Tag: Health Canada

Vancouver the Dark Grey Market

Canadian Cannabis: The Dark Grey Market Cannabis in Canada is still widely illegal. With a new government entering parliament in 2016, the odds of legalization, further criminalization, or decriminalization of marijuana coming to fruition are still to be determined. But despite that, black-market growers and […]

Read more ›

Cannabis Oil Sales Legal in Canada

Cannabis oil, fresh marijuana now available following Supreme Court decision Forms of marijuana used for everything from brownies to lip balms are now legally available following Health Canada’s swift response to Supreme Court ruling.  By: Stephanie Levitz The Canadian Press, Published on Wed Jul 08 2015 OTTAWA—Rules that […]

Read more ›

MMAR Court Case Update

John Conroy MMAR Court Case Update | May 22 2015 Urban Remo talks with Lawyer John Conroy about the MMAR Court Case and the constitutional challenge in Canada… Video source Remo the Urban Grower ➜ http://www.remonutrients.com/ ➜ http://twitter.com/theurbangrower ➜ http://instagram.com/theurbangrower ➜ https://www.facebook.com/theUrbanGrower

Read more ›

Expensive Marijuana Bunkers

Island ‘potpreneurs’ and their expensive marijuana bunkers Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist Past a barbed-wire fence and motion sensors, and under the gaze of 31 cameras, Shawn Galbraith opens the door to a two-storey, windowless concrete structure amid the lush Central Saanich farmland. It’s the region’s […]

Read more ›

Pot patient wants edibles

Banning medical pot patients from taking edibles violates charter: BCCLA The Canadian Press The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to allow medical marijuana patients more choice in how they take their pot. Under the current law they can only […]

Read more ›

Medical marijuana in Canada’s highest court

Medical marijuana cookie case hits Canada’s high court by  Jeff Nagel – BC Local News posted Mar 22, 2015 at 6:00 PM Turning medical marijuana into cookies, tea or oil should not be a criminal act that risks jail time, a B.C. lawyer told the Supreme Court of Canada […]

Read more ›

Jail rather than stop growing medicinal

Jail me, medical marijuana activist says TIM CALLANAN | THE CANADIAN PRESS Published March 12, 2015 – 8:00am A medical marijuana user says he would rather go to jail than stop growing his own pot after changes to Health Canada regulations preventing cultivation at home. Bob […]

Read more ›

Health Canada checks on CEN Biotech

Public told to contact police with concerns over marijuana firm GRANT ROBERTSON The Globe and Mail Health Canada is instructing anyone with concerns about CEN Biotech – the company seeking to become the country’s largest medical marijuana producer – to contact police or securities regulators. The unusual […]

Read more ›

Injunction for pot growers upheld

Injunction for pot growers upheld Your browser does not support frames. Click here to view the frameless video.. Mon, Dec 15 – Dana Larsen talks to Aaron McArthur about what a new ruling on growing pot means for medical marijuana users. Post source Global News

Read more ›

Bhango in the Eastern Townships

Medical marijuana grower looks to set up shop in Eastern Townships A Montreal-based company is hoping to be the first to open a large medical marijuana grow-op in the Eastern Townships. Bhango Horticulture has found a property in the township of Potton where it hopes to start operations […]

Read more ›

Cookie Power: How Cookies Changed The Law

Cookie Power: How Baking Cookies Has Changed The Law BY TED SMITH By Ted Smith Last week the BC Court of Appeal struck down the federal regulationsrestricting patients to using dried marijuana in a case regarding Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club ex-baker Owen Smith.  Patients now have the legal […]

Read more ›

Canadian Cannabis (documentary series)

VICE has put together an informative series hosted by Damian Abraham of F-ck’d Up who travels around the country learning about using cannabis with Canadians Part 1  INSIDE CANADA’S NEW CORPORATE WEED SYSTEM In this episode of Canadian Cannabis, Damian visits two gigantic weed factories in […]

Read more ›

Calgary fights legal medical grow ops

City steps up fight against legal residential marijuana grow ops BY TREVOR HOWELL, CALGARY HERALD AUGUST 4, 2014 The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team says it is known that some people with federal licences “are hiding behind their licences to traffic in marijuana.” A move to […]

Read more ›

Ross’ Gold pot distribution startup

Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati to brand medical marijuana B.C.’s Ross’ Gold, a budding startup, hopes to get involved in pot distribution across Canada CBC News Posted: Jul 16, 2014 5:04 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 17, 2014 1:49 PM ET Dot-bong boom 6:02 Related Stories Medical marijuana users […]

Read more ›

Big Plans for Remo Cannabrands

Ridge marijuana company has big plans Sandra and Remo Colasanti with their trademark clone ‘Remo’s Roots’. — Image Credit: Colleen Flanagan/The News by  Monisha Martins – Maple Ridge News posted Jul 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM— updated Jul 11, 2014 at 12:33 PM A Maple Ridge marijuana company is going public with an injection […]

Read more ›

Court of Appeal on cannabis extract case

Appeal decision soon in cannabis extract case    BY TED SMITH  Ted Smith It has been just over 6 months since the BC Court of Appeal heard arguments in the Owen Smith cannabis derivatives case.  The stakes are high on both sides, and the results of […]

Read more ›

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 […]

Read more ›

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 […]

Read more ›

Step by step: Processing medical marijuana

Below are excerpts from the Ottawa Citizen posting by James Bagnall ‘From high-tech to pot: the business that might be the next big thing’  showcasing the step-by-step process of Tweed Marijuana inc. Tweed lists 23 marijuana variants in its online store, although the company expects to […]

Read more ›

Conversation with a former marijuana smuggler

Brian O’dea smuggled 75 tonnes of marijuana into the United States during the 1970’s and 1980’s. After struggling with an addiction to cocaine he decided to get out of the drug trade. Three years later the DEA arrested him and Brian was sentenced to 10 […]

Read more ›

Health Canada orders Purple Kush recall

Don’t smoke the Purple Kush: medical marijuana recalled By Trevor Greenway Justin TangA man smokes a joint at the Fill the Hill marijuana rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sunday, April 20, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang A medical marijuana production facility in British Columbia […]

Read more ›

Health Canada guidelines against marihuana

Health Canada Medical Pot Guidelines Diss Medical Pot Repeatedly The Huffington Post Canada  |  Posted: 04/18/2014 12:24 pm EDT  |  Updated: 04/18/2014 12:59 pm EDT If you’re wondering why many Canadian doctors are so reluctant to prescribe marijuana to patients, Health Canada’s information site for health-care providers might provide some clues. […]

Read more ›

New marijuana laws set stage for growth

Canada’s new marijuana laws set stage for growth By Will Connors Bloomberg Marijuana buds and one hundred Canadian bank notes ($C100) are arranged for a photograph in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For 11 years, Brent Zettl and Prairie Plant Systems Inc. cornered the market for government-approved […]

Read more ›

Tweed’s first weed seized by RCMP

Canada’s first publicly traded marijuana company has rough first day when pot shipment seized by RCMP Douglas Quan , Postmedia News | April 4, 2014 7:57 PM ET Tweed, based in a former chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Ontario, said Friday it purchased more than 60 new strains of […]

Read more ›