Canada’s medical marijuana growers say a jump in the number of illegal marijuana dispensaries as the federal government decides how to regulate the drug is costing them customers. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised during last year’s election campaign that his Liberals would legalize recreational marijuana,...

Employees trim away leaves from marijuana plants to be packaged and sold at a dispensary in Colorado. As Canada moves towards legalization, what can it learn from those jurisdictions that have already made the change? As the federal Liberals map out their plan for legalizing marijuana, they can look at how — and how...

Jason Wilcox, co-founder of the Cannabis In Canada Society, oversaw the fundraising effort to bring a case to the Federal Court that resulted this week in the court’s ruling that patients have a right to grow their own medical marijuana.(John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail) The federal government should use a court...

Don Briere was once convicted and sent to prison for running British Columbia’s largest network of marijuana grow ops. So on Wednesday, when a Canadian judge ruled that the ban on growing medicinal marijuana at home was unconstitutional, Briere was elated. “The personal production license people are all dancing in the...