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In the first few weeks following the legalization of adult use recreational cannabis in Canada, the industry has come under fire for what many consumers feel is an excessive, even shocking, amount of packaging.
You’ve all heard the voice—at once authoritative and passive, weaving every soothing syllable into an epic yarn. It’s guided you through forbidding prisons, alien invasions, and the icy plains of Antarctica. That the voice is attached to an equally...
Marijuana initiatives appeared on ballots in four states in the midterm elections. In Michigan and North Dakota, initiatives gave voters the opportunity to legalize marijuana for recreational use. In Missouri and Utah, voters chose whether to allow people who are sick...
OTTAWA — The Canada Post rotating strikes have hit the country’s largest processing centre in Toronto for a second time in three weeks as workers in 11 other southern Ontario communities walked off the job just after midnight. The Canadian...
The names, shipping addresses, and order dates of more than 4,500 Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) customers were exposed after an unauthorized individual accessed the database of the Canada Post postal service on November 1. The next day, the CEO...
It’s officially lights, camera, cannabis for legendary filmmaker-turned-winemaker-turned-hotelier Francis Ford Coppola. Following in the footsteps of Constellation Brands, which owns multiple major vineyards in the area and announced a $4 billion minority investment in Canopy Growth, Coppola’s new venture is a pursuit...
Alberta hemp farmers are betting that cannabis legalization will be a windfall for their industry, with some going so far as to draw comparisons between the distinctive jagged-leafed plant and one of Canada’s biggest agricultural success stories. “This will be...
Over the past two decades, the percentage of U.S. women who say they've smoked or drank during a pregnancy has fallen, but the percentage who say they've used marijuana has nearly doubled, a new report finds. Between 2002 and 2016, the percentage of...
Lorenze Lanier, 32, spent his first decade as an adult in and out of prison for non-violent cannabis convictions. “I was 18. I didn’t know what to do, so I started selling drugs,” he said. He was living in...
With just weeks to go before legalization, the Vancouver Police Board approved on Wednesday a set of regulations for officers’ use of cannabis. As per recommendations laid out in an August report by the Vancouver Police Department, the board rejected...