Here's Your Cannabis News for
November 09, 2018

Two years ago, after newly elected President Trump said he was nominating then U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) as Attorney General, a palpable chill was felt throughout the cannabis industry.

Tracey Mason knows all about breaking into the boys’ club. For close to three decades, the veteran wine and spirits executive worked inside some of the largest adult beverage companies in the world where she was one of a handful of women in a leadership role.

File under whoa, dude. The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) has become the first pot vendor to get the breach disclosure munchies since Canada legalized the sale of weed. Bad puns to one side, this is serious stuff.

Avail Cannabis Clinic is advancing its expansion plans with the move to sign a letter of intent (LOI) with Express Aid Pharmacy in Barrie, Ont., open a franchise in Toronto and rebrand its Tweed Main Street location in Barrie by Dec. 1.

Cannabis seizures have more than doubled in a year amid claims that the drug is flooding into UK because it has effectively been decriminalised, official figures revealed today.

The new B.C. Cannabis Control and Licensing Act bans smoking or vaping in places where tobacco is prohibited, in places frequently used by children such as parks and on school properties and in vehicles. The government has set a limit for possession in a public place at 30 grams.

Shares of cannabis companies traded broadly, and in many cases sharply higher Wednesday, as U.S. midterm elections are likely to usher in a green wave, with Michigan voting to legalize recreational pot and other states supporting medical marijuana likely just the beginning.

The province plans to help Nova Scotia’s municipalities with the cost linked to legal cannabis, once it lands federal funding for weed control, a conference in Halifax was told Thursday.