Pot Legalization

• Cannabis review calls for several changes as industry struggles

  A group convened by the federal government to study the legislation that made cannabis legal is recommending the country review one of the industry's biggest gripes.

  Canada

  Mar 22, 2024
  
• Draft bill to legalize pot at federal level in U.S. unveiled by Democratic senators

  Three top U.S. Democratic senators on Wednesday unveiled a discussion draft of a bill that aims to make cannabis federally legal

  Cannabis

  Jul 14, 2021
  
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• What ails Canada’s legal cannabis industry? Lack of stores, mostly

  Eventually, Canada will have enough cannabis stores. Even then, one observer warns, legal cannabis may not be "nearly as profitable as people thought it was."

  Cannabis

  Nov 21, 2019
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• New Brunswick moves to privatize Cannabis NB

  New Brunswick Finance and Treasury Board Minister Ernie Steeves made the announcement on Tuesday.

  Cannabis

  Nov 14, 2019
• After a year of legal weed, some questions we’ve answered and some we haven’t

  As Canada starts its second year of legal cannabis, here are five questions for which we're starting to get some answers.

  Cannabis

  Oct 17, 2019
• Only 44 Canadians have been given cannabis pardons under new system

  Giving pardons to people with old possession convictions was discussed long before legalization. But since a system was put in place, only a few dozen people have been given one.

  Cannabis

  Sep 9, 2019
• 2 proposed London pot shops among winners of Ontario’s 2nd cannabis-store lottery

  If approved, the two proposed cannabis store locations would become London's fourth and fifth pot shops.

  Cannabis

  Aug 21, 2019
• 42 Ontario pot store licences awarded in 2nd lottery, 13 stores to be in Toronto

  The new stores, when approved, will more than double the number of marijuana outlets in the province.

  Canada

  Aug 21, 2019
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• Who started using legal weed? (Don’t look at teens — look at their parents)

  Middle-aged men increased their cannabis use after legalization more than any other demographic group. In second place: middle-aged women.

  Cannabis

  Jun 27, 2019
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• 8 ways we treat weed differently from alcohol. (Do any of them make sense?)

  Cannabis is probably safer than alcohol. So why do we restrict it more?

  Cannabis

  Jun 14, 2019