Agency tells CBC News it’s ‘expanding’ its ‘laboratory capability’ Health Canada says it’s preparing to test the health effects of inhaling substances emitted from cannabis vaping products that are already legally for sale in Canada. Agency spokesperson Eric Morrissette said in a statement this week it has “research underway” on the emissions of nicotine e-cigarettes […]
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A Glimpse Of the US Future: Shoppers Drug Mart expands medical cannabis online sales to Canadian East Coast
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 Brunswick and Prince Edward Island can go online on the company’s website to make their […]
Temporary power, humidity and temperature control solve plaguing production problems
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. Instead of fulfilling on investor expectations for rapid growth, otherwise promising businesses in this emerging industry have actually experienced […]
These 2 States Are Sabotaging Their Respective Marijuana Industries
These billion-dollar markets are making it impossible for their cannabis industries to thrive. At this time last year, the cannabis industry looked as if it would be practically unstoppable. Canada had just become the first industrialized country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, and Wall Street was throwing out huge estimates on future industry […]
Compound found in U.S. vaping patients not allowed in Canadian cannabis products: officials
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, along with the Public Health Agency of Canada, is actively monitoring the apparent U.S. breakthrough. […]
Health Crisis Casts Shadow Over Canadian Debut of Cannabis Vapes
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 first reported vaping-linked illness while hundreds have fallen ill in the U.S., is further battering […]
First case of vaping-related lung disease reported in Quebec
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 since recovered, Dr. Mylène Drouin of the Montreal Public Health Department told reporters at a […]
How Canada failed to smash the cannabis black market
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 find Toronto’s Union Train Station so I could get to the airport and go home. […]
Harrop: Why Canadians rule the cannabis business
President Donald Trump routinely waves his fist at alleged unfair trade practices, including at the hands of our good neighbor Canada. But what about playing fields that are uneven because the U.S. government makes them so? Witness the cannabis industry. It’s enjoying explosive growth worldwide, but Canadians are running away with the profits because Washington […]
Can Canadians in the Cannabis Industry Travel to the U.S.?
Last week, the United States clarified its position on whether Canadians involved in the legal cannabis industry will be allowed to enter the U.S. While the clarification is good news for some involved in the Canadian cannabis industry, users of legal cannabis and Canadians seeking to enter the U.S. for business purposes related to the legal […]
Cannabis and International Trade: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
By Adams Lee , Attorney at Harris Bricken Recently, we’ve been getting tons of questions from clients regarding the international import and export of cannabis around the globe. 2018 was a historic year for the cannabis industry not just in the United States, but also internationally. Canada legalized recreational marijuana for the entire country. Many countries (e.g., Thailand, […]
Challenges and Opportunities for Trade in Cannabis
By Andrew Shore and James Jochum Shocking to many is the fact that Canada is consistently one of America’s top trading partners and currently our second largest behind China. Moreover, Canada is the world’s largest purchaser of all U.S. exports and the largest purchaser of American agricultural products. As of April, 18.3 percent of U.S. […]
Ontario Engages Cannabis
Ontario has issued its plans for how to implement cannabis legalization once it becomes national law, and we believe there is much to champion in the province’s approach towards building a smart regulatory framework that benefits consumers, businesses and government. As owners of cannabis grow facilities in different provinces, we are eager to begin working […]
Canada’s Framework for the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis and What It Means to Growers
By Leigh Coulter The Canadian government has released the November 2016 report that was filed in Ottawa by the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation. This report contains the findings and official recommendations of the task force for establishing legal cannabis across Canada. In total, the document contains 112 pages and covers issues from […]
Canada’s Drug Stores Want In On Weed
Shopper’s Drug Mart, one of Canada’s most established retail brands, has formally applied to become licensed as a producer for Canada’s medical marijuana industry. The pharmacy chain, with over 1,200 locations, made its distribution ambitions very clear in a statement. “We have no intention of producing medical marijuana, but we do want the ability to dispense medical […]
Trudeau’s Honeymoon Is Over
It was just over a year ago that the young Millennial-favourite politician, Justin Trudeau, became Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister with a campaign full of big promises and ambition to take Canada in a radically different direct than its previous tenure under Stephen Harper. One of the largest, and quite popular, promises was the complete legalization of marijuana. […]
Cannabis Shops in Canada Remain Operational While Waiting to Legalize
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Cannabis Culture Lounge has everything a pothead might need to feel right at home: $3 marijuana buds, bongs for rent, bags of Skittles and Doritos for sale, and black leather couches where customers can recline in zoned-out contemplation in a pungent haze. Never mind that it is all technically prohibited […]
Canadian Medical Marijuana Patients Authorized to Grow Their Own By Health Canada
The new regulations announced today go into effect in two weeks. But with legalization of the drug looming, today’s rules could soon change again, leaving people in the booming marijuana business still wondering what the future holds. The former Conservative government scrapped home-grow permits in 2013, bringing in rules that meant the only legal way to […]
