Few sectors in Ontario have invested as much or created as many jobs as the legal cannabis industry. Today, 45 per cent of Canada’s licensed cannabis producers are located in Ontario. At the end of 2018, the sector directly employed approximately 5,700 across the province and cannabis companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the Ontario economy.

Pot companies eye real estate asset sales to help survive financing drought  

Cannabis retailers will soon be able to sell products online or over the phone for in-store pick-up as the Ontario government adopts a “click-and-connect” sales model to expand access to legal marijuana.

Finance Minister Rod Phillips announced the proposed changes in the government's fall economic statement Wednesday, saying they will decrease waits for cannabis and help combat the black market.

The shift comes as the Progressive Conservative government pledges to lift a cap it imposed on the number of cannabis stores in Ontario.

“All of the provincial jurisdictions are learning and trying to make sure that we take the best approach,” Phillips said. “Our priorities are getting rid of black market cannabis and safety in our communities.”

Whether you know it or not, chances are KGK Science has probably touched some aspect of your life. If you regularly take vitamins or health supplements, you've probably benefited from the company's work on your last trip to the local drug store. 

"If it says it's better absorbed, we've likely done that study or if you get a cholesterol-lowering product or a probiotic, we've likely done a lot of those studies," said company CEO Najla Guthrie. 

A scientist herself, Guthrie, first cut her teeth at Western University studying the anti-cancer effects of compounds found in foods, such as flavinoids or tocotrienols.

Regulators have spent the past 70 years trying to figure out how to regulate tobacco. Now a fast-changing recreational drug use landscape in Canada that includes three legal products — tobacco, vaping and cannabis — means regulators will have to figure out the interplay of the three, says an expert in public health policy.

Between 35,000 and 45,000 deaths in year in Canada are attributed to smoking, about 30 per cent of all cancer deaths. However, cannabis and vaping are challenging the traditional categories of “good” and “bad” drugs, said David Hammond, who was in Ottawa on Monday to speak at the biennial Canadian Cancer Research Conference.

The world’s biggest pot company is planning to set up shop on Toronto’s Mink Mile.

A spokesperson from Canopy Growth Corp. confirmed to BNN Bloomberg that the pot giant is in advanced negotiations with a cannabis retail licence applicant to open a Tokyo Smoke store at One Bloor Street East, located at one of the busiest intersections in the country.

“We have ambitious retail plans across the country that we're actively pursuing,” the Canopy spokesperson told BNN Bloomberg in an email.

An updated list from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the provincial regulator in charge of issuing cannabis retail licences, shows that 11180673 Canada Inc. changed its proposed store location to One Bloor Street East late Thursday.

Province Brands of Canada, developers of the world’s first and only beers brewed from the cannabis plant, will join with Western University (WU) to study and develop innovative yeasts.

Sherry Lee Ann Kohoko opened her cosy Rastafarian-themed dispensary Madashk on April 20, the international day to celebrate marijuana.

It’s one of a handful of unlicensed cannabis stores on Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation territory in the Ottawa Valley.

Kohoko says customers drive from Ottawa and across the Valley to buy dried weed, homemade cannabis cookies, gummy candies, tinctures, oils, lotions and other products.

Now she hopes to add a second shop on her property — this one licensed by the provincial government.

That’s a possibility since Kohoko is one of 26 applicants given the right by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario to apply for cannabis store licences on First Nation territories.

Year two of Canada's experiment with legal cannabis has begun, at least in Ontario and Quebec, with layoffs.

Just last week two big producers, Ontario's CannTrust and Quebec's HEXO, combined to leave more than 300 hundred people out of work.