A Glimpse Of the US Future: Shoppers Drug Mart expands medical cannabis online sales to Canadian East Coast December 3, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments Residents of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. can now make purchases through pharmacy chain Canadian pharmacy giant Shoppers Drug Mart has expanded its online medical cannabis platform to Canada's East Coast. As of today, residents of Nova Scotia, New… Read More→
What ails Canada’s legal cannabis industry? Lack of stores, mostly November 22, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments Weed Me’s growing facility in Pickering, Ont., is so crammed with cannabis lants that a row of pots have to be cranked out of the way before people can walk between them. The growing rooms are perfectly clean and brilliantly… Read More→
Temporary power, humidity and temperature control solve plaguing production problems November 19, 2019 Patrick Heintz Canada, Cultivation 0 Comments Although cannabis is currently a $6 billion a year industry in Canada according to Statistics Canada, only 17% of that demand is being supplied by licensed producers due to a variety of production and regulatory limitations. Â Instead of fulfilling on… Read More→
Compound found in U.S. vaping patients not allowed in Canadian cannabis products: officials November 10, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada, Vaping Crisis 0 Comments OTTAWA - Canadian health officials say a chemical compound discovered in lung fluid taken from 29 patients with a mysterious vaping related illness is not allowed in Canadian cannabis vaping products. Still a spokesperson for Health Canada says the agency,… Read More→
Information Update – Health Canada warns of potential risk of pulmonary illness associated with vaping products October 12, 2019 Press Release Canada, Vaping Crisis 0 Comments OTTAWA, Oct. 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Health Canada is advising Canadians who use vaping products to monitor themselves for symptoms of pulmonary illness (e.g., cough, shortness of breath, chest pain) and to seek medical attention promptly if they have concerns… Read More→
Health Crisis Casts Shadow Over Canadian Debut of Cannabis Vapes October 9, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada, Vaping Crisis 0 Comments The vaping health crisis is happening at a very bad time for the Canadian cannabis industry. With pot stocks already down over 40% since the end of the first quarter, news that an Ontario youth has been diagnosed with Canada’s… Read More→
First case of vaping-related lung disease reported in Quebec October 4, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada, Vaping Crisis 0 Comments Quebec has reported its first case of severe lung disease linked to vaping, the provincial health ministry has confirmed. A man in his 50s who started vaping in April developed chest pain and had trouble breathing. However, the man has… Read More→
Canada Has Sold This Much Marijuana Since Its Legalization Day September 24, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments According to pretty much every Wall Street analyst and independent report, legal marijuana is the next great growth trend. Sales of legal weed have more than tripled on a global basis since 2014 to $10.9 billion, and are on pace to… Read More→
How marijuana is poised for a North American takeover September 10, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada, Mexico 0 Comments The United States is feeling some North American peer pressure to get in on the cannabis boom. Producers in Canada, where marijuana is legal for medicinal and recreational uses, are already planning for a future where pot is a globally… Read More→
Canadians continue to buy cannabis illegally August 20, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments Nearly half of Canadian cannabis consumers purchase their weed illegally, reveals Statistics Canada’s National Cannabis Survey released Thursday (Aug. 15). Ten months after the country legalized recreational marijuana, 42% of those who partake admitted to buying at least some of their… Read More→
How Canada failed to smash the cannabis black market August 1, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments High prices, plain packaging and restrictive licensing conditions have deterred long-term users from switching to the legal market I had forgotten how much I disliked cannabis until I found myself under its influence, in the rain, trying and failing to… Read More→
Here’s How Much Legal Marijuana Canada Has Sold Since Legalizing Adult-Use Cannabis July 25, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments The marijuana industry is expected to be a big-money business, and all eyes are on Canada. That's because Canada became the first industrialized country in the world -- and only the second country overall (behind Uruguay) -- to legalize recreational… Read More→
Canadian Advertising and Promotion Regulations Really Are As Strict As We Thought April 10, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments By Alison Malsbury, Attorney at Harris Bricken I was fortunate to spend a couple of days last week in Vancouver, B.C. attending an American Bar Association Business Law Section meeting, where I joined a panel to discuss the myriad intellectual property… Read More→
Canada’s legalization of marijuana offers a blueprint for the U.S. March 23, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments When Canada legalized cannabis last fall, the country began blazing a trail that the U.S. should one day follow. There’s much to emulate about the Canadian government’s approach to legalization, and a few things to avoid, but having marijuana legalized on such… Read More→
Aurora Cannabis Sales Strong As Losses Swell, Offers ‘First Real Look’ At Canadian Pot Sales Potential February 12, 2019 AggregatedNews Canada, Cannabis Investments 0 Comments Canadian marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis (ACB) reported fiscal second-quarter sales that came in at the high end of an earlier forecast, even as the company's losses ballooned. Aurora Cannabis stock and other marijuana stocks were mostly lower after Monday's close. The company's… Read More→