Items tagged with canada
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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 ... |
Neighbours smell trouble from legal cannabis in Luxembourg [03.05.2019] | Luxembourg is likely to run into trouble with its neighbours if it sticks by its plan to legalise cannabis - a policy that remains unthinkable partic ... |
First-time cannabis use up after legalization, StatsCan reports [02.05.2019] | More Canadians say they've used cannabis recreationally since it was legalized last fall, particularly those aged 45 to 64 and males, according to St ... |
Cannabis co-operatives: Can working together preserve small players? [01.05.2019] | Hezekiah Allen believes in small family farms, though he’s biased — he grew up on one. Born in an off-the-grid community of rural Humboldt County, Al ... |
Cannabis park gives micro-growers running start in competitive sector [01.05.2019] | Small-batch growers of cannabis hoping to get in on the legal and growing recreational market will soon have a home to get a head start in the busine ... |
B.C.’s chief health officer calls for decriminalization of illicit drugs [24.04.2019] | British Columbia’s top public health officer is urging the province to decriminalize people who use and possess small amounts of illicit drugs in the ... |
Germany to launch cannabis farming as Canada's Aurora, Aphria win tenders [18.04.2019] | Germany has awarded contracts to supply domestically-grown cannabis to two Canadian companies, as it seeks to develop its own medicinal marijuana ind ... |
The cannabis ‘gold rush’ is underway and shows no sign of stopping, says pot CEO [18.04.2019] | With 33 states now offering some form of legal medical or recreational marijuana, and pot companies expanding their footprints across the country, th ... |
These are the countries most likely to legalize weed next [17.04.2019] | In October 2018, Canada became the second country after Uruguay—and the first G7 nation—to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Led by Prime Mi ... |
Canada's legal weed struggles to light up as smokers stick to black market [17.04.2019] | When Melissa, a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, went to one of Canada’s first government cannabis stores, she wasn’t impressed. “You can’t look at ... |
Jamaica’s cannabis gamble [17.04.2019] | Jamaica is starting to think of cannabis as an opportunity. Uruguay, Canada and ten American states have legalised it for recreational use. Ganja, as ... |
Global cannabis investors souring on Canada's potential [16.04.2019] | Six months after cannabis was legalized in Canada, many of the people in search of a financial windfall appear ready to turn their attention elsewher ... |
Will Germany become the world's largest market for medicinal cannabis? [30.03.2019] | The use of medicinal cannabis has been allowed in Germany for two years now. But because domestic cultivation hasn't gotten off the ground yet, the p ... |
Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market [21.03.2019] | Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in ... |
Demand for supervised injection sites steady as funding decisions loom [11.03.2019] | As toxic and often deadly fentanyl began popping up in the city's illicit drug supply fatal overdoses surged. Despite strong opposition, four supervi ... |
Canadian company partners with Westmoreland farmers to grow ganja [08.03.2019] | Wiisag Corporation, a Canadian indigenous integrated cannabis company, has signed an agreement to partner with the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganga Farmer ... |
Bankers circling Europe's growing cannabis market [05.03.2019] | Investors who are eager for the cannabis industry in Europe to emulate the boom in pot-stock listings in Canada may not have much longer to wait, jud ... |
Sweet smell of success? Big business bets on a marijuana boom [02.03.2019] | To listen to some of the predictions about the future of the cannabis industry, you would think financial analysts had been partaking heavily of the ... |
Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs [01.03.2019] | If New Zealand votes to legalise cannabis in 2020’s binding referendum, we will have a unique opportunity on our hands. Creating a licit market from ... |
Sell regulated heroin to drug users to reduce overdose deaths: B.C. group [21.02.2019] | Heroin addicts should be granted access to a clean supply of the drug provided through “compassion clubs” similar to those that provide medical marij ... |
The cannabis black market will control 71 per cent of sales in Canada this year, Scotiabank says [13.02.2019] | A new research note from Scotiabank analysts estimate that the black market will control 71 percent of cannabis sales in Canada in 2019. The logistic ... |
