Tag: Canada

Written by Frank Schuler on August 7, 2022. Posted in Business, Policy.

Cannabis Purchasing Habits Continue To Shift In British Columbia

British Columbia has long been home to a vibrant and robust cannabis community. People have flocked to British Columbia for cannabis...

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Written by Frank Schuler on July 26, 2022. Posted in Science.

Cannabis A “Common Treatment” For Chronic Pain Survey Finds

Chronic pain is arguably the most common health condition found around the world, with an estimated one out of every 5 adults suffering...

Written by Frank Schuler on July 4, 2022. Posted in Science.

Study Finds Most Likely Reasons For Canadian Medical Cannabis Use

People use cannabis for a variety of reasons, including and especially wellness purposes. Whereas cannabis prohibition is a relatively...

Written by Frank Schuler on June 15, 2022. Posted in Science.

One In Five Canadian Arthritis Patients Acknowledge Using Medical Cannabis

It is estimated that as many as 350 million people around the globe suffer from arthritis. Arthritis is defined as painful inflammation...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on June 9, 2022. Posted in Policy.

British Columbia Decriminalizes Drugs – Is This A New Global Trend?

A federal exemption has allowed this Canadian province to decriminalize not only small amounts of MDMA (ecstasy) but opioids, cocaine,...

Written by Johnny Green on June 4, 2022. Posted in Business, Policy.

Taxes And Provincial Mark-Ups Are Hindering Ontario’s Cannabis Industry

The main motivation behind legalizing cannabis for adult and/or medical use should always be based on it simply being the right thing to...

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Written by Johnny Green on May 27, 2022. Posted in Archives, Business, Policy.

Researchers Identify Two Main Motivating Factors Behind Unregulated Cannabis Purchases

Legal cannabis is spreading across the planet, and with it, purchasing freedoms for some consumers. Yet, the unregulated market still...

Written by Johnny Green on May 16, 2022. Posted in Archives, Business.

Ontario Cannabis Store Data Breach Demonstrates Growing Threat

I have worked in the cannabis industry to some degree for many years now. If you count the unregulated industry here in Oregon, I am the...

Written by Johnny Green on May 16, 2022. Posted in Archives, Science.

Canadian Patients With Insomnia Report Improvements With Medical Cannabis

Insomnia is a condition in which people have a hard time falling asleep and/or staying asleep, and it is one of the most common health...

Written by Johnny Green on May 9, 2022. Posted in Archives, Science.

Canadian Cannabis Consumers Report Improvements In Insomnia

Insomnia is one of the most prevalent health conditions around the world. It is estimated that as many as 60% of the world’s...

Written by Johnny Green on May 9, 2022. Posted in Archives, Science.

New Study Looks At Cannabis, Anxiety, And Depression In Canada

Anxiety and depression are major mental health conditions that affect a significant portion of the world’s population. As many as...

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Written by Johnny Green on May 9, 2022. Posted in Archives, Policy.

Manitoba’s Home Cultivation Ban Receives Judicial Review

Canada was the first G-7 nation to legalize cannabis for adult use. Only one other country, Uruguay, legalized cannabis for adult use...

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Written by Johnny Green on May 3, 2022. Posted in Archives, Science.

Most Canadian Patients With MS Report Consuming Cannabis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious issue around the world. It is estimated that as many as 2.8 million people suffer from MS globally...

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Written by Johnny Green on April 27, 2022. Posted in Politics.

Which Country Has ‘The Best’ Cannabis Legalization Model?

Cannabis prohibition, thankfully, has not always existed. For thousands of years, humans used the cannabis plant for various purposes,...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on February 9, 2022. Posted in Business.

What Is Up With The Canna Industry’s Mid Winter Blues?

A range of indicators show that the industry, globally, is hitting a rough patch – but don’t expect this to last. There are a...

Written by Johnny Green on February 2, 2022. Posted in Business, Politics.

Cannabis Is A Major Economic Contributor In Canada

Canada was not the first country to legalize cannabis for adult use. That distinction goes to Uruguay which legalized cannabis for adult...

Written by Johnny Green on March 15, 2021. Posted in Medical.

Canada Wants To Know What You Think About Home Cultivation

Canada is an international leader when it comes to cannabis policy, and that was true prior to the country becoming the first G-7 nation...

