The International Pharmaceutical Academy (IPA) is hosting a summit in Toronto on June 10-11. Representatives from some licensed producers, laboratories, physicians, consultants and more will be speaking at this event. Some of the topics include:

Health Canada has recently updated its licenced producers web page with additional licensee information and a newly-designed map. Interestingly the map very clearly and graphically highlights the much higher number of licensed cannabis producers in Ontario. In fact, Ontario has more licensed producers than all other provinces combined. Below is an up-to-date listing of all the licencees, which shows the breakdown, as well as information on the licence type (cultivator, seller, or both) and when they were approved.

Number of licensed producers by province or territory

U.S.-based Compass Diversified Holdings buys Manitoba's Fresh Hemp Foods Ltd.

A Manitoba company that specializes in hemp products has been bought by a U.S. firm for $132.5 million.

On Monday, Compass Diversified Holdings announced its plan to buy Fresh Hemp Foods Ltd., otherwise known as "Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods."

Compass Diversified Holdings buys small or middle-market businesses in niche markets, according to the company's website.

Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods made about $38 million in revenue last year, a 24 per cent increase from the previous year.

The deal will close in the next 45 days, according to Compass Diversified Holdings.

Likeness, name and song titles of the iconic rock guitarist, who died in 1970, set to be used array of new marijuana & edible hemp-based products.

It appears that Bob Marley and Willie Nelson may have some company in the fast-expanding field of active and deceased music icons with their own line of marijuana-related products.

Patients and medical practitioners need to understand what exactly is in their product. As our industry moves forward, a critical change will be the role of testing. In order to give Lift readers a better understanding of the Quality Assurance andcannabis testing practices that are required under Canada’s MMPR legislation, we’ve enlisted the help of Emily Kirkham, VP of Laboratory Operations at Signoto.

As a franchise lawyer in Vancouver, you wouldn’t believe the number of calls I get from people who want to establish a chain of franchised retail marijuana outlets.

Medical marijuana producer National Green Biomed Ltd. has committed $1 million to the University of British Columbia to allow researchers to study the therapeutic effects of cannabis. The company has made an application and is awaiting approval from Health Canada to produce and sell medical marijuana.

The contribution will support research by assistant professor of medicine M-J Milloy, who is studying marijuana’s potential to treat HIV, and alleviate pain and nausea caused by acute illness and medications used to combat HIV and AIDS.

VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia company has pledged to donate $1 million to a university researcher studying medical marijuana's potential for treating HIV-AIDS.

National Green Biomed Ltd., partly owned by former MP Herb Dhaliwal, is awaiting Health Canada's approval of an application to produce and sell cannabis.

University of B.C. assistant professor of medicine M.J. Milloy says the company has so far donated $200,000 toward his work, with a promise to contribute the rest of the money within five years.

Milloy was the lead investigator of an ongoing observational study that looked at the cases of 88 people infected with HIV and living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Often MMPR applicants don’t know what to expect from Health Canada when reporting on a monthly basis. We’ve had the pleasure of working with several licensed producers and developing an extensive record keeping and seed to sale traceability system, to make your monthly reporting a breeze. In fact, Grow One allows for “one click” Health Canada reporting, doing all the investigative work for you and your team.

In this article, we outline a monthly Health Canada report at a high level, and what information you will be expected to collect.

Cannabis Produced & Transferred
Total amount of marijuana produced and ready to be sold, and the amount of marijuana transferred from licensed producers.

If Gulwant Bajwa had known medical marijuana was an option when he developed a painful cancer two decades ago, he would have tried it.

He would have tried anything.

Now, the 53-year-old is hoping to help other suffering Canadians navigate the murky world of medical marijuana with National Access Cannabis, an information centre where doctors can prescribe weed.

The clinic will open an office in Hintonburg on June 23.

It’s not a dispensary; there’s “not a speck” of pot on site, according to the new CEO, who left his job in Health Canada’s medical marijuana program to join the company two months ago.

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