Hemp useful for food, cosmetics and textiles.

You could be forgiven for thinking a field full of tall, leafy crops in Baileys Brook is an illicit operation – but it’s perfectly legal, and not for smoking.

Bradley Jardine and Doug MacEachern are the owners of Northumberland Hemp, with 150 acres of industrial hemp growing in the province – mainly in Pictou County – that they process into hemp seed oil, flour and protein powder.

“As you can tell, it looks exactly the same as marijuana and that’s because it’s the same plant. It just has no THC, or very low levels,” Jardine said in an interview beside a 40-acre field where the plant is growing.

A new medical marijuana clinic will open its doors in Halifax later this summer, with its director hoping to offer an alternative to opioids and other pharmaceuticals.

"We want to be able to provide a really sound and thorough method so people will understand that there are very significant alternatives that they need to look at," says Kenny Lord, director of National Access Cannabis' Atlantic region.

A Nova Scotia medical marijuana dispensary has opened up shop in New Brunswick’s. Its owner says he’s already taken on 50 clients.Malachy McMeekin operates four medical marijuana dispensaries in Nova Scotia. He opened Tasty Budd’s in Riverview on June 24.“It just shows the clear demand for it,” McMeekin said.

McMeekin says he expanded to New Brunswick because New Brunswick patients were traveling to his province to get their prescriptions filled.

12-year-old in provincial care denied permission to try medical marijuana to treat severe epilepsy.

Parents of a girl with severe epilepsy want to try treating their daughter with medicinal cannabis, but because she's living in a provincial care home, Nova Scotia's Department of Community Services won't allow it.

Morgan Oulton was born with multiple brain abnormalities and suffers from various forms of epilepsy. The 12-year-old has also been diagnosed with a variety of behaviour disorders, cognitive impairment, as well as autism.

Since she was three-years-old, Morgan has been on a series of medications to control her conditions. The drugs have had various rates of success, but also side effects. 

Dave Murphy wants to pressure the federal government to legalize and regulate home-grown medical marijuana.

A Nova Scotia man living with brain cancer is appealing to the prime minister in an effort to get a licence to grow medical marijuana.​

Dave Murphy, 27, says he wrote to Justin Trudeau and is speaking out now because he wants to put pressure on the federal government to move forward with legislation to legalize and regulate home-grown medical marijuana

Have you heard about Rick Simpson from Canadian Nova Scotia and how hard he tried to legalize cannabis oil as it helped him and many others to cure cancer? Rick thought that the world was ready to hear his story about the health benefits of cannabis oil.

After he had several attempts to get cannabis oil allowed with the help of many testimonies from people who were also cured, he realized that the cancer industry doesn’t want to find the cure for cancer.

He used to make cannabis oil and give it free to those who needed it after he was cured from skin cancer. Many people from his town were also cured from various disorders and lung cancer as well.

Some Nova Scotia doctors are concerned young people are receiving prescriptions to smoke medical marijuana, despite the effects marijuana has on the developing brain.

Currently, there are no laws in Canada regarding the age at which people can receive prescriptions for marijuana and different organizations have different recommendations.

The College of Family Physicians of Canada says cannabis is not appropriate for anyone under the age of 25, while the Canadian Paediatric Society and Health Canada both recommend cannabis not be consumed by anyone under the age of 18.

Risks of youth cannabis use

The brain isn't fully developed until 25 and frequent cannabis use can have serious consequences for youth.

Frequent cannabis use can have serious consequences for youth

Some Nova Scotia doctors are concerned young people are receiving prescriptions to smoke medical marijuana, despite the effects marijuana has on the developing brain.

Currently, there are no laws in Canada regarding the age at which people can receive prescriptions for marijuana and different organizations have different recommendations.

Two people from Nova Scotia have been charged after RCMP seized a large amount of drugs during a traffic stop Thursday on the Trans-Canada Highway in Moncton.Police found what they believe to be 100 pounds of marijuana and 17 pounds of hashish in a vehicle that was travelling eastbound near the exit for Highway 15.Dale Fetinko, 51, and Stephanie Fetinko, 49, from Lawrencetown face charges for drug possession and trafficking.The two suspects have been remanded into custody and will appear in court on Feb. 15 for a bail hearing.RCMP say the investigation is ongoing.

A man who runs a medical marijuana shop raided by police last week was granted bail in Halifax provincial court Monday.

Christopher Enns, 31, of East Chezzetcook was arrested Thursday after police executed a search warrant at Farm Assists Cannabis Resource Centre on Gottingen Street in Halifax.

Enns and Frank Gerard Nelder, 35, of Halifax are charged with trafficking marijuana and possession of both marijuana and hashish for the purpose of trafficking.

Nelder was released from custody Friday on an undertaking, but Enns was held for a bail hearing.

Enns’s hearing got underway Friday and concluded Monday with lawyers working out release conditions.