Grow Your Own Plants: Tips From a Cannabis Grower
In Ontario, you can grow four plants at home. Now that you can grow your own cannabis plants at home, a different kind of business has sprouted — including professionals who teach you how to grow your...
View ArticleAurora Cannabis Planning Major Investment in Saskatoon Grow Facility
The announcement comes just over a year after the Edmonton-based company took over CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. Just over one year after acquiring Canada’s first licensed medical marijuana producer,...
View ArticleInside Mike Tyson’s 400-Acre Cannabis Resort and It Looks Insane
Mike Tyson has revealed his plans to launch a 407-acre cannabis resort. When you have as much wealth and time as Tyson likely has, anything is possible. The Tyson Ranch will compliment his cannabis...
View ArticleItaly’s ‘Cannabis Light’ Creates Buzz Even if the Pot Won’t
Recent ruling said 2016 law was meant mostly for hemp growers, not retail spinoffs. It's been called the Italian "green gold rush." Mild, barely there marijuana dubbed "cannabis light" has put Italy on...
View Article‘There’s No Opposition Now’: How a Quiet Canada Town Became a World Leader in...
In an abandoned chocolate factory in Ontario, Canopy Growth is nurturing global ambitions. But could it thrive in Britain? The musky aroma hits you from the car park at the headquarters of Canopy...
View ArticleAurora Cannabis Gets Licences for Two Outdoor Growing Facilities
Edmonton-based Aurora Cannabis has received a processing licence from Health Canada for its Aurora Air facility located near the Edmonton International Airport and two outdoor cultivation licences for...
View ArticleHealth Canada Revokes Licences of B.C. Cannabis Producer Agrima
Company under creditor protection as Health Canada finds 'unauthorized activities'. B.C. cannabis producer Agrima Botanicals Corp. has had its licences revoked by Health Canada, months after the...
View ArticleThailand’s Unlikely Embrace of Cannabis
Despite a history of tough drug laws, it’s set to be a major supplier as the substance goes global. The forecast for the legal cannabis market in Asia is rosy—it’s expected to swell to $8.5 billion by...
View ArticlePot Offers New Hope for Rural Towns Hurt by Decline of the Fishery
Shuttered fish plants preparing for new crop. With legal cannabis a growing industry in the country, and edibles about to become available in the fall, lots of prospective businesspeople are trying to...
View Article‘Growing Outside is a Dream’: Asparagus Makes Way for Cannabis in Canada’s...
Growing outdoors can cost as little as one-fifth that of greenhouse production and one exec says it makes for 'tastier' buds. Despite a cool, wet start to the growing season, the pot plants were...
View ArticleCannabis User Gets Police Backing to Grow Own Marijuana So She Can Live...
Carly Barton, who has suffered neuropathy and fibromyalgia since having a stroke at 24, has gained support from top cops and MPs. Five crime commissioners are backing a bid to let seriously ill people...
View ArticleCanadian Cannabis Producers Quadruple Hiring in a Year
So far, Canada's cannabis legal grow-ops haven't turned a profit as a group. It’s good to be in a booming new business ― and in the case of Canadian cannabis, maybe more so for employees than...
View ArticleQuebec’s Ban on Growing Cannabis at Home Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
Lawyer who led challenge says those wanting to grow should hold off for now. Quebecers are free to grow cannabis at home, at least for now. Quebec Superior Court Justice Manon Lavoie ruled Tuesday the...
View ArticleWant to Grow Cannabis? University of Guelph Offering Online Course
An Ontario university is offering an online course to teach people how to grow better marijuana. The University of Guelph says its cannabis production course begins next week and is already full with...
View ArticlePot Users Show Growing Interest in Growing Cannabis at Home
Bob Osborne says more people want to grow marijuana, though Cannabis NB says its seeds are poor sellers. When Bob Osborne set up a workshop on homegrown cannabis for Saturday, he knew there would be...
