |
| Major Canadian pot companies facing proposed class-action lawsuits in the U.S. [19.01.2020] | Some of Canada's biggest cannabis producers are facing proposed class-action lawsuits in the United States after investors were hit with steep financ ... |
| Why overdose deaths have fallen here - despite more overdose [14.01.2020] | Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times every day, an operator answers o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Foreign assets could be next on the block for cash-hungry cannabis companies [10.01.2020] | Two years ago, Canadian cannabis companies were racing to scoop up international assets, from swaths of fertile land in southern Africa to cultivatio ... |
| Tainted drugs are fuelling Thunder Bay's opioid deaths, say advocates. They want a safe supply to fight it [08.01.2020] | Inside the only supervised injection site in Thunder Bay, Ont., nurse practitioner Josh Fraser has reversed so many opioid overdoses that he says the ... |
| 'There's just no money coming in': Cannabis sector bracing for wave of insolvencies in 2020 [31.12.2019] | Cannabis industry insiders are bracing for a slew of bankruptcies in the coming year as small and medium-sized companies low on cash struggle to rais ... |
| 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 ... |
| Canada’s opioid crisis: The people and communities fighting for change and finding solutions [23.12.2019] | The drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in Canada, with no communities spared. Now, many are banding together to speak up and find solutions. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Canada's cannabis policy makes it an international rebel on drug treaties [20.12.2019] | While many Canadians have focused on the supply problems and overly optimistic business projections that have marred Ottawa's marijuana legalization ... |
| Peak pot? Thick haze dulls hype around cannabis startups [16.12.2019] | The hype around cannabis startups in recent years intoxicated many investors. But poor balance sheets and plummeting share prices has made the comedo ... |
| 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 ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System [29.11.2019] | There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Re ... |
| Could cannabis be a 'silver bullet' in the fight against the opioid crisis? [24.11.2019] | A new study suggests cannabis could be a safer and more effective substitute for opioids in the treatment of chronic pain, but can it help fight the ... |
| 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 ... |
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