It wasn’t long ago that cannabis and blockchain were being married together like wine and cheese, and not a day went by without a press release of some sort of initiative between the two burgeoning industries. Slick websites announced blockchain’s link to cannabis at a hurried pace. And then, the Bitcoin crash happened—and it seemed […]
Cannabis retail chain Canna Cabana, a subsidiary of publicly traded company High Tide, hooked up with Ontario lottery winner Dana Michele Kendal to launch Canna Cabana Toronto at Yonge and College. The brand has already established stores in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Toronto location is the third Ontario outlet for the chain which also […]
One Canadian company is hoping to sell pre-rolled cannabis cigarettes assembled with the all-too-familiar beige filters present on many tobacco cigarettes in Canada. And looking at the pictures from the company’s press release last week, you would actually be forgiven if at first glance you thought it was a cigarette. You may not even know […]
The second wave of legalization will see three new classes of cannabis products become available to Canadians before the year is out. In a teleconference with media outlets today, Health Canada unveiled their final plans to regulate cannabis edibles, extracts, and topicals. Coming into effect on October 17, 2019, the regulations provide a comprehensive set […]
Cannabis might be legal across the country but laws do vary from province to province. While many of the regulations are as expected—touching on the who, how much, and where legal cannabis can be purchased, possessed, and consumed—there are still some, shall we say, odd cannabis-related laws on the books. That’s why Leafly scoured Canadian […]
The Toronto Raptors are in the NBA Finals for the first time. With the Raps leading the series 3-1 going into Monday night’s game, it means the city will play host to at least one of the Finals games. Whether you’re in town rooting for the home team or visiting from out of province, we’ve […]
The Province of Alberta has lifted its moratorium on new cannabis stores due to a national cannabis shortage and has begun processing existing retail store applications in their queue. The moratorium was first announced in November, and the province speculated it could take up to 18 months for the national cannabis shortage to lessen in […]
The line outside can be deceptive: It’s not packed like sardines inside Nova Cannabis thanks to the 2,900 square foot space that provides lots of area to explore cannabis from a variety of brands. It’s the second of two legal dispensaries to open on Queen Street West as part of the AGCO’s lottery process to […]
It’s not just you: time certainly does fly, and yes, a lot has happened in the six months since cannabis was legalized in Canada on Oct. 17, 2018. From product shortages and store openings (and closings), to refined regulations and programs for recycling packaging, we’ve compiled six of the biggest stories in Canadian cannabis, so […]
On Sunday morning, with 24 hours to go before the first legal recreational cannabis stores could first open up their doors in Ontario, cannabis lawyer Caryma Sa’d walked past the only Toronto-based cannabis store that the Alcohol Gaming Commission of Ontario had given the go-ahead to open starting the next morning at 9 a.m. With […]
