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B.C. judge allows cannabis ‘fire sale’ to stave off CRA destruction threat

Judge says CRA was intending to destroy remaining inventory of cannabis firm

 

A man holds a joint while smoking cannabis, in Vancouver on Wednesday Oct. 17, 2018. Statistics Canada says nearly five per cent of cannabis users are at risk of developing an addiction to the drug, according to a survey of households. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Risk of cannabis addiction higher for young men, people with anxiety

StatCan survey finds nearly 5 per cent of users at risk

 

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Doctors concerned more people using cannabis during pregnancy

Study based on data from 980,398 pregnancies in Ontario between January 2015 and July 2021

 

The second annual B.C. Cannabis Summit was hosted in Kelowna April 21-23, 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)

B.C. Cannabis Summit blunt and blazing the way for a better legal market

The summit was held at Kelowna’s Eldorado Hotel and Manteo Resort

The second annual B.C. Cannabis Summit was hosted in Kelowna April 21-23, 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
Ted Smith, founder of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, gave a speech on the importance of continuing to support medical cannabis users. (Hollie Ferguson/News Staff)

4/20: Cannabis activists smoke outside B.C. legislature to push for legalization changes

Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club has repeatedly defied laws it says don’t properly serve medical users

Ted Smith, founder of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, gave a speech on the importance of continuing to support medical cannabis users. (Hollie Ferguson/News Staff)
Leadership Council is calling for changes to the Cannabis Act for communities to better access the benefits of legalization. Kootenay Krush Farms is located near Parsons. (Black Press Media File)

First Nations group calls for changes to Cannabis Act

First Nations Leadership Council says rights, needs ignored by colonial government during legalization

Leadership Council is calling for changes to the Cannabis Act for communities to better access the benefits of legalization. Kootenay Krush Farms is located near Parsons. (Black Press Media File)
UBCO researchers isolated the genome for black root rot, a fungus killing cannabis plants in a licensed growing facility in the BC Kootenays. Here, healthy roots, left, are compared to those affected by black root rot. (contributed)

‘Nightmare ooze’ a strain on cannabis industry: UBC Okanagan researcher

The research can be read in the Plant Disease journal

UBCO researchers isolated the genome for black root rot, a fungus killing cannabis plants in a licensed growing facility in the BC Kootenays. Here, healthy roots, left, are compared to those affected by black root rot. (contributed)
FILE - An Uber sign is displayed inside a car in Palatine, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Uber Eats launches cannabis delivery service in Vancouver, Victoria

Starting immediately, B.C. residents over the age of 19 can use the Uber Eats app to order

FILE - An Uber sign is displayed inside a car in Palatine, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
All Nations CEO Darwin Douglas on April 11, 2023 in Chilliwack (Jennifer Feinberg/ Chilliwack Progress)

VIDEO: Indigenous-owned All Nations Cannabis steps onto world stage with first overseas export

Chilliwack-based All Nations team heading to 2023 BC Cannabis Summit in the Okanagan

All Nations CEO Darwin Douglas on April 11, 2023 in Chilliwack (Jennifer Feinberg/ Chilliwack Progress)
Customers enter the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation cannabis store in Halifax on Oct. 17, 2018. A spate of cannabis store robberies has many in the industry calling for provinces to relax regulations requiring window coverings or cannabis to be kept out of sight of minors. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Pot shop robberies spur push to end restrictions on window displays

Window coverings can encourage thieves who know their crime won’t be seen once inside, some owners say

Customers enter the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation cannabis store in Halifax on Oct. 17, 2018. A spate of cannabis store robberies has many in the industry calling for provinces to relax regulations requiring window coverings or cannabis to be kept out of sight of minors. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
An Adastra employee making cannabis products at the firm’s Aldergrove-area facility. (Black Press Media files)

Class action lawsuit targets Langley firm at centre of cocaine controversy

A law firm is seeking stockholders in Adastra Holdings for the planned lawsuit

An Adastra employee making cannabis products at the firm’s Aldergrove-area facility. (Black Press Media files)
A lab worker making cannabis products at Adastra Lab Holdings in the Langley Township. (Black Press Media files)

