Social media outlets present a fantastic opportunity for all specialty food business owners to meet and engage with targeted audiences full of thousands of potential customers. If used correctly, participating in social media will help your business grow through powerful word-of-mouth campaigns. Here are eight tips on...

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,...

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...

Licensed pot producers now face the risk of losing business to home growers who won’t have to deal with the same regulations. Canada’s nascent medical marijuana industry is being thrown into new turmoil by a court ruling that threatens to undercut its business model. Leading pot producers such as Canopy Growth Corp.,...

Canada’s producers of medical marijuana are sitting on a seven-tonne stash of weed, with the inventory steadily growing as supply exceeds demand in the legal system, according to the most recent Health Canada numbers. Health Canada is currently studying 401 new applications for licences to produce cannabis for...

The image many Americans have of High Times is a magazine that symbolizes counterculture, sitting in the corner of a dorm room, maybe on a beanbag chair. Inside its pages: closeup shots depicting sparkling, sticky nuggets of marijuana. But with marijuana now legal in four states and Washington D.C., and medicinal...

The first marijuana business proposal to go through the city of Glenwood Springs’ newly established City Council review process has resulted in a favorable outcome for the new owners of the Green Dragon to add edibles manufacturing to the operation. Green Dragon, which was the second retail recreational marijuana...

Since it’s 2016, Canadian marijuana policy is about to change. Yesterday’s users were delinquent outsiders. They apparently acted as criminal, conspiratorial spys, students and single mothers. They were immoral, indictable and illegal sitting targets. Tomorrow they will become moral, politically correct and...

SEATTLE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / January 19, 2016 / CFN Media – The Canadian cannabis industry is poised for rapid growth over the coming years. After rolling out the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR), the country opened the door to the corporatization of the cannabis industry. Health Canada projected that...

Strict federal regulations ensure their products are safe, of a reliable potency, and grown in a sterile environment, explains an infographic recently published by one of those licensed producers (LPs). But as the Straight reported last year and, again, last week(January 14), companies authorized under the Marihuana...