Want to know what the future of cannabis legalization will hold? Just look back to the wine industry’s past.
Even without a firm date for the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada, every province and territory across the country has announced a general framework for its wholesale distribution and retail....
Cannabis activist Daphnée Elisma shares how cannabis’s pain-reducing powers helped her through some of the darkest moments of her life.
Back in 2010, I started having really bad headaches. I hadn’t been prone to migraines or anything before, so even though my vision began to blur, I didn’t take my...
A women-led community offers a hub for personal stories and entrepreneurial empowerment.
It’s as if the end of cannabis prohibition was timed perfectly to harmonize with the resurgence of a women’s movement. Discovered centuries ago by women in hunter-gatherer communities, cannabis was commonly used to treat a litany of labour,...
This summer, Canada will become the first advanced industrialized nation to legalize and regulate cannabis from production to consumption. As the federal government creates history this year, many are hoping that the safe transition to legal cannabis will lead to a new normal: the subtle mainstreaming of cannabis consumption.
Because...
The beauty industry embraces the power of the plant.
The benefits of hemp oil have long been known to the health and beauty industry, and high-profile brands such as the Body Shop and Dr. Bronner’s have used the ingredient for years. Now, with the mainstreaming of marijuana in North America,...
Health Canada caught the cannabis industry by surprise in November when they unveiled sweeping changes to the regulatory approach to cannabis. The proposed regulations outline how the government will control production and distribution come July 2018.
Among other changes, the new rules they have proposed open the door to craft...
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...
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...
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...
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...
