Pot smokers most happy with private retail model in Ontario August 7, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments Premier Doug Ford and the Ontario Progressive Conservative government have signalled that cannabis will be sold in privately owned stores rather than through the newly created and government-owned Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), with Ontario following the lead of the four… Read More→
Canadian Cannabis Farmers Will Qualify For Some Federal Funding August 1, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments When Canada officially launches its recreational marijuana market later this year, the federal government will provide the nation’s cannabis farmers with some of the same funding opportunities as other green thumb industrialists. Earlier this month, agricultural ministers representing every level of… Read More→
U.S. Marijuana Companies Go Public in Canada July 26, 2018 AggregatedNews Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Canada 0 Comments Green Thumb Industries had a business plan, expertise and plenty of ambition to grow its marijuana business. What the Chicago-based company didn’t have was access to enough capital to make it all happen. So last month, the company with $20… Read More→
CBi2 Capital and 51st Parallel Announce the Creation of LivWell International and a Strategic Equity Investment in GCH, Inc., Securing the Exclusive Canadian Licensing Rights to Willie’s Reserve™ July 24, 2018 Press Release Canada, News & Insights, Press Releases 0 Comments PRESS RELEASE CALGARY, Alberta, July 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Target Capital Inc. d.b.a. CBi2 Capital (“CBi2”) (TSXV:TCI) (CSE:TCI) and 51st Parallel Inc. (“51st Parallel”) are pleased to announce a series of transformational transactions that will ultimately result in the… Read More→
Pot Candies, Vaping Snuffed Out for Now in Canadian Legalization July 19, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 1 Comment Missing segment means continued life for black market, Rules for edibles and other products not due until 2019 A key segment of Canada’s marijuana industry will remain banned for up to a year after the drug becomes legal for recreational use… Read More→
When marijuana is legal in Canada, Americans are expected to flock. But the border, and U.S. law, stands in the way. July 13, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada, Cannabis Tourism 0 Comments Recreational marijuana has been legal here in Washington state since 2014. Adults just a few miles away in Canada also will be able to legally buy and smoke marijuana for pleasure starting in October. But between them stands the U.S.… Read More→
With Legal Marijuana On The Way In Canada, Investors Catch The Buzz July 9, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada, Cannabis Investments 0 Comments CHESTERVILLE, Ontario — Inside garage-sized containers at one end of a cavernous warehouse in a former Nestlé factory south of Ottawa are rows of marijuana plants stacked atop each other, basking in the unearthly glow of grow lights. They belong… Read More→
Canadians can be banned from the US for smoking cannabis July 5, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Approximately 400,000 people cross the US/Canada border every day, and that’s likely to continue after Canada’s cannabis legalization laws are implemented on October 17. Since the new laws have some Canadians confused about how to navigate US travel and cannabis… Read More→
Is Canada’s Marijuana The New Bitcoin? Stocks Surge After Legalization July 2, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada, Cannabis Investments, On the Move 0 Comments As Canada gets ready to implement legal recreational marijuana later this year, the U.S. neighbor’s cannabis stocks have surged and some experts suggest marijuana could be the next Bitcoin. “I believe the incredible tailwinds blowing at legal marijuana’s back make… Read More→
Canada Is About to Inhale the Global Pot Market. Thanks, Jeff Sessions. June 30, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada, On the Move 0 Comments In the dark of a frigid February morning on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada, a convoy of trucks pulled up to the loading docks of a refurbished Hershey’s factory that’s now the headquarters of the world’s largest marijuana company—Canopy Growth Corp.… Read More→
Legal pot will roll out differently in Canada than in US June 23, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments Mail-order weed? You betcha! With marijuana legalization across Canada on the horizon, the industry is shaping up to look different from the way it does in nine U.S. states that have legalized adult recreational use of the drug. Age limits,… Read More→
Canada’s Legislature Votes To Legalize Marijuana; Sales Will Begin In Weeks June 19, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments Recreational marijuana may soon be legal in Canada, after both the House of Commons and the Senate approved the Cannabis Act. Legal sales are likely to begin before the end of summer after the Senate voted 52-29 Tuesday night to… Read More→
Legal Marijuana Won’t Arrive In Canada By July 1 As Planned June 14, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments The federal government’s much-debated legislation to legalize marijuana is being punted back to the Senate, it was confirmed on Wednesday, with a few key changes in its wording and a stern warning from the prime minister that Conservative senators should quit playing… Read More→
Canada moves a step closer to legalising marijuana June 8, 2018 AggregatedNews Canada 0 Comments A key legislative hurdle has been passed as Canada moves closer to legalising recreational cannabis. Canadian senators passed the Cannabis Act by 56 votes to 30 with one abstention after studying the landmark legislation for six months. Prime Minister Justin… Read More→
Sunniva Receives Confirmation of Readiness From Health Canada May 29, 2018 Press Release Canada, Press Releases 0 Comments PRESS RELEASE VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NetworkWire – Sunniva Inc. ("Sunniva" or the “Company”) (CSE:SNN)(OTCQX:SNNVF), a North American provider of cannabis products and services, is pleased to announce a major milestone with the receipt… Read More→