Tag: Canada

Analysis Finds Legal Canadian Cannabis Has Largely Displaced Unregulated Market

Written by Johnny Green on May 12, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

A major goal of every jurisdiction that has modernized its cannabis policies to permit adult-use cannabis activity is to help combat the unregulated market, including in Canada, where lawmakers adopted...

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Canada: Alcohol A “Greater Threat To Road Safety” Than Cannabis

Written by Frank Schuler on May 4, 2025. Posted in Science.

When it comes to cannabis policy modernization efforts, two of the most popular talking points within the cannabis opponent community are that ‘cannabis reform will harm children’ and that...

Study Finds Canadian Legalization Is ‘Displacing Illegal Cannabis Market’

Written by Frank Schuler on April 14, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

Canada became the second country to ever adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure in 2018 and was the first G-7 nation to adopt the public policy change. The first country to adopt a...

Israel Announces 165% Tariffs On Canadian Cannabis

Written by Hazel Norman on April 14, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

Israel is an international leader in medical cannabis in many ways, having allowed legal medical cannabis activity by patients going back to the 1990s. It is also considered the birthplace of modern...

Legal Cannabis Sales Spike In Canada As Alcohol Sales Plummet

Written by Hazel Norman on March 22, 2025. Posted in Business.

Canada was the second country to adopt a national recreational cannabis legalization law and remains the most robust nationwide legal adult-use cannabis market on the planet. Uruguay legalized cannabis...

Cannabis Consumption Is Associated With Lower Opioid Usage Rates

Written by Frank Schuler on March 8, 2025. Posted in Science.

Cannabis opponents have historically portrayed the cannabis plant as a ‘gateway drug.’ Members of the mainstream media have also perpetuated this stereotype, as have film makers going back...

Legal Retail Cannabis Isn’t Associated With Rise In Emergency Department Visits

Written by Frank Schuler on January 31, 2025. Posted in Business, Science.

Canada was not the first country to adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure. That distinct title goes to Uruguay, which legalized recreational cannabis in 2013, five years before Canada...

Canadian Patients Report Significant Reductions In Pain Following Cannabis Use

Written by Frank Schuler on January 31, 2025. Posted in Science.

Canada was at the forefront of medical cannabis policy modernization, having adopted national medical cannabis reform in 2001. Canada remains an international leader in the emerging legal global medical...

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Canadian Legalization Not Associated With Increase In Work Hour Use

Written by Frank Schuler on January 11, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Canada adopted a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure in 2018. Leading up to the adoption of the measure, many cannabis opponents predicted that, among other things, legalization would lead...