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...

The feds might want to make the bold move to invite dispensaries to the table to participate in the future shaping of a national cannabis strategy. As Canada creeps closer to legal weed, those accessing marijuana for medical purposes are still lost in a maze of rules, regulations and misinformation. Health Canada’s...

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...

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.,...

A bag of marijuana is held up at a medical marijuana dispensary in Vancouver on Friday May 1, 2015. The City of Vancouver has become the first in Canada to regulate illegal marijuana dispensaries, despite strong warnings from the federal government. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck VANCOUVER – A Federal Court judge is...