Items tagged with canada
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| Pot growers turn to gifting, trading with no legal way to buy cannabis seeds in Canada [27.11.2018] | Cannabis consumers who can’t buy seeds are finding creative ways to grow their own pot. Even though the federal government made it legal on Oct. 17 t ... |
| Greece eyes pot of gold as medicinal cannabis licensed [19.11.2018] | Greece issued the first licences to private companies for growing medicinal cannabis in the country, part of an attempt to tap a burgeoning market wo ... |
| Cannabis industry says it needs more approved growers to meet Canadian demand [12.11.2018] | More fully-licensed cannabis growers and cultivation space are needed to meet a voracious demand for legal marijuana, a spokesman for the industry sa ... |
| Canada’s message to teenagers: Marijuana is legal now. Please don’t smoke it [11.11.2018] | Canada became the second country to make it legal for adults to buy, grow and consume small amounts of marijuana. But it also made it a crime to give ... |
| Cannabis companies race to clinch an edge in pot industry’s next phase of growth: Intellectual property [09.11.2018] | A report by the Bank of Montreal, which assumed a blue-sky scenario in which the U.S. and all 28 countries in the European Union legalize marijuana f ... |
| Weed woes: Canada struggles to meet huge demand for legal cannabis [04.11.2018] | Two weeks after Canada became the first G20 country to legalize cannabis amid much fanfare, numerous stores – both physical and digital – are struggl ... |
| Cannabis producers could be chasing global market worth $194 billion in seven years: BMO report [01.11.2018] | The potential of the global cannabis industry is so vast that it could eventually make the sky-high valuations of some Canadian licensed producers lo ... |
| Pardons don't go far enough. Convictions for cannabis possession must be expunged [29.10.2018] | Today, more than 500,000 Canadians are encumbered with a criminal record for doing something that is now legal: possessing a small amount (30 grams o ... |
| Pot pioneers who went to jail for the cause now watch legal opportunities pass them by [25.10.2018] | At the outset of legalization, people who defied prohibition in high-profile ways appear to be getting shut out of a burgeoning industry just as the ... |
| Bong arm of the law: South Korea says it will arrest citizens who smoke weed in Canada [23.10.2018] | For South Koreans in Canada, the police in their home country have no problem harshing their mellow. Canada became the second country in the world to ... |
| Russia warns Canada cannabis legalization will lead to increased trafficking [23.10.2018] | Russia has denounced Canada's cannabis legalization, calling it "unacceptable" and contrary to international laws, and saying it will lead to increas ... |
| Mexico may be next to legalise marijuana, says incoming FM [23.10.2018] | Mexico "absolutely" could follow Canada's lead in legalising marijuana as a way to reduce violence generated by a war on drugs that "doesn't work," i ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Cannabis in Canada: Pardoning people for possession isn't enough [20.10.2018] | Canadians will get pardons if they were convicted of possessing marijuana before it was legalised. That means their criminal record for cannabis poss ... |
| Advocates say black market will thrive until small pot growers and sellers are included [17.10.2018] | “It’s not fair to expect the government to deliver everything perfectly Day 1 when this is a huge transition,” said Ian Dawkins, president of the Can ... |
| Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries [17.10.2018] | For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments to grow cannabis as a cash crop. But as Canada be ... |
| Cannabis Amnesty welcomes Liberal government's promise of pardons, but says they require "four central features" [17.10.2018] | The half-million Canadians with criminal records for cannabis possession received some encouraging news. Four Liberal cabinet ministers held a news c ... |
| Cannabis Day 1: How Canada greeted legalization from coast to coast [17.10.2018] | From St. John’s to Vancouver, from Southern Ontario to the Far North, Canada’s nearly century-old prohibition on recreational cannabis lifted on Wedn ... |
| Globe editorial: With legal pot, Canada sets an example for other countries [17.10.2018] | And so, here we go. The recreational use of cannabis is now legal in Canada, making ours only the second country, after tiny Uruguay, to take a leap ... |
| UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization [17.10.2018] | After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) slammed the decision in a statement calling the ... |
| Dazed and confused: Canada cannabis legalization brings complex new laws [16.10.2018] | Canada will this week become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, but as they negotiate a patchwork of new legislation ... |
| Cannabis in Canada: Who wins and who loses under new law [15.10.2018] | Canada is about to become the second nation to fully legalise recreational cannabis. When prohibition comes to an end on 17 October, Canadian adults ... |
| How the biggest pot stocks plan to win in what is about to become a 'brutal' industry [15.10.2018] | The cannabis hype is about to come face-to-face with reality. After Canada legalizes recreational marijuana on Oct. 17, it will only take a quarter o ... |
| Pot companies failing at financial reporting, regulator says [10.10.2018] | Cannabis companies are failing to adequately disclose even basic financial information to shareholders — from cost of production to fair value assess ... |
| Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? [03.10.2018] | The cannabis industry’s moral challenge is to ensure the groups who have suffered the most under the drug war can participate in the green rush and e ... |