Invest in marijuana? What are you smoking? [11.02.2019] | The rapid rise of marijuana legalization has created what some people call a bubble for marijuana stocks. It’s reminiscent of the dot-com craze in 19 ... |
What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja [11.02.2019] | Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively ... |
Cannabis co-ops seek to bring small producers, processors into legal market [10.02.2019] | British Columbia may be famous for its bud but some say Canada's new marijuana legalization framework is excluding the small producers with establish ... |
Why legal cannabis growers can’t compete with the black market — yet [01.02.2019] | Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains. “There’s all kin ... |
Canada’s cannabis shortage could be over quicker than we thought, researcher says [01.02.2019] | If Canada’s licensed cannabis producers continue ramping up production at their current exponential pace, there will be more than enough pot to meet ... |
Cannabis comes to Davos, sharing spotlight with global elites [28.01.2019] | If more proof was needed that cannabis is becoming accepted by the world’s financial and political elite, what better place to find it than at the Sw ... |
How Canopy Growth became the jolly green giant of cannabis [24.01.2019] | The common wisdom among investors and analysts in the cannabis industry has been that bigger is better. They predict that cannabis will follow the pa ... |
After legalization: Four things to know about cannabis in Quebec [17.01.2019] | In Quebec — where the product is sold by the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) — legalization has highlighted the province’s thirs ... |
Luxembourg in talks with Canada over how to legalise recreational cannabis [16.01.2019] | Discussions between Luxembourg and Canada are under way to establish how the Grand Duchy will legalise cannabis and sell the drug for recreational us ... |
Enjoy it while you can Cannabis Canada, your edge is already eroding [11.01.2019] | A number of industry insiders who argue that the level of government control and intervention in the cannabis landscape in Canada, coupled with the s ... |
Legal pot costs almost 50 per cent more than pot bought on the black market: StatCan [09.01.2019] | A legal gram of cannabis in Canada costs nearly 50 per cent more than illicit pot, according to a new analysis of price quotes compiled by Statistics ... |
Canada legalized pot in October. But its black market is still going strong [05.01.2019] | The legal cannabis stores that opened here last fall still look pristine. Curious customers file in, but the shelves they peruse are often bare. Supp ... |
The great fentanyl myth, and how we’re killing drug users [04.01.2019] | Our moral failure flows from the fact that we know what to do, but accept a policy that is killing our fellow citizens. The Vancouver Police Departme ... |
Cannabis firms in conflict of interest for owning both pot producers and marijuana clinics, critics charge [27.12.2018] | When doctors at the Solace Health Network of cannabis clinics prescribe their patients medical marijuana, one government-licensed producer of the dru ... |
Tilray goes global with Novartis marijuana sales partnership [18.12.2018] | Tilray Inc. has signed a global partnership with a division of Swiss drug giant Novartis AG to develop and distribute its medical marijuana in legal ... |
Safer opioids actively being reviewed for epidemic: chief public health officer [12.12.2018] | Public health officials across Canada are seriously considering increasing the supply of safer opioids to quell a crisis that newly released data sho ... |
Marlboro owner Altria invests $1.8 billion in cannabis company Cronos [07.12.2018] | Tobacco giant Altira is investing $1.8 billion in Canadian cannabis company Cronos Group. That will give Altria a 45% stake in the company, with an o ... |
Cannabis firm confirms investment talks with Marlboro maker [04.12.2018] | Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is in talks with a Canadian cannabis producer over a potential investment in the firm. Canada's Cronos Grou ... |
Marijuana, mountains and money: How Lesotho is cashing in [28.11.2018] | Lesotho is aiming to make money from the booming medicinal marijuana industry, but the southern African nation already has an unheralded illicit trad ... |
Dr Benedikt Fischer: Canada provides lessons on legal cannabis [27.11.2018] | New Zealand is debating its cannabis policy, a process that led to legalisation of cannabis use and supply in Canada just last month. Since the two c ... |
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