Legalizing Marijuana

• Marijuana growing companies must disclose foreign owners in bid to curb organized crime

  The Senate wants to ensure that organized crime doesn't use offshore tax havens to wind up secretly controlling the recreational marijuana market in Canada once cannabis is legalized.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2018
  
• Alberta proposes do it yourself beer, wine outlets and adds rules to cannabis

  On the cannabis front, the changes will make clear that private operators who set up cannabis outlets can't use store names that suggest their product is tied to medical or therapeutic benefits, and can't entice children.

  Politics

  Apr 9, 2018
  
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• Grow weed at McGill University and get a degree?

  McGill is offering people with a background in plant sciences the unique opportunity to learn how to cultivate marijuana.

  Education

  Mar 12, 2018
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• Quebec considers legal limit for THC

  Quebec psychiatrists are warning of increasing levels of THC and say the province needs to set a potency limit in legal marijuana.

  Canada

  Jan 17, 2018
• Saskatoon to limit where marijuana can be smoked

  The City of Saskatoon is planning to place the same limits on smoking marijuana in public places as it does with tobacco.

  Canada

  Jan 5, 2018
• Bill Kelly: Finance ministers’ meeting is a potluck affair

  There is still a huge debate about pot, but it's switched from the moral debate about legalization to the much more pragmatic discussion about who gets the money.

  Dec 11, 2017
• Montreal ‘Weedmaps’ ads removed after anti-marijuana complaints

  Ben Anson says the company hosting ads for Weedmaps agreed to remove the billboards.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2017
• Private marijuana industry to be boon for Alberta: Alberta Cannabis Stakeholders Group

  Marijuana is expected to be big business, especially if you look at the private regulation models in Colorado and Washington. A lobby group thinks that means Alberta will see a huge benefit and an entirely new industry spring up from nothing.

  Consumer

  Nov 17, 2017
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• Scott Thompson: Should we research pot before legalization, or after?

  With legalization introducing the drug into the mainstream for sale, the unavoidable question is: why proper research now and not before introducing legalization?

  Nov 8, 2017
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• Pot stakeholder group wants marijuana sold through private stores, not government-run shops

  "The Alberta government doesn't need to reinvent the wheel. Ontario spent upwards of $3.7-billion in operating costs of the LCBO last year."

  Politics

  Nov 1, 2017