A look into the future of industrial hemp Unsustainable Alberta resources beware: there is a new kid on the block. Jesse Pollack and Angel Gan from the environmental technology program at SAIT discussed their ongoing sustainability project in an interview on Feb. 25. They are looking at hemp, a tall, green and stalky...

Many aspiring entrepreneurs end up in a business for the same reason that they end up in other relationships: They follow their passion. Whether it is an exciting idea, the lure of the be-your-own-boss myth or the often false pretense of doing more of what you love too often, creativity and passion are...

It’s not JUST about the money. I know, this is not something most folks expect to read in an investment newsletter. So let me explain… A few years ago, when I first started writing about the legal marijuana space, I was accused of compromising my ethics in an attempt to make a buck. But nothing could be further from the...

As the reality of legalized non-medical marijuana looms large, Canadians want to know if it’s as dangerous as cigarettes. Or is pot actually “infinitely worse,” as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper famously declared during the recent federal election? It’s neither, science now asserts. In fact, Harper couldn’t...

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...

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...