Items tagged with canada
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| Bankers circling Europe's growing cannabis market [05.03.2019] | Investors who are eager for the cannabis industry in Europe to emulate the boom in pot-stock listings in Canada may not have much longer to wait, jud ... |
| Sweet smell of success? Big business bets on a marijuana boom [02.03.2019] | To listen to some of the predictions about the future of the cannabis industry, you would think financial analysts had been partaking heavily of the ... |
| Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs [01.03.2019] | If New Zealand votes to legalise cannabis in 2020’s binding referendum, we will have a unique opportunity on our hands. Creating a licit market from ... |
| Sell regulated heroin to drug users to reduce overdose deaths: B.C. group [21.02.2019] | Heroin addicts should be granted access to a clean supply of the drug provided through “compassion clubs” similar to those that provide medical marij ... |
| The cannabis black market will control 71 per cent of sales in Canada this year, Scotiabank says [13.02.2019] | A new research note from Scotiabank analysts estimate that the black market will control 71 percent of cannabis sales in Canada in 2019. The logistic ... |
| Invest in marijuana? What are you smoking? [11.02.2019] | The rapid rise of marijuana legalization has created what some people call a bubble for marijuana stocks. It’s reminiscent of the dot-com craze in 19 ... |
| What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja [11.02.2019] | Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively ... |
| Cannabis co-ops seek to bring small producers, processors into legal market [10.02.2019] | British Columbia may be famous for its bud but some say Canada's new marijuana legalization framework is excluding the small producers with establish ... |
| Why legal cannabis growers can’t compete with the black market — yet [01.02.2019] | Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains. “There’s all kin ... |
| Canada’s cannabis shortage could be over quicker than we thought, researcher says [01.02.2019] | If Canada’s licensed cannabis producers continue ramping up production at their current exponential pace, there will be more than enough pot to meet ... |
| Cannabis comes to Davos, sharing spotlight with global elites [28.01.2019] | If more proof was needed that cannabis is becoming accepted by the world’s financial and political elite, what better place to find it than at the Sw ... |
| How Canopy Growth became the jolly green giant of cannabis [24.01.2019] | The common wisdom among investors and analysts in the cannabis industry has been that bigger is better. They predict that cannabis will follow the pa ... |
| After legalization: Four things to know about cannabis in Quebec [17.01.2019] | In Quebec — where the product is sold by the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) — legalization has highlighted the province’s thirs ... |
| Luxembourg in talks with Canada over how to legalise recreational cannabis [16.01.2019] | Discussions between Luxembourg and Canada are under way to establish how the Grand Duchy will legalise cannabis and sell the drug for recreational us ... |
| Enjoy it while you can Cannabis Canada, your edge is already eroding [11.01.2019] | A number of industry insiders who argue that the level of government control and intervention in the cannabis landscape in Canada, coupled with the s ... |
| Legal pot costs almost 50 per cent more than pot bought on the black market: StatCan [09.01.2019] | A legal gram of cannabis in Canada costs nearly 50 per cent more than illicit pot, according to a new analysis of price quotes compiled by Statistics ... |
| Canada legalized pot in October. But its black market is still going strong [05.01.2019] | The legal cannabis stores that opened here last fall still look pristine. Curious customers file in, but the shelves they peruse are often bare. Supp ... |
| The great fentanyl myth, and how we’re killing drug users [04.01.2019] | Our moral failure flows from the fact that we know what to do, but accept a policy that is killing our fellow citizens. The Vancouver Police Departme ... |
| Cannabis firms in conflict of interest for owning both pot producers and marijuana clinics, critics charge [27.12.2018] | When doctors at the Solace Health Network of cannabis clinics prescribe their patients medical marijuana, one government-licensed producer of the dru ... |
| Tilray goes global with Novartis marijuana sales partnership [18.12.2018] | Tilray Inc. has signed a global partnership with a division of Swiss drug giant Novartis AG to develop and distribute its medical marijuana in legal ... |
| Safer opioids actively being reviewed for epidemic: chief public health officer [12.12.2018] | Public health officials across Canada are seriously considering increasing the supply of safer opioids to quell a crisis that newly released data sho ... |
| Marlboro owner Altria invests $1.8 billion in cannabis company Cronos [07.12.2018] | Tobacco giant Altira is investing $1.8 billion in Canadian cannabis company Cronos Group. That will give Altria a 45% stake in the company, with an o ... |
| Cannabis firm confirms investment talks with Marlboro maker [04.12.2018] | Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is in talks with a Canadian cannabis producer over a potential investment in the firm. Canada's Cronos Grou ... |
| Marijuana, mountains and money: How Lesotho is cashing in [28.11.2018] | Lesotho is aiming to make money from the booming medicinal marijuana industry, but the southern African nation already has an unheralded illicit trad ... |
| Dr Benedikt Fischer: Canada provides lessons on legal cannabis [27.11.2018] | New Zealand is debating its cannabis policy, a process that led to legalisation of cannabis use and supply in Canada just last month. Since the two c ... |
