As you kick off the week, here are five things making news in the cannabis industry:
NICHE Blog: Talking to Your Child about Cannabis: Parents are Educators too!; Cannabis prohibition has meant that children, teenagers, and older youth have not received adequate tools to make sound decisions about cannabis...
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...
Canadian Cannabis Update is a Canadian-based podcast, delivering regular news updates and interviews concerning the legalization of cannabis.
This latest episode features Alex Blumenstein, CEO of Leaf Forward, who talks about his company's system of identifying intelligent start ups, then backing them financially.
According to a recent Ipsos poll commissioned by Tetra Bio-Pharma, it seems that Canadians believe that "Doctor Knows Best" when it comes to recommending cannabis for a medical ailment, even though they are less convinced that they are well enough informed to treat them with it.
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...
A new video was released this week that aims to de-stigmatize cannabis use.
Welcome to The New Normal is a two-minute "journey through America’s complex history with cannabis" directed by Spike Jonze, posted under MedMen's" YouTube account.
"Learn more about...
CBD is all the rage, but how does it truly impact the brain?
A new clinical trial aims to discover out more about the popular drug.
Koios Beverage Corp. announced on Nov. 8 that it will be initiating a study that intends to find out more how CBD affects the human...
With the legalization of marijuana in Canada happening this week, the Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada (THiA) has released survey results that suggests 20 per cent of Canadians planning to travel this year are unaware of the implications of travelling with pot.
Additionally, 22 per cent of respondents with...
A quick look at some recent news in the cannabis industry:
Vancouver-based extraction tech company Nextleaf Solutions Ltd. has entered into an agreement with its commercialization partner Nextleaf Labs Ltd. A release notes that through Nextleaf's “existing intellectual property (IP) and infrastructure, OILS...
New study led by NEEKA Health Canada will test if CBD-based therapies can reduce the severity of post-concussion brain disorders in former NHL players
A study exploring cannabinoids and concussions is set to begin this summer, in a partnership between the NHL...