Written by Johnny Green on August 31, 2020. Posted in Business.

Legal Cannabis Sales Outpace Unregulated Sales In Canada For The First Time

Legal adult-use cannabis sales started in Canada in 2018. Canada is only one of two countries where adult-use cannabis sales are legal,...

Written by Johnny Green on August 25, 2020. Posted in Business.

Canadian Retailers Sold A Record Amount Of Adult-Use Cannabis In June

Canada is the undeniable international cannabis leader right now. The North American nation had a well-established cannabis industry...

Written by Johnny Green on August 10, 2020. Posted in Politics.

Canada Grants Only 257 Cannabis Pardons In Program’s First Year

A cannabis offense on a person’s record can literally ruin their life. When someone is arrested and convicted of a cannabis...

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Written by Marguerite Arnold on July 28, 2020. Posted in Business.

Canada Now Has More Than 1,000 Legal Recreational Cannabis Dispensaries

It is official. Canada now has more than 1,000 dispensaries. The last official count as of mid-July was actually 1010. This is a stunning...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on July 7, 2020. Posted in Business.

Most Canadian Patients Obtaining Cannabis In Recreational Or Unregulated Markets

Despite all the reform in Canada, it appears that long-standing issues for patients have not been solved. Indeed, according to a recent...

Written by Marguerite Arnold on June 16, 2020. Posted in Business.

Where Goes The Canadian-German Export Market?

For the past several years (since 2016), Canadian exporters have sent ever-larger amounts of medical cannabis to Germany. The amount grew...

Written by Johnny Green on May 26, 2020. Posted in Medical.

Veterans Affairs Canada Spent More On Medical Cannabis Than Any Other Medication In 2019

Many military veterans all around the world suffer from one or more health conditions, often related to their years serving their...

Written by Johnny Green on March 24, 2020. Posted in Business, Politics.

Canada’s Cannabis Industry Lobbies For Economic Aid Due To Virus Fallout

The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the global economy, and the cannabis industry is no exception. Some states in the U.S. have...

Written by Johnny Green on March 10, 2020. Posted in Politics.

Canada Defends Cannabis Legalization To UN Commission

Canada was the second country to legalize cannabis for adult use, and the first G-7 nation to do so. Uruguay was the first country to...

Written by Johnny Green on February 20, 2020. Posted in Business.

Ontario Officials Accepting Public Comments On Cannabis Consumption Venue Licensing

The Ministry of the Attorney General in Ontario, Canada recently announced that it is seeking public input regarding licensing social...

Written by Johnny Green on November 4, 2019. Posted in Business.

Canada: Seniors Are The Age Group Showing The Most Growth In Cannabis Usage

For decades people were inundated with anti-cannabis propaganda all over the planet. That unfortunate phenomena still exists in many...

Written by Johnny Green on October 20, 2019. Posted in Medical.

Canada’s Arthritis Society: Sell Medical Cannabis In Pharmacies

Cannabis is medicine. That may seem like a simple statement, yet despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence to support the claim,...

Written by Johnny Green on October 19, 2019. Posted in Business.

Canadian Cannabis Company Aims To Undercut Unregulated Market Prices

One of the biggest benefits of legalizing and regulating cannabis sales is taking revenue away from the unregulated cannabis market. An...

Written by Johnny Green on October 18, 2019. Posted in Business.

What Is Canadian Cannabis Legalization 2.0?

Roughly a year ago Canada became the first G-7 nation to legalize cannabis for adult-use. Canada rolled out a regulated adult-use...

Written by Johnny Green on October 2, 2019. Posted in Business.

Cannabis Industry Adds $8.26B To Canada’s GDP According To Statistics Canada

Canada was the second country to legalize cannabis for adult use and the first to implement a regulated, open-to-all, adult-use cannabis...

Written by Johnny Green on August 26, 2019. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver.

Total Jobs In Canada’s Cannabis Industry Has Nearly Quadrupled In The Past Year

One very large benefit to reforming cannabis laws and implementing a regulated cannabis industry is the creation of jobs. Unlike many...

Written by Randy Smith on August 6, 2019. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, ICBC Berlin, Medical.