UPDATED: Langley lab can produce cocaine, but not for sale to public

Cannabis producer suggested cocaine could be part of business plan

A lab worker making cannabis products at Adastra Lab Holdings in the Langley Township. (Black Press Media files)
BLK MKT by Avant won the 2022 Cannabis Brand of the Year Canada. (blk-mkt.ca)

High praise for Kelowna cannabis brand

BLK MKT won the 2022 Cannabis Brand of the Year by ADCANN

BLK MKT by Avant won the 2022 Cannabis Brand of the Year Canada. (blk-mkt.ca)
Dasi Menakadasi (not the subject of this article) celebrates by smoking recreational cannabis, in Vancouver on Oct. 17, 2018 on the one-year anniversary of legalization. (THE CANADIAN PRESS file/Darryl Dyck)

Fraser Valley man ordered to stop smoking cannabis from his strata property patio

Civil Resolution Tribunal decision said cannabis smoke in this case was a ‘nuisance to neighbours’

Dasi Menakadasi (not the subject of this article) celebrates by smoking recreational cannabis, in Vancouver on Oct. 17, 2018 on the one-year anniversary of legalization. (THE CANADIAN PRESS file/Darryl Dyck)
Marlee’s Den budtenders Vanessa and Christina at the Cache Creek location. (Photo credit: Barbara Roden)

New Cache Creek business breaking the stigma around cannabis

‘We’ve come a long way’ says Marlee’s Den owner Shawn Dang

Marlee’s Den budtenders Vanessa and Christina at the Cache Creek location. (Photo credit: Barbara Roden)
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Diddy to buy Cresco, Columbia Care marijuana assets for up to $185 million

The hip-hop mogul has agreed to pay up to $185 million in…

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Cannabis cuttings are photographed at the CannTrust Niagara Greenhouse Facility during the grand opening event in Fenwick, Ont., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Cannabis industry observers say how seriously some in the sector treat marijuana regulations in the future could hinge on the outcome of a case against the former CannTrust Holdings Inc. leaders, whose company was caught growing pot in unlicensed rooms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin

Tough ruling against former cannabis execs could send message: experts

CannTrust found to have been growing thousand of kilograms of cannabis in unlicensed rooms

Cannabis cuttings are photographed at the CannTrust Niagara Greenhouse Facility during the grand opening event in Fenwick, Ont., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Cannabis industry observers say how seriously some in the sector treat marijuana regulations in the future could hinge on the outcome of a case against the former CannTrust Holdings Inc. leaders, whose company was caught growing pot in unlicensed rooms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
Cannabis is shown in a display jar on the first morning of opening for Toronto’s “The Hunny Pot,” one of the retail stores licensed to sell Cannabis in Ontario, on Monday, April 1, 2019. Toronto cannabis shoppers will soon be able to request cannabis deliveries through Uber Eats. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Cannabis is shown in a display jar on the first morning of opening for Toronto’s “The Hunny Pot,” one of the retail stores licensed to sell Cannabis in Ontario, on Monday, April 1, 2019. Toronto cannabis shoppers will soon be able to request cannabis deliveries through Uber Eats. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Cannabis buds lay along a drying rack at the CannTrust Niagara Greenhouse Facility in Fenwick, Ont., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Federal ministers are expected to launch a long-awaited review of the government’s cannabis legislation today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin

How is cannabis legalization going? Feds launch overdue review to find out

Century-long prohibition on the recreational use and sale of cannabis lifted in October 2018

Cannabis buds lay along a drying rack at the CannTrust Niagara Greenhouse Facility in Fenwick, Ont., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Federal ministers are expected to launch a long-awaited review of the government’s cannabis legislation today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
Medical marijuana is shown in Toronto, Nov. 5, 2017. An internal audit outlining significant problems with Ottawa’s administration of hundreds of millions of dollars in medical marijuana for veterans is being met with shock and concern by mental-health providers and others.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy

‘Wild West’: Audit on veterans’ medical cannabis sparks calls for oversight, research

Probe sparks calls to better protect at-risk veterans and taxpayer dollars

Medical marijuana is shown in Toronto, Nov. 5, 2017. An internal audit outlining significant problems with Ottawa’s administration of hundreds of millions of dollars in medical marijuana for veterans is being met with shock and concern by mental-health providers and others.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy