March on this month alongside fellow cannabis enthusiast! We’ve rounded up educational workshops, cooking classes, yoga classes, and more cannabis-centric events happening across Canada this month. Are you hosting a cannabis event in Canada? Email canadaevents@leafly.comto share your event with the Leafly community. British Columbia When: Saturday, Mar. 2, 2019, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.Where: Flower of Life Integrative […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden has begun tip-toeing towards throwing his hat in the ring as a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary. Few politicians have done more harm in America’s war on drugs than the former senator from Delaware. Political watchers are expecting him to formally announce any day now. But Biden, who […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Creating and selling edible medical cannabis products, allowing inmates to receive medical cannabis treatment, and prohibiting employers from asking about marijuana use could become law in Maryland under bills being pushed in this year’s General Assembly. The Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee is expected to hear 18 bills regarding medical cannabis and […]
Sexual violence—which includes rape and any other unwanted sexual experience—is a significant problem in the United States. About one in three American women, and one in six American men, have experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives. Intimate partner violence is a scourge in the US as well. In 2015, the Center for […]
This week in cannabis, CFAMM’s #DontTaxMedicine campaign ramps up, Toronto tries to ban child-friendly edibles and vapes, Ontario’s retail training program fumbles, right out of the gate, and more. We’ve rounded up this week’s top stories from across Canada. D-Day for Battle Against MED Taxes Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana (CFAMM) ramped up […]
In the fall of 2016, I left the gloomy Northwest for the warmer climate of the Virgin Islands. Originally intending to work on a boat and sail around the Caribbean, I instead got involved in a work-exchange program and set up a self-sustaining farm. I met many others in the farming community of St. Thomas. […]
With the legalization of recreational cannabis, edibles have grown in popularity as an alternative to smoking or vaporizing. Consultations on the regulation of edibles, extracts, and topicals recently closed, bringing Canada one step closer to legalizing the sale of edibles. While it will soon be easier to procure edibles from a safe and legal source, […]
New Jersey residents may be forgiven if they failed to cheer last week’s news of a “grand agreement” among legislators on a bill to legalize the adult use of cannabis. They’ve heard it all before. It’s been widely reported on these pages and elsewhere that Gov. Phil Murphy made a campaign promise to legalize cannabis […]
The cannabis community is tight-knit. It’s the result of so many businesses figuring it out as they go along with a series of occupational challenges that bind us together. And despite the hardships we may face, at the end of the day it’s still a thing of wonder that we get to work with such […]
There was much speculation throughout 2018 about Canada’s soon-to-be-legal cannabis market. But only recently has data become available that shows what cannabis consumers really want and actually buy. For example, Statistics Canada recently released its National Cannabis Survey. The most-discussed finding is that cannabis consumption did not jump after legalization in October. The proportion of […]
