Category: Business

Toronto’s 1st medical cannabis clinic

Desperate patients seek relief at Toronto marijuana clinic By StaffTorstar News Service Torstar News ServiceToronto’s first medicinal marijuana clinic had it’s opening day on Danforth Ave. The door to the medical office opens slowly, and a woman steps into the cool interior. The 72-year-old has […]

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Two Big Things in Colorado Six Months After Legalization

Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado  By Chris Miles  July 1, 2014 It’s now been six months since Colorado enacted its historic marijuana legalization policy, and two big things have already happened: 1. Colorado’s cash crop is turning out to be even […]

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Matt Mernagh presents SEEDS Unboxing & Giveaway

Dopechef and The Cannabis Champion team-up for a SEEDS Giveaway!!! Attention Canadian youtube.com/DopechefMedia subscribers: Matt Mernagh presents GARDEN-OF-GREEN and EXPERT SEEDS product unboxing. Matt discusses auto-flowering strains and growing recommendations. Plus stay tuned for an exclusive contest for dopechef subscribers IN CANADA over the next […]

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Former Mountie heads security at medical grow-op

Former Nanaimo Mountie heads security at marijuana operation Jake Ryan, a former RCMP criminal intelligence officer, has taken the job as head of security with medicinal marijuana grower Tilray. — Image Credit: CHRIS BUSH/The News Bulletin    by  Chris Bush – Nanaimo News Bulletin When 30 grams […]

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Marc Emery is coming home soon

In anticipation for the upcoming return of the Prince of Pot Marc Emery from the U.S. prison system, DopeChef has posted a big gallery of pics from Marc Emery’s farewell tour event at Vapor Central, the historic July 16th 2009 event in Toronto: VIEW THE GALLERY ^ FREE […]

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Top 10 countries that smoke marijuana

The United Nations just released its annual World Drug Report for 2014. The report, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, summarizes data on various illegal drugs around the globe, including marijuana. Along with drug trafficking updates, the UN also provides a breakdown […]

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Infographic: Legal weed’s consequences

Infographic: Legal weed’s consequences Six months later, how have recreational pot shops affected Colorado? Sam Bollier and Sam Koebrich Viewing this from your mobile? Click here Article source Al Jazeera

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Famous Marijuana Smuggler Slams Legal Pot Investors

Famous Marijuana Smuggler Slams Legal Pot Investors By Matt Mernagh – Wednesday, July 2 2014   Canadian marijuana smuggler Brian O’Dea calls out legal cannabis investors over their responsibility to freeing people in prison for pot. In a recent DopeChef YouTube report he talks about giving a presentation […]

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Cannabis: new opportunities for women

Cannabis: A new job frontier for women? Interesting coincidence. The White House Summit on Working Families last week issued some statistics that underscored continuing challenges of gender inequality in the workplace. At around the same time, at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver, a group of female business […]

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the Prince of Pot is returning this summer

Marc Emery’s not done yet ‘Prince of Pot’ eager to take up legalization fight after release from U.S. prison Marc Emery smoking a joint among marijuana plants. The self-styled “Prince of Pot” is returning to Canada this summer following a five-year prison sentence in the U.S. […]

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Vape Tings Dem Come

THE SPRAWL The Vape of Things to Come Toronto vapor cafes continue to serve the patron while bucking the system. By Jonathan Hiltz June 25th, 2014 Torontonians have always been familiar with that signature smell of marijuana wafting from alleyways, apartment building windows and other out […]

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NXNE at Vapor Central

Toronto’s marquee downtown vapour lounge played venue host to the North-By-North-East Festival (NXNE) this year June 13th-22nd, 2014.  Check out some of the entertainment on these livestream archives from Vapor Central: Vapor Central is located at 667 Yonge Street, Toronto VAPOR CENTRAL

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Tweed opens for business

Medical marijuana producer Tweed opens for business June 23, 2014 Tweed Inc. of Smith Falls, Ont., is one of 20 licensed medical marijuana producers in Canada that began shipping its weed to registered users last month. Its 168,000-square-foot facility in a former Hershey chocolate factory […]

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Jodie Emery at ideacity

Jodie Emery on Marc’s Return at Moses Znaimer’s ideacity By Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture – Thursday, June 19 2014 CANNABIS CULTURE – Marijuana activist and Cannabis Culture Publisher Jodie Emery spoke today at Moses Znaimer’s ideacity about the upcoming release of her husband Marc Emery from US prison. In […]

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HIGH: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler

A hard-hitting Conspiracy Culture talk featuring Brian O’Dea, author of ‘High‘, about his past life in the drug trade and doing time… FULL EVENT COVERAGE ‘High: Confessions of a pot smuggler’ an evening at Conspiracy Culture with author and producer Brian O’Dea… recorded on May […]

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Canada’s Medical Marijuana Profiteers Boycott

Boycott Canada’s Medical Marijuana Profiteers By David Malmo-Levine – Thursday, June 12 2014 Moreover the riches of the earth are for all … – Ecclesiastes 5:9, the Peshitta (Aramaic Bible), circa 2nd century BCE That we may work in righteousness, and lay the Foundation of making the […]

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Former Marijuana Smuggler calls out Current Marijuana Investors

Excerpted from  author and producer Brian O’Dea talks about his speech in Vancouver to a well-suited audience of stock investors looking to get into the marijuana business and urging them to remember the drug war prisoners… Stay tuned for full event coverage soon, more info: […]

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Ross Rebagliati on Press for Truth

Dan Dicks of Press For Truth sits down with Olympic Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati to talk about the circumstances in which he lost and regained his gold medal and how that subsequently led to the formation of “Ross’ Gold” a Canadian medical cannabis company which […]

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DopeChef does Champs Expo

DopeChef Does Toronto Champs Cannabis Expo By Matt Mernagh – Friday, June 6 2014 Toronto videographer DopeChef and I did some spontaneous video segments together during Toronto Champs cannabis expo a few weeks back and he’s just released the footage. The segments offer a glimpse of some of the […]

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CHAMPS EXPO “The Kitchen” book

Dopechef interviews author/photographer/grower Jay Kitchen about “The Kitchen” a full-size hardcover cannabis coffee-table book. More info about the book check UptownGrowLab   Thanks to CHAMPS Canada

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CHAMPS EXPO Shawn Tedder of Gold Stars

Dopechef gets some words with Shawn Tedder at the Gold Stars Team – John Turmel booth during Champs Expo 2014. Topics incude medical marijuana, price of pot, weed vending machines, BC, John Conroy court injunction, Justin Trudeau, John Turmel, Free Marc Emery, licensed producer consulting, […]

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CHAMPS EXPO Grassroots California

Ryan Ruga Connolly from Grassroots California talks to Dopechef about the top caps and apparel coming out of Denver by way of LA, flagship store at 2209 Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado   Topics include: Legal cannabis in Denver, relationship with NORML, Method Man, legalization […]

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CHAMPS EXPO Darryl Hudson of Peace Naturals

Matt Mernagh interviews Dr. Darryl Hudson, PhD., Chief of research and quality assurance with the Peace Naturals Project, at the Cannabis Champion’s booth during the Champs Canada expo with some sample canisters of K-Farms medicinal cannabis. Peace Naturals Video recorded on May 25, 2014. Matt […]

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Smoking Weed with the President of Uruguay

Full length VICE documentary (28 mins) At the end of 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana. VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu headed over to Uruguay to check out how the country is adjusting to a legally regulated marijuana market. […]

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