Articles in Canada category

To the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau: It feels like just yesterday you were campaigning with the promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” —and now, here we are! However…

Questions abound, but conclusive answers about how best to determine real-time cannabis impairment remain elusive.

Cannabis-related charges across Canada continue to drop since peaking in 2011. But not in Quebec, police data show.

As Calgary’s Chris Mayerson explains, a social entrepreneur is “a person who establishes an enterprise with the aim of solving social problems and effecting social change.” It’s a position Mayerson’s ready to popularize in the cannabis industry.

On July 14, two Canadian employees with the Cirque de Soleil-styled equestrian extravaganza Cavalia were arrested and imprisoned in Beijing, after allegedly being found to have consumed marijuana.

Toronto cannabis lawyer Jack Lloyd looks more like a roadie for the Grateful Dead than a trial lawyer—a fact that’s helped him earn the trust of his clients, as he follows his self-professed goal of helping to “legalize cannabis through the judicial branch of the government in Canada.”

Phil Fontaine’s aims range from establishing medical-marijuana grow-ops on Indigenous land to prepping Indigenous citizens for a variety of cannabis-industry jobs.

Ontario Public Service Employees Union is among a growing number of employers providing coverage of medical cannabis.

As Canada works towards next year’s launch of an adult-use cannabis market, there are still some key regulatory issues to hammer out.

Canada and the United States share many similarities, but there are subtle differences in each country’s medical marijuana programs.