| Pot growers turn to gifting, trading with no legal way to buy cannabis seeds in Canada [27.11.2018] | Cannabis consumers who can’t buy seeds are finding creative ways to grow their own pot. Even though the federal government made it legal on Oct. 17 t ... |
| Greece eyes pot of gold as medicinal cannabis licensed [19.11.2018] | Greece issued the first licences to private companies for growing medicinal cannabis in the country, part of an attempt to tap a burgeoning market wo ... |
| Cannabis industry says it needs more approved growers to meet Canadian demand [12.11.2018] | More fully-licensed cannabis growers and cultivation space are needed to meet a voracious demand for legal marijuana, a spokesman for the industry sa ... |
| Canada’s message to teenagers: Marijuana is legal now. Please don’t smoke it [11.11.2018] | Canada became the second country to make it legal for adults to buy, grow and consume small amounts of marijuana. But it also made it a crime to give ... |
| Cannabis companies race to clinch an edge in pot industry’s next phase of growth: Intellectual property [09.11.2018] | A report by the Bank of Montreal, which assumed a blue-sky scenario in which the U.S. and all 28 countries in the European Union legalize marijuana f ... |
| Weed woes: Canada struggles to meet huge demand for legal cannabis [04.11.2018] | Two weeks after Canada became the first G20 country to legalize cannabis amid much fanfare, numerous stores – both physical and digital – are struggl ... |
| Cannabis producers could be chasing global market worth $194 billion in seven years: BMO report [01.11.2018] | The potential of the global cannabis industry is so vast that it could eventually make the sky-high valuations of some Canadian licensed producers lo ... |
| Pardons don't go far enough. Convictions for cannabis possession must be expunged [29.10.2018] | Today, more than 500,000 Canadians are encumbered with a criminal record for doing something that is now legal: possessing a small amount (30 grams o ... |
| Pot pioneers who went to jail for the cause now watch legal opportunities pass them by [25.10.2018] | At the outset of legalization, people who defied prohibition in high-profile ways appear to be getting shut out of a burgeoning industry just as the ... |
| Bong arm of the law: South Korea says it will arrest citizens who smoke weed in Canada [23.10.2018] | For South Koreans in Canada, the police in their home country have no problem harshing their mellow. Canada became the second country in the world to ... |
| Russia warns Canada cannabis legalization will lead to increased trafficking [23.10.2018] | Russia has denounced Canada's cannabis legalization, calling it "unacceptable" and contrary to international laws, and saying it will lead to increas ... |
| Mexico may be next to legalise marijuana, says incoming FM [23.10.2018] | Mexico "absolutely" could follow Canada's lead in legalising marijuana as a way to reduce violence generated by a war on drugs that "doesn't work," i ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Cannabis in Canada: Pardoning people for possession isn't enough [20.10.2018] | Canadians will get pardons if they were convicted of possessing marijuana before it was legalised. That means their criminal record for cannabis poss ... |
| Advocates say black market will thrive until small pot growers and sellers are included [17.10.2018] | “It’s not fair to expect the government to deliver everything perfectly Day 1 when this is a huge transition,” said Ian Dawkins, president of the Can ... |
| Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries [17.10.2018] | For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments to grow cannabis as a cash crop. But as Canada be ... |
| Cannabis Amnesty welcomes Liberal government's promise of pardons, but says they require "four central features" [17.10.2018] | The half-million Canadians with criminal records for cannabis possession received some encouraging news. Four Liberal cabinet ministers held a news c ... |
| Cannabis Day 1: How Canada greeted legalization from coast to coast [17.10.2018] | From St. John’s to Vancouver, from Southern Ontario to the Far North, Canada’s nearly century-old prohibition on recreational cannabis lifted on Wedn ... |
| Globe editorial: With legal pot, Canada sets an example for other countries [17.10.2018] | And so, here we go. The recreational use of cannabis is now legal in Canada, making ours only the second country, after tiny Uruguay, to take a leap ... |
| UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization [17.10.2018] | After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) slammed the decision in a statement calling the ... |
| Dazed and confused: Canada cannabis legalization brings complex new laws [16.10.2018] | Canada will this week become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, but as they negotiate a patchwork of new legislation ... |
| Cannabis in Canada: Who wins and who loses under new law [15.10.2018] | Canada is about to become the second nation to fully legalise recreational cannabis. When prohibition comes to an end on 17 October, Canadian adults ... |
| How the biggest pot stocks plan to win in what is about to become a 'brutal' industry [15.10.2018] | The cannabis hype is about to come face-to-face with reality. After Canada legalizes recreational marijuana on Oct. 17, it will only take a quarter o ... |
| Pot companies failing at financial reporting, regulator says [10.10.2018] | Cannabis companies are failing to adequately disclose even basic financial information to shareholders — from cost of production to fair value assess ... |
| Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? [03.10.2018] | The cannabis industry’s moral challenge is to ensure the groups who have suffered the most under the drug war can participate in the green rush and e ... |
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