Posts Tagged ‘Legal’

Of all of the promises the Liberals made in the lead-up to last year’s election, one would have thought that legalizing marijuana would be an easy one to keep, as it would be pretty easy to do. The basis for marijuana’s illegality in Canada is its inclusion in several schedules of the Controlled Drugs and...

The last time the Liberals proposed decriminalizing marijuana, we faced the real prospect of being penalized by our neighbours to the south. Now it seems as though our American friends have a burgeoning legal marijuana market of their own. Recent figures show that cannabis sales in Colorado alone (which legalized the...

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Enter the words “mail order marijuana” into Google and you’ll find plenty of websites illegally offering marijuana for sale — and offering to ship it straight to you through Canada Post. Typically, dealers collect payment online, process the order form, and ship the drugs to an address provided by the buyer. One...

Could Canada Post become Canada Pot? The Crown corporation is desperately seeking new revenue sources, as mail volumes drop five per cent a year. At the same time, the federal government is equally frantic in its hunt for income, as the economy slows. The suggestion from producers of medicinal marijuana is that Canada...

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is the latest leader to advocate distributing marijuana through provincial liquor control boards, should Ottawa legalize the drug. It is not an entirely stupid idea. Yet it will encounter three intractable problems. First, there is a fundamental conflict between harm prevention and...

In 2015 Justin Trudeau was elected Prime Minister of Canada, which was considered by many to be the top marijuana reform moment of the year. Justin Trudeau campaigned on a pro-marijuana legalization platform, and stated during his campaign that if he were elected, he would get to work on legalization as soon as he...

Don Briere already runs the biggest chain of illegal marijuana dispensaries in the country, with 19 locations throughout B.C. Now, he’s expanding eastward, inking deals to open six pot-shop franchises in Toronto. Sent to prison for once heading British Columbia’s biggest network of marijuana grow operations, Mr....