Last year, Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada’s largest pharmacy chain, applied to Health Canada to become a distributor of licensed medical cannabis. At the time it made sense. The newest users of cannabis weren’t—and still aren’t—teens and young adults, but aging baby boomers who would rather shop at a familiar...
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It’s official: autumn is here, and we’re loving it. Bubbling hearty soups, warm kitchens and friends gathered around the dinner table is what makes life’s little moments a big deal. Incorporate the bounty of fall vegetables and the healing qualities of...
Associate editor Fabian Dawson takes a quick look at the diverse range of voices that is shaping the Great Canadian Cannabis Conversation.
THE DOCTORS
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA), which unites over 85,000 physicians on national health and medical matters, wants the legal age for consumption to be amended to 21,...
Five years in, here’s how legalization has shaped our neighbors in the Pacific Northwest.
In November 2012, Washington State legalized recreational marijuana. And almost immediately, things started to change.
“Within a month of the law having passed, prosecutors across the state dismissed current pending charges for possession of marijuana,” says attorney...
In 2013, I found out I was pregnant. Once I decided to have an abortion, I spent hours relentlessly researching what was about to happen. I read countless testimonials and obsessively memorized the steps of the procedure—from the consultation to the cookies and ginger ale in the recovery room....
The new Canadian dream? Creating a home-grown cannabis empire. Meet three locals who have traded it all in to pursue the green rush.
Since the dawn of the internet, there is arguably no other emerging industry in the modern era more disruptive, polarizing, terrifying, contentious and potentially more lucrative than...
Synergies between medical marijuana and traditional Chinese medicine treatments are growing as we move into a new era of patient care.
he advent of spring in Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province, is a time when the annual rush for “green gold” begins.
Here on the frosty Chinese-Russian border, naturally divided by the...
A new post-secondary program at B.C.’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University prepares students for the green rush.
Your university years are a time of exploration. They’re a time to study the classics, a foreign language, or the nature of the universe.
But marijuana? Well, that may not be a pipe dream anymore.
Kwantlen Polytechnic...
As the baby boomer population ages, its members are turning to cannabis in record numbers—and changing the expectations of the industry.
Walter Sorto wasn’t sure how his mother would react when he told her he wanted to get into the cannabis business. She didn’t like it when he smoked cannabis...
Last week our company was invited to participate in a stakeholder meeting with Health Canada in Ottawa along with a select number of other stakeholders. As has always been the theme song with Health Canada in the last six months, the atmosphere was forward-thinking and transparent. The goal of...
