A labourer deemed to have been unfairly sacked despite being caught smoking synthetic cannabis on the job has won $2000 in costs.

With 230 plus booths spread across two large exhibit halls in the belly of the Rio Casino last week the thousands of attendees to the fourth annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo had a lot to take in. Traditional cannabis-associated products such as vaporizers and glass art made way for the wide array of businesses such as extract machines and plug-and-play grow systems in a realm keynote speaker Ralph Nader called a new “subeconomy.”

SMITHS FALLS, ON , Nov. 20, 2015 /CNW/ - Tweed Inc. ("Tweed"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or "the Company") (CGC.V) has successfully renewed its license to produce and sell marijuana under Health Canada's Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR).

The renewed license, which is valid for 14 months until January 19, 2017 , allows Tweed to produce and sell up to 3,500 kg of dried marijuana. In addition, Health Canada has renewed Tweed's supplemental license to produce fresh marijuana and/or cannabis oil, over the same period.

TravelTHC is an accommodation service that offers the intoxicating blend of helping tourists to get high, legally, while on holiday in a stranger’s home

Like a breath of fresh air, the Liberal party swept to power in Canada recently with a "sunny days" attitude. Under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, Generation X has taken power, promising open communication and a team approach with an agenda for change. 

One of the more potentially controversial policies promised by the Liberals is the legalization of marijuana. Whether we agree with it on not, Canada is likely to see marijuana openly available for sale within the next four years. 

Pot is about to get hot.

Carlos and I are bombing around San Francisco in his 1999 Maxima, delivering marijuana to people who have ordered it from Eaze, a company that many have called the "Uber of cannabis." I had forgotten how fast 25-year-old guys like to drive.

But this is good, because Eaze boldly promises customers, all of whom must have medical marijuana cards, that they will receive their weed in 15 minutes or less.

Our first delivery of the afternoon, about $200 worth of sweet-looking bud, goes to a woman who lives in the Mission. She comes out to the sidewalk to meet us. She looks as if she's in her early 30s, is in the retail wine business, and does not want to give her name.

After spending several days in Negril with Jamaican government officials, members of the CLA (Cannabis Licensing Authority), JAMPRO (Jamaican Trade and Investment), and other interested parties, it became apparent that despite enormous progress towards developing a set of standards and regulations there remain four major challenges ahead.

Responsibility for developing and implementing policies for a sustainable, best-practice cannabis industry rests with the Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce. Minister Hylton made it very clear, that when done right “brand Jamaica” will be a global trademark. He said Jamaica is “at the forefront of a new global industry and the world is watching”.

PROFIT’s first annual “State of the Entrepreneur Nation” survey revealed some key HR challenges for Canadian business owners around how you increase employee engagement in order to boost productivity. To maximize the return on your human-capital investment, you need to maximize employee productivity. The formula for doing so seems simple enough:

Employee Productivity = (Right People + Right Talents) x (Employee Engagement)

Analysis by Boulder firm shows recreational sales up 81 percent

Preliminary data released from Boulder data analysis firm BDS Analytics has confirmed what tax revenues have already shown: Coloradans love legal pot. 

All told, dispensary sales in the state were $290 million for the quarter, a 53 percent increase over last year's $190 million quarterly sales.

Year to date, dispensary sales are about $740 million.

"Marijuana is going to be a $1 billion business in Colorado this year, or very damn close," said Roy Bingham, founder and CEO of BDS. "It's the fastest growing industry in America, I would say."

A full consumer report, the first of its kind, is due out near the end of the year.

On a warm September evening, about 70 women gather at The Peg House, a famed roadside burger joint on Northern California’s Highway 101. They arrive in a stream of 4x4 trucks and carpools of Subarus; some have driven hours from remote hillside homesteads. At the state park across the road, there’s plenty of room to pitch tents under the redwoods.