Canadian pharmacy giant Shoppers Drug Mart has expanded its online medical cannabis platform to Canada's East Coast.

As of today, residents of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island can go online on the company's website to make their purchase, which will then be mailed to them.

Residents who don't currently have the proper medical documentation authorizing the use of medical cannabis can get it by setting up a consultation online.

"There's access to telemedicine where a person can have an individual consultation with a physician who can determine whether cannabis is right for them," said Mike Boivin, a pharmacist consultant from Ontario who is a member of the Shoppers Drug Mart Advisory Board on Medical Cannabis.

Oh, come all ye faithful. Canada, from east to west, has plenty of destinations ready to welcome travelling tokers over the holidays. Consider these favourites:

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Among the many claims that surround CBD, its ability to treat hangovers is one of the most inviting. Here’s what experts say.

Hangovers are awful and really hard to treat. While there are all sorts of pills and drinks that claim to fix your body, not to mention an endless stream of home remedies, most of the time, what works best is sleep, water and time.

Cannabis stocks fell for a third straight day Monday, weighed down by the industry’s continued weak fundamentals, with companies still posting losses as they struggle to generate revenue.

The market is digesting the final third-quarter numbers from Canadian and U.S. players, and sentiment is being hurt by weaker-than-expected results, according to Greg McLeish, analyst at Mackie Research Capital Corp.

“What we’ve seen in Canada in particular is the disastrous retail rollout that is stopping licensed producers putting product into the retail channel,” he said. “That’s hurting net results and creating net oversupply in the marketplace that’s a concern to many investors.”

For anyone who watches the marijuana stocks as much as we do, they know that the past few months have been less than ideal. This is due to a variety of factors in the market including general uncertainty about the future, among other aspects. With so much information going around the market, it can be difficult to pick which pot stocks may be future proof. Of course, we must consider that there are some pot stocks that have more potential than others. Additionally, the future of the industry is still very much an uncertainty.

Scientists determined inhaled marijuana reduced the severity of self-reported pain 47.3% for headaches and 49.6% for migraines.

Next time you feel the effects of a headache or migraine coming on, you might skip the Tylenol and smoke some cannabis. That’s because inhaling marijuana nearly cuts headache and migraine pain in half, according to a recent study.

Hundreds of new vaping devices are set to hit the Canadian market as early as next month, a sign that emerging health concerns, taxes, and even a provincial ban isn't enough to deter what some Canadian cannabis producers are hoping will be a big money maker. 

Health Canada told BNN Bloomberg that it has received close to 50 applications from licensed cannabis processors who have requested regulatory authority to sell the new classes of pot products. According to the regulator, those applications cover a total of 747 different cartridge-based vaping systems that industry players are hoping to sell when next-generation cannabis product sales begin on Dec. 16.

n Monday pot-producer Aleafia Health, Inc. (TSX: ALEF) (OTC: ALEAF) announced it found a buyer for 28 per cent of the company’s inaugural outdoor harvest.

The company will sell 2,840 kilograms of dried flower from its Port Perry, Ontario growing site to an unnamed Canadian licensed producer for $2.50 per gram, earning Aleafia a tidy $7.1 million.

It’s a profitable deal for Aleafia, considering the Port Perry grow site produces the cheapest cannabis in Canada at $0.10 per gram — in this case, representing a profit margin of 96 per cent.

The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) engaged in some serious backpedaling regarding a planned Black Friday promotion after talks with Health Canada.

Last week, in a now-deleted tweet, the OCS bid Ontarians to “shop our collection of 7 grams starting at CA$7.50/g.”

The tweet was soon removed and promptly replaced with an online flyer that simply indicated that Black Friday was set to occur, with no language that could be deemed “promotional” and no details regarding product pricing or special deals in honour of the discount shopping day.

Shoppers waiting to order cannabis Christmas gifts are getting a rude awakening as one of the biggest holidays nears.

Most legal shops won’t be able to order the new wave of marijuana products before Dec. 16, which means products likely won’t hit store shelves until 2020.

Brad Churchill, owner of Choklat, a candy-making company, told the Calgary Herald provinces will continue to suffer from Health Canada’s cautious approach.

“It’s disappointing in the standpoint of not having it in the stores for the holiday season,” he said.