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As adult recreational legalization approaches in Canada, medically focused LPs like Organigram are working to diversify their offerings and appeal to new consumers.

Vancouver authorities’ laissez-faire attitude toward the city’s bustling grey-market cannabis scene has long been the stuff of legend. Does ‘Project Apprentice’ signal the end of an era?

The existing draft of Ontario’s Cannabis Plan sees cannabis consumption forbidden in all public places—essentially restricting legal use to private residences—but the new proposals could open things up considerably.

When the Cannabis Act passes, the right to smoke cannabis, whether recreationally or medicinally, will be protected in a tenant’s right to reasonable enjoyment. But that doesn’t mean that landlords can’t impose restrictions.

From public puff parties to the world’s best poutine, Montreal offers a wealth of pleasures for the cannabis-enhanced.

From ‘boom’ to ‘errl,’ Health Canada’s ‘cannabis slang terms’ have Canadian cannabis fans scratching their heads.

The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority will issue up to 60 cannabis retail permits to private retail outlets in as many as 40 municipalities and First Nation communities across the province.

Until 2017, the Canadian government trusted licensed producers of cannabis to avoid banned pesticides of their volition. Following high-profile contaminations and class-action lawsuits, a strict new era of checks and balances has begun.

“Nothing I’ve ever done has been legal and nothing I’ve ever done has been illegal,” says the founder of Toronto’s longest-running cannabis lounge. “Where there’s a will there’s a way.”

Toronto’s ex-police chief is now in the cannabis biz. Those he arrested are excluded. There’s a right & a wrong way to do that pivot, says David Bienenstock.