Cannabis Investment Hotspots To Still Consider

Written by: Marguerite Arnold International Cannabis Investment Hotspots That Aren’t Canada Canada always has a lot of buzz as a...

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 11, 2019. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, Politics.

Colombia Is Looking to Join Canada As a Global Cannabis Industry Leader

Canada has led the global cannabis industry ever since it first legalized medical cannabis. For awhile, the Netherlands was the only...

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 3, 2019. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, Cultural.

Canada Has Seen a 40% Increase in Cannabis Consumption

Canada has clearly been a global cannabis industry leader since it first legalized medical use in 2001 a trend that has only grown as the...

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Written by Anthony Johnson on June 4, 2019. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, Politics.

Canadian Cannabis Infused Edibles and Products to Be a $2.7 Billion Market

Like a lot of places that have legalized regulated cannabis commerce, Canada has experienced some growing pains. The transition from a...

Written by Anthony Johnson on October 26, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC San Francisco.

Cannabis Shortage Forces Quebec Stores to Close 3 Days a Week

The demand for cannabis across Canada has been, well, high (no way to avoid that pun this Friday), surprising no one that has a lot of...

Written by Anthony Johnson on October 17, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC San Francisco, CBC Vancouver, Cultural, ICBC Barcelona, ICBC Berlin, Politics.

Congratulations and Thank You for Legalizing Cannabis, Canada!

October 17, 2018, the long-awaited day that cannabis goes legal across Canada has arrived and the world will never be the same. With all...

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 31, 2018. Posted in Policy.

Portugal Legalizes Medical Cannabis, Must Improve Law Soon

Portugal has been a leader in reforming the failed War on Drugs, decriminalizing the personal use of all drugs back in 2001. By all...

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 12, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Portland, Cultural, Politics.

Border War: Americans Set to Invade Canada…for Cannabis

Rightwing provocateur Alex Jones recently received some well-deserved ridicule for claiming that American liberals were going to...

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 10, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Portland, CBC Vancouver.

Canadian Investors Still Bullish on Legal Cannabis

While at the International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last month, it was easy to feel the excitement...

Written by ICBC Staff on June 22, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, Cultural, Social.

Vancouver ICBC Kicks Off This Sunday!

Cannabis law reformers and industry participants have a lot of reasons to celebrate and there’s no better place to be than the...

Written by Anthony Johnson on May 31, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, Medical.

Germany Still Set to Be Biggest Importer of Canadian Cannabis

Everyone paying attention to the international cannabis business industry knows that Canadian companies have been leading the global...

Written by Amber Iris Langston on April 17, 2018. Posted in CBC Vancouver, Science.

Canadian Cities Testing Sewage to Determine Use of Cannabis and Other Drugs

If you thought you could hide your drug use forever, you’re in for a surprise. One of the problems with analyzing the drug war has...

Written by Amber Iris Langston on April 9, 2018. Posted in CBC Portland, CBC Vancouver, ICBC Berlin, Politics.

Anti-Cannabis Conservatives Seek U.S. Help to Stop Legalization in Canada, the ICBC to Have the Latest

Three Canadian Conservative Party senators who are charged with assisting the transition to legal cannabis for adult-use in their country...

Written by Amber Iris Langston on April 5, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, ICBC Berlin, Politics.

How Long Will Canada Lead the International Cannabis Market?

In the past couple of years, the hot word in the cannabis industry has been Canada. With an established medical cannabis system and a...

Written by Amber Iris Langston on March 20, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, Medical, Politics.

Could Germany Become the World’s Largest Cannabis Market?

You may not know this, but Germany is kind of a big deal. In fact, with an impressive 82 million person population, Germany is the...

Written by Amber Iris Langston on March 13, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Portland, CBC Vancouver, ICBC Berlin, Politics.

Prohibition Problems at the US-Canada Border for Non-Cannabis Industries

While the US lags behind Canada and other countries moving toward more friendly federal cannabis policies, some are predicting a negative...

Written by Amber Iris Langston on March 2, 2018. Posted in Business, CBC Vancouver, ICBC Berlin.

Canadian Cannabis on the Island of Malta?

Canadian cannabis seems to be a hot commodity these days, as more countries come online to initiate programs for medical patients. It...