View ArticleCannabis Canada: Health Canada Suspends Second Pot Firm From Growing, Selling...
B.C.-based pot firm Evergreen Medicinal has licence suspended by Health Canada British Columbia-based cannabis producer Evergreen Medicinal Supply had its licence to grow and sell legal marijuana in...
View ArticleMan Grew Cannabis Plants to Help Ease Wife’s Agonising Pain From Serious...
David Pinder, 60, admitted producing cannabis but said it was used as a painkiller for his wife. A man grew cannabis plants to help his suffering wife with agonising pain from serious back and neck...
View ArticleQuebec is Appealing a Judge’s Ruling That Allows You to Grow Cannabis at Home
The Quebec government says it will appeal a decision invalidating parts of Quebec's cannabis law that prohibited home cultivation. On Sept. 3, Quebec Superior Court Justice Manon Lavoie ruled Quebec's...
View ArticleHow to Harvest a Cannabis Crop at Home
Carl Bondi, an outdoor grower, spoke with CTV News about his step-by-step process of how to harvest a cannabis crop. Here are his suggestions for at-home growers: Cannabis plants are ready to harvest...
View ArticleCanadian Company to Destroy $77 Million Worth of Weed
Canadian cannabis company CannTrust Holdings Inc has announced a plan to attempt to address Health Canada’s concerns about their business. Back on September 17th its licenses to produce and sell...
View ArticleOntario Gardeners Bring in Their 1st Harvest of Legal Backyard Cannabis
With frost around the corner, the time is right to cut, dry and cure homegrown buds. Along with planting bulbs and clearing out dying annuals, some Ontario gardeners now have a new fall tradition:...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg Partners With Israeli Cannabis Company, Will Promote Pot-Growing...
Snoop Dogg has partnered up with an Israel-based marijuana business called Seedo. The company promotes home-grown marijuana and enlisted the American musician as their new brand ambassador earlier this...
View Article‘I Was Sleeping With One Eye Open’ — Canadian Cannabis Growers Harvest Their...
This is the first year Tom has not felt the need to booby-trap his backyard. An inveterate pot grower, the North York man says new laws allowing Canadians to raise up to four of the plants per...
View ArticleAurora Shares Sink on Weak Results and Halting Construction of Cannabis Plants
Aurora Cannabis Inc. shares sank to a two-year low Friday after its revenues missed expectations and the pot producer announced it was halting construction at one production facility and pausing work...
View ArticleThailand Will Soon Allow Its Citizens To Grow Cannabis At Home To Sell To The...
Thailand is ramping up medical marijuana legalization efforts that will soon allow all Thais to cultivate six cannabis plants in their homes and sell their home-grown harvest to the government, to turn...
View ArticleHexo Admits Cannabis Was Grown in Unlicensed Part of Niagara Facility
Producer notified Health Canada instantly, which was satisfied with its corrective actions. Quebec licensed producer Hexo Corp. has admitted to growing cannabis in an unlicensed area of its Niagara...
View ArticleAt 25 Cents a Gram to Produce, is Outdoor-Grown Cannabis the Key to Lower...
Ontario outdoor cannabis grower 48North says it produced flower at this fall’s harvest for 25 cents a gram, far lower than indoor growers’ cost of $2 a gram. 48North’s lowest-priced dried flower will...
View ArticleA Tiny African Kingdom Wants to Export Its Cannabis to the World
Marijuana has been cultivated in Lesotho for centuries. Now it’s a critical piece of the government’s agricultural strategy. Kekeletso Lekaota spends her work days nurturing rows of cannabis plants for...
View ArticleProvincial Program Aims to Help Marijuana Growers Enter Legal Market
First of its kind cannabis transition team in place. Che' LeBlanc started growing marijuana before he sat at a desk in high school. He learned the craft at the foot of his father, who was also a pot...
View ArticleItalian Court Rules Home-Growing Cannabis is Legal, Restarting Legalization...
