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Under the Excise Tax Act, illicit cannabis producers could face huge fines or five-year prison terms—on top of the potential 14-year prison sentences they face under the Cannabis Act.

The Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty is making sure the government can’t continue to deal in erratic hypocrisy, but must actually address the systemic and oppressive failings of prohibition.

“If the government’s mandate is to stamp out the black market, they need to allow for vaporization and concentrates as soon as possible,” says dosist CEO Josh Campbell, who testified before the Senate last week.

When Health Minister Lucie Charlebois speaks of a majority who oppose home growing, it very well may be a deck stacked with companies who stand to make a profit from keeping Quebeckers from growing their own.

Aurora Cannabis’ announcement that it will acquire MedReleaf for C$3.2 billion may put the squeeze on smaller cannabis farmers.

As we near legalization in Canada, how society shifts in the next few years will ultimately help me determine how to talk to my daughter about cannabis.

Some Indigenous communities want an all-out ban on cannabis. Others want to be able to grow and sell cannabis freely. All feel they have a moral right to decide for themselves.

A Loblaws spokesperson said the cannabis would be sold behind the counter in small, existing tobacco shops ‘adjacent but separate’ to the grocery stores.

In the product call, the OCS asks whether each product fits in the categories of “Good,” “Better,” and “Best.”

From TV, movies, and music, I got the idea that cannabis was a harmless indulgence of adults looking to be youthful or young people looking to feel mature. It was all sensationalized, but a spoof of something was better than nothing.