CANNABIS CULTURE – The Canadian cannabis community has launched a formal “Parliamentary e-petition” which outlines an eight-point path for legalization.
A strong majority of Canadians agree with the Liberal government’s plan to legalize marijuana, and half of them feel users should be able to grow their own pot at home, a new Globe and Mail/Nanos Research poll has found.
CANNABIS CULTURE – Bill Blair, the Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief put in charge of legalizing marijuana in Canada, said granting pardons to people convicted of pot possession “is not being contemplated at this time.”
A little over a year after becoming one of Canada’s first licensed producers and sellers of medical marijuana, Aphria Inc. is doubling its size, going on a hiring spree and expanding from dried bud sales into cannabis oils.
Canada’s largest publicly traded producer of medical marijuana is making the case for the quality of weed made by large-scale manufacturers compared to homegrown bud.