AGLC lifts moratorium on new retail cannabis licences
By Kirby Bourne Digital Content Coordinator
Five licences will now be issued per week using a first-in, first-out queue the AGLC has been maintaining. Continue reading
Alberta cannabis
Six months after legalization, high prices and supply issues boost illicit pot market
It has been six months since Canada became the first industrialized country to legalize recreational cannabis, in a bid to stamp out the illicit market, but the price gap between legal and illicit marijuana appears to be widening, according to Statistics Canada. Continue reading
Alberta, Ontario to lead Canada’s legal pot market by 2024: report
The report found that Alberta’s “comparatively liberal regulatory regime suggests it will rank among the fastest-growing provincial cannabis markets.” Continue reading
Canadian Cannabis Wedding Expo unites pot and proposals
By Tracy Nagai Reporter and Co-anchor
Now that recreational cannabis is legal in Canada, a new wedding expo is coming to Calgary with some fun ideas and hopes to crush the stigma. Continue reading
AGLC to issue another 10 retail cannabis licences
By Kirby Bourne Digital Content Coordinator
The first 10 applicants that met all the licensing conditions after the decision was made to stop issuing licences on Nov. 21, 2018, will be given a licence. Continue reading
Cannabis supply slowly improving but not enough to allow more licences: AGLC
The Alberta regulator in charge of the legal marijuana market says supply is improving, but not enough to start issuing new cannabis licences. Continue reading
AGLC says it’s only received 20% of cannabis ordered from producers; halting new retail licences
Alberta Gaming Liquor and Cannabis — the provincial regulator for retail cannabis — said Wednesday it’s only received 20 per cent of the product it ordered and expected from licensed producers. Continue reading
More Edmonton cannabis stores face supply shortages; demand ‘way more than anticipated’
It’s been a week and a half since recreational cannabis became legal in Canada and already, some Edmonton retail locations have sold out of their product supply. Continue reading
Cannabis IQ: Where’s my pot? Backlogs, shortages plague first week of legalization
October 17 was followed (maybe unavoidably) by anticlimax, as Canadians found empty shelves in the handful of retail outlets that opened, and long delays in shipping online orders. Continue reading
What works, what doesn’t on Canada’s brand-new cannabis sales sites
We toured seven of Canada’s brand-new cannabis sites. Some are better than others. (Here’s why we like Quebec’s.) Continue reading