The Roll-Up features co-hosts Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Alyssa Yeoman in a Friday morning roundtable about the week’s top cannabis news. Leafly Podcast The Roll-Up #56: Legalization Day in Canada This week: The entire nation of Canada legalized cannabis on Wednesday, Oct. 17. No big deal. Bruce and the Leafly Canada staff were there to […]
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Cannabis is officially legal in Canada and while rules, regulations, and retail options vary by province, one policy that applies to all Canadians is that domestic travel with legal cannabis is permitted. In the weeks before the legalization came into effect, Transportation Minister Marc Garneau announced that travelers flying within the country would be able […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohioans sometime in the next two months will be able to buy and use marijuana products to treat nearly two dozen medical conditions after obtaining a recommendation from a physician. Here are a few things prospective patients should consider as the state’s medical cannabis program gets rolling. RELATED STORY Map: Where to […]
The legalization of cannabis in Canada is the culmination of a long, complex process. But for many cannabis advocates, the new legislation simply represents a starting point. With the federal government looking into regulating recreational edibles and extracts, some fine tuning of the Cannabis Act is expected. What else does the future hold for cannabis […]
This week saw the launch of legal cannabis sales across Canada, the largest country so far to legalize cannabis nationally. It’s big news for the Great White North, but it’s left a lot of people here in the United States wondering when our turn might come. Here’s one way to help bring about change. Between […]
On Legalization Day at 10:00 am, three outlets of the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) opened their doors in Montreal, out of twelve across the province—one located in the suburb of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, across from big-box park Marché Centrale; one located downtown on Ste-Catherine and Mansfield; and one in the former Plaza Saint-Hubert. I visited […]
(Leafly) Wholesale cannabis prices could hit as low as $30 an ounce in some parts of the country by Christmas as another record crop of outdoor cannabis floods markets and sinks prices. For example, the legal recreational market in Oregon continues to drown in a multi-year surplus. Oregon produced 10 times the cannabis it needs […]
Cannabis is now legal across the country but in the province known for its beautiful bud and long history of cannabis activism, the landscape is even more hazy now than it has been in recent years. As of today, the government of British Columbia has not licensed private recreational cannabis retailers to operate even though […]
Now that the Canadian Cannabis Act has come into effect, adult-use recreational cannabis is legal across the country. Along with the commercial retail options which vary by province comes the option to grow your own! The Cannabis Act explicitly permits the cultivation of up to four cannabis plants per household–offer void in Quebec, Manitoba, and Nunavut, […]
TORONTO (AP) — Canada is now the largest country with a legal national cannabis marketplace as sales began early Wednesday in Newfoundland. RELATED STORY Cannabis Legalization Day in Canada: Leafly’s Live Coverage And there was more good news for pot aficionados: Hours before a handful of retail outlets opened in the country’s easternmost province a […]
