VANCOUVER — Three pot dispensaries have passed the second hurdle in the City of Vancouver regulatory process designed to exert some control over the shops that had grown to more than 100 by last year. The MPN Health Society on Kingsway, the Buddha Barn Medicinal Cannabis Society on Fourth Avenue in Kitsilano and the...

© tweed.com Mark Zekulin, president, Tweed Marijuana Inc. Some of Canada’s biggest producers of medical marijuana want the federal government to implement advertising regulations similar to those that govern the sale of alcohol, as they await the Liberal government’s long-promised legal recreational market.   A...

  There is an ugly trend that exists in society today, and it is affecting all of us. Revenue from natural resources, industry, agriculture, and more, is increasingly being leveraged away from the average Canadian and into the bank accounts of the wealthiest among us. Our legislators must now decide if they will...

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...

A Canadian man has been handed a mandatory life sentence for his role in a multimillion-dollar drug-trafficking operation that smuggled thousands of kilograms of marijuana into the United States, authorities said. Michael (Mickey) Woods, 45, of Cornwall, Ont., who had been convicted following a six-day jury trial...

The federally funded agency that studies addiction is embarking on a four city tour to warn about the effects of marijuana on young people. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse opens the tour in Halifax today with a panel of three experts. Dr. Amy Porath-Waller, the centre’s director of research and policy, says...

A trade group representing most of Canada’s licensed marijuana growers is calling on the federal government to curb the ongoing surge in illegal pot shops, which began in Vancouver and has now spread to Toronto. Reacting to news that Canada’s largest city now has 40 dispensaries and could see more than 100 by this...