The World’s Largest Cannabis Dispensary Just Opened In Vegas

The world’s largest cannabis dispensary opened in Las Vegas. But it’s no ordinary dispensary — it’s also an entertainment complex where customers can do things like interactive laser graffiti. Opened Nov. 1, Planet 13 is the largest cannabis dispensary in the world according to the company, at 115,000 square feet. The 24-hour dispensary, which accounts for […]

High Demand and Short Supply in Canada’s Legal Cannabis Trade

This is Dan Bilefsky in Montreal, where the pungent smell of cannabis wafting from the long lines of people at government marijuana stores may soon compete with the more familiar street smells of poutine. I am filling in this week for Ian Austen on the Canada Letter. Pure SunFarms, a marijuana cultivation facility in Vancouver.CreditAlana […]

What Stands Between You And Pot Growing

You can grow your own legal marijuana plants — so long as you can grow them from seeds that you bought legally. And just at the moment, there aren’t any, so you can’t. Provincial cannabis monopolies would like to sell seeds, but licensed producers aren’t selling seeds to them. Eventually, once seeds and young plants become legally available, it […]

Cannabis Spa Budding Near Carleton Place

Owner hopes ‘canna-complex’ will provide ‘uniquely Canadian experience’ An Ottawa-area man has high hopes to transform a patch of farmland near Carleton Place into a cannabis spa and outdoor grow operation by 2020. Mark Spear, CEO of Burnstown Farms Cannabis Company, hopes that by 2020 visitors will be able to come for the day or stay […]

10 Things You Will Learn Working In A Cannabis Dispensary

It’s just cannabis, right? How important can something affectionately referred to as “wacky-tabbacky” be? In my case, very. In 2015, I nearly died from a vitamin B12 deficiency (because that’s a thing), which catapulted an evil disease called fibromyalgia into the center of my world ― and then totally imploded it. I was completely debilitated […]

Where to Buy Legal Weed in Canada Guide

Where to Buy Legal Weed in Canada Guide On October 17th, 2018, Canadians received a reprieve they have been longing for decades. Finally, the Cannabis Act was in force. Thanks to the latest law, a new and strict framework for controlling the growing, distribution, possession and sale of cannabis came into effect. As the first […]

Flex Your Green Thumb: Tips On Growing Cannabis At Home

The Grow Room in Regina will be offering workshops to help home-growers Budding green thumbs now have the opportunity to legally grow their own cannabis at home. Canadians can grow up to four cannabis plants for personal use per residence under the new laws. The plants must come from licensed seeds or seedlings. Chad Bonin has […]

Where tax dollars from cannabis are going in Manitoba

Global News Reporter Austin Siragusa looks at how pot sales are doing one week later and where exactly taxes generated from cannabis sales are going. After just over a week, cannabis sales have skyrocketed across Canada and in Winnipeg. But with the high number of sales, comes more money into government pockets. READ MORE: Pot sells […]

Lowly Moss-Like Plant Seems to Copy Cannabis

Meet the new weed on the block, perhaps one better suited to medical rather than recreational use. Several hundred million years ago mosses and their kin went one way, evolutionarily speaking, and the lineage of trees and flowering plants went the other. Somehow, in the vast expanse of geologic time that followed, a few members […]

Your Ultimate Province-By-Province Guide For Buying Cannabis In Canada

Here are the general rules, as they stand, for cannabis purchase, possession and consumption in each province and territory of Canada. When legalization begins Wednesday, Oct. 17, the only legal purchasable marijuana will be fresh or dried bud, oil, plants and seeds. The federal government is promising to spend the next year developing regulations around […]