Forget about Health Minister Rona Ambrose. Pay no attention to National Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay or anyone else in the bloated 38-member federal cabinet who happens to be the government's mouthpiece of the day on marijuana.
Tweed Marijuana is offering to buy Bedrocan Cannabis Corp. in a friendly deal that would combine the two companies into what they say would be Canada’s largest licensed pot producer.
As the city of Vancouver voted in favour of regulating medical marijuana dispensaries today (June 24), a protest over marijuana reform will go ahead as planned next week, despite best efforts by the city to shut it down.
Locally based Prairie Plant Systems, a division of CanniMed, is funding Health Canada’s first approved medical marijuana clinical trial. The Saskatoon business will also provide all cannabis for the research.