Items tagged with canada
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| 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 ... |
| Battered cannabis investors still seek bottom after Canopy plunges [15.11.2019] | Canopy Growth Corp. led another mass selloff in the Canadian cannabis space after an earnings miss had investors once again looking for a bottom in t ... |
| Canadian cannabis group appeals to Trudeau to help fix industry challenges [15.11.2019] | An industry group representing Canada’s biggest cannabis companies is appealing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help address some of the industry ... |
| Vancouver pilots new fentanyl-patch program to combat opioid crisis [13.11.2019] | A Vancouver physician is prescribing fentanyl to patients with opioid-use disorder in the latest effort by the medical community to curb overdose dea ... |
| Reasons marijuana legalization seems to be failing [05.11.2019] | When it was first proposed, the concept of marijuana legalization seemed solid enough. Take the world’s most popular illicit substance, establish a t ... |
| All dried up: How Bay Street cashed in on the cannabis frenzy before the carnage [01.11.2019] | The warning signs were there all summer, but it wasn’t until the first business day of September that the reckoning arrived for Canadian cannabis com ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jamaica joins global stock markets in bracing for impact of Cannabis Banking Bill [11.10.2019] | The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) has joined other stock markets across the globe in bracing for the impact of the Cannabis Banking Bill, which is cur ... |
| Canada’s cannabis colonialism [09.10.2019] | Canadian weed companies have their eye on a massive prize: the lucrative medical and adult cannabis markets that are emerging around the world. Much ... |
| 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 ... |
| Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it [29.09.2019] | A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, ... |
| Cannabis industry hopes SAFE Banking Act will spark new wave of growth, especially in U.S. [27.09.2019] | For the first time in history, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to both validate and protect the burgeoning cannabis industry by ... |
| Why pot's illicit history is making it so hard for companies to get patents in the legal cannabis era [13.09.2019] | When Canopy Growth Corp. announced a plan to acquire cannabis researcher Ebbu Inc. for US$330 million last October, it touted the company’s intellect ... |
| One of the largest pharma companies in the world has made a big move in cannabis [12.09.2019] | A subsidiary of NYSE-traded giant Teva Pharmaceuticals has signed a deal with medical cannabis company Canndoc to distribute its GMP products to phar ... |
| 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 ... |
| The reason pot stocks will never recover [30.08.2019] | Marijuana stocks. At a glance, they seem like a disruption investor’s dream... After all, it’s a multi-billion-dollar market opening up after 100 yea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Weed investment boom sparks calls for City pot exchange [20.08.2019] | Canada was once the centre of a gold rush, but now a "green rush" for cannabis is setting stock markets alight. As the world's most progressive count ... |
| 'Growing outside is a dream': Asparagus makes way for cannabis in Canada's fields [07.08.2019] | The amount of outdoor-grown cannabis will make up a small portion of the market this year — less than 10 per cent of the cultivation licenses granted ... |
| The unbearable whiteness of weed: Canada’s booming cannabis industry has a race problem [02.08.2019] | The Canadian cannabis industry is booming. From giant industrial operations such as Canopy Growth to smaller “luxury” cannabis retailers, to an array ... |
| Ottawa unveils new pot-pardon application system [01.08.2019] | Justice Minister David Lametti unveiled unveiled a free and quicker way for Canadians to apply for pardons for simple cannabis possession. The new on ... |
| Victoria's largest cannabis dispensary chain shuttered [01.08.2019] | The largest chain of unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Victoria is no more. Police and provincial cannabis enforcement officers raided the downtown ... |
| 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 ... |
| Auxly Cannabis stock soars as British tobacco giant Imperial takes 20% stake [25.07.2019] | British tobacco company Imperial Brands is getting into the cannabis business with a $123 million investment in Auxly Cannabis, the Canadian company ... |
| U.S. bankers are answering the call of cannabis as deals flow away from Canada [23.07.2019] | After years of Canada dominating the world of marijuana finance, the country’s head start is evaporating and U.S. bankers are increasingly answering ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruce Linton's firing signals it is time for the cannabis industry to start delivering [03.07.2019] | The surprise ousting of the chief executive officer of Canada’s foremost cannabis company is a sign of things to come, some observers warned, as the ... |
| ‘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 ... |
| Freeing craft cannabis from 'grey market' worth $3 billion to B.C: report [26.06.2019] | Health Canada rules for micro-cultivation of recreational cannabis have kept most of the pot sold in B.C. — and the expert growers who made B.C. bud ... |
| Global marijuana trade is still five to seven years off, but Canada aims to be world's cannabis king [17.06.2019] | Cam Battley believes that in the not-too-distant future, his company — one of Canada’s largest licensed producers — will be exporting a “significant ... |
| In the land with a rich history of growing weed, cannabis capitalism is an uneasy fit [05.06.2019] | There’s a hint of disappointment in Courtney Betty’s voice when he talks about the present state of Jamaica’s legal medicinal cannabis regime. “I don ... |
| Asia emerging as new frontier for Canadian cannabis players [30.05.2019] | As cannabis companies eye expansion in European and South American markets, Asia is poised to be a new frontier for some major Canadian pot players. ... |
| Israel's BOL Pharma aims for top of the world's medical marijuana industry [27.05.2019] | It started 85 years ago as a farm on Moshav Ein Iron growing peaches and avocados, but if the plans of the Israeli company Breath of Life come to fru ... |
| The green rush: should you invest in cannabis? [25.05.2019] | How big is the legal cannabis industry? Every time I think I’ve seen the highest estimate along comes another breathless puff piece with an even bigg ... |
| Without safe injection sites, more opioid users will die [23.05.2019] | Ontario is undoubtedly in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. From January to September 2018, an incredible 1,031 Ontarians died of an overdose. ... |
| 'Price-conscious' pot consumers find backyard planting way cheaper [22.05.2019] | The federal Cannabis Act specifies that each household can cultivate up to four plants — either indoors or out. Manitoba and Quebec have opted to pro ... |
| 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 legalization must include cannabis equity [14.05.2019] | Canada’s federal government is currently working to pass a bill that would provide pardons for people convicted of minor cannabis possession. With a ... |
| Through all the smoke, the cannabis industry needs to develop a bigger vision [10.05.2019] | The cannabis industry can build a better and regenerative culture, rather than falling into the same old tired and destructive human and corporate pa ... |
| Cannabis can be grown outdoors for pennies on the dollar. So why is hardly anyone doing it? [09.05.2019] | Cannabis companies have spent the early days of the legal recreational cannabis era building massive growing facilities, but the chief executive of 4 ... |
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