| U.S. cannabis producers fear Canada will 'dominate the industry' [29.09.2018] | The CEO of California-based marijuana producer and seller Terra Tech is watching the cannabis industry boom north of the border with more than a litt ... |
| Why some U.S. allies didn’t sign up for Trump’s pledge to fight drugs [24.09.2018] | President Trump began his week at the UN General Assembly with an event seeking to prompt action against the global drug trade. “The call is simple,” ... |
| Trump kicks off UN general assembly with ‘problematic’ drug policy document [24.09.2018] | Donald Trump has kicked off the 2018 United Nations General Assembly by announcing what experts have labelled a problematic agreement to tackle the w ... |
| 'Monsanto of pot': How cannabis firms are seeking to lower growing costs [18.09.2018] | As cannabis producers add to their harvest as Canada prepares to legalize recreational use starting Oct. 17, some companies are already exploring nov ... |
| Tilray CEO envisions US$100B future as company surges past Canopy's market cap [18.09.2018] | Tilray Inc., the cannabis company that has seen its valuation double, could become a US$100 billion company, according to its CEO Brendan Kennedy, as ... |
| Canopy Growth CEO: We're not the Amazon or Google of pot yet, but we want to be [31.08.2018] | Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton told CNBC Friday the cannabis company is well ahead of its rivals in becoming the leading brand in legal marijuana but ... |
| City launches consultation on four designated cannabis consumption sites [27.08.2018] | With Canada-wide cannabis legalization less than two months away, city hall wants to know how Calgarians feel about four areas it’s proposing as desi ... |
| Constellation spends $4bn to lift stake in cannabis group Canopy [15.08.2018] | Beer maker Constellation Brands doubled down on its bet on the budding marijuana industry, pumping just under $4bn into a Canadian group that has sou ... |
| Ontario will rely on private sector to sell recreational cannabis [13.08.2018] | Premier Doug Ford is giving up Ontario’s monopoly on weed, opening sales of recreational cannabis to private stores by April 1 in a dramatic shift th ... |
| For US pot companies, Canada is the land of opportunity [25.07.2018] | Green Thumb Industries had a business plan, expertise and plenty of ambition to grow its marijuana business. What the Chicago-based company didn't ha ... |
| Watchful eyes: At peer-run injection sites, drug users help each other stay safe [13.07.2018] | People who use injection drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia, can do so, if they choose, under the watchful eyes of someone trained to help them if ... |
| Toronto’s chief medical officer calls for decriminalization of all drugs for personal use [09.07.2018] | Toronto’s chief medical officer is calling for the decriminalization – and potential legalization – of all drugs for personal use as a way to curb ri ... |
| Canada’s cannabis firms plot world domination [05.07.2018] | It is rare to see the words “Canada” and “world domination” in the same sentence. The country’s cannabis producers want to change that. With an eye o ... |
| New regulations may spark Canada’s craft cannabis revolution [28.06.2018] | While legalization in Canada is delayed until October 17th, 2018, Canadians are celebrating as micro-licenses are finally coming out, ushering in the ... |
| Russia cites UN body to blast Canada’s cannabis legalization [28.06.2018] | Opponents of the Trudeau government’s plan to legalize marijuana in Canada are getting some unexpected if, perhaps, unwelcome support from the Russia ... |
| Tobacco giant Imperial Brands invests in medical cannabis [28.06.2018] | Tobacco firm Imperial Brands is investing in UK biotech company Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT). The move comes as campaigning to allow marijua ... |
| Profits and perils of the new Canadian pot economy: Don Pittis [25.06.2018] | Legalization is creating a whole new industry — perhaps a whole new economy. But even as pot generates new jobs and new companies and new stock marke ... |
| Senate passes pot bill, paving way for legal cannabis in 8 to 12 weeks [19.06.2018] | Senators have voted to pass the federal government's bill legalizing recreational marijuana by a vote of 52-29, with two abstentions, paving the way ... |
| Marijuana bill inches closer to passage with House vote [18.06.2018] | The bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons — but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from ... |
| Pot legalization battle brewing as government rejects key Senate change [13.06.2018] | The federal government is rejecting several Senate changes to its cannabis legalization bill, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the S ... |
| Rare Jamaican cannabis strains are seeding a medical marijuana takeover in Canada [12.06.2018] | With the support of the Jamaican government and the farmer’s collective they partner with on the island nation, the Jamaican Medical Cannabis Collect ... |
| Goodbye counterculture: what will happen when weed goes corporate? [07.06.2018] | Under the federal government’s new legal regime, for the first time in Canadian history, minors in possession of more than five grams of dried cannab ... |
| Senate approves cannabis legalization bill with dozens of amendments [07.06.2018] | The Senate has approved the Trudeau government’s landmark legislation to lift Canada’s 95-year-old prohibition on recreational cannabis – but with ne ... |
| Pot delivery services could be 'cockroaches' of marijuana legalization, experts say [03.06.2018] | Marijuana businesses are growing as Canada moves toward legalization of recreational pot, creating an increasingly daunting job for those tasked with ... |
| Big cannabis growers urge senators to ban commercial outdoor growing [23.05.2018] | Canada’s medical cannabis industry is making a push in the Senate to ban large-scale outdoor cannabis cultivation. Allan Rewak, the executive directo ... |
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