Italy’s Supreme Court has ruled that small-scale domestic cultivation of cannabis is legal, in a landmark decision triggering calls for further legalization from weed advocates and anger from the...
View ArticleWomen Ditch City Life to Move Off-Grid and Grow Cannabis on Their Own...
Three women have ditched the hustle and bustle of modern reality to live the high life off-grid. Lexie, 28, Amy, 31, and Doris, 39, now spent their days working on their own cannabis farm, sharing...
View ArticleGreenisland Cannabis Solutions Helps People Who Want to Grow Their Own...
Ashley Harnden and her husband, Shawn Harnden, have gone through all the ups and downs growing their own medical cannabis. Now, the P.E.I. couple is passing on expertise to help Islanders with the...
View ArticleMan, 80, Arrested for Growing Cannabis Plants for Cbd Oil That’s ‘Saving His...
'Is it better to be illegally alive or legally dead?' A man who was arrested for growing cannabis plants for medicinal purposes believes the law will kill him, when the Class B drug is keeping him...
View ArticleToo Few Green Lights for Smaller Cannabis Growers, Say Producers
The hippie cachet and seaside accents of Alex Rumi’s craft-grown bud have proven such a hit in Alberta, retailers and consumers can’t get enough, the producer says. “Retailers have had a hard time...
View ArticleBees Are Benefiting From Hemp Pollen as More Legal Cannabis is Grown Since...
Since the 2018 Department of Agriculture Farm Bill finally legalized industrial hemp in the United States, scientists have discovered an unexpected benefit to the new fields of green sativa: it’s is...
View ArticleProducts Made From Hemp-Based Plastics Enter Consumer Market
From toothbrushes at luxury island resorts to 3D printing filament, products made from hemp-based plastics are popping up in consumer products since the crop was made legal in the United States in 2018...
View ArticleFrustrated With Shortages, Some Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Begin...
HICAGO — Worried by widespread shortages of products at Illinois cannabis stores, medical marijuana patient David Kurfman took matters into his own hands. He started growing his own. Having suffered...
View ArticleI Manage a 100,000-Square-Foot Cannabis Growing Facility. Here Are 5...
Believe it or not, cannabis cultivation has been around for over 10,000 years. Yet those of us in the burgeoning legalized industry have just over a decade of experience to draw upon — from early "Wild...
View ArticleStoners Cheered When Canada Legalised Cannabis. How Did It Go So Wrong?
Growers have gone bust, and the black market is still thriving. The lights shone more brightly than anything I’d ever seen. One million blinding watts strafed across the leaves of countless cannabis...
View ArticleHow Technology is Transforming the Cannabis Industry
Medical marijuana has come a long way thanks to the use of technology. Here are some ways the tech industry is expanding how we get high. The last decade has been a game-changer for the legal weed...
View ArticleFormer Student Converts Thorndale, Ont. School to Grow Cannabis
Rob O'Neill used to dread being called to the principal's office at Leesboro Central Public School in Thorndale, Ont., but now it's his office as CEO of the JC Green Cannabis Company. O'Neill said in a...
View ArticleEric Zaragoza: Non-Profit, California Sun-Grown Medical Cannabis For The People
I met Eric Zaragoza through the magic of the World Wide Web. He is forthright and candid in his path through medical cannabis. I truly believe he wants to do well by others, that is why I chose to...
View ArticleGardening: Cannabis in 7 steps
Let’s say, hypothetically, you’re at home with a lot more time on your hands, no real travel plans in sight, some uncertainty in the air. Perhaps you’re itching to spend more time outdoors in your...
View ArticleCannabis May Be Legal, but One Northern Ontario Town Wants to Pass a Law...
Town council to debate proposed bylaw at meeting next month. One northern Ontario town is looking for a way to make smelly cannabis plants illegal. West Nipissing council wants to draft a bylaw to...
View ArticleCannabis Growing Facilities Up for Sale Across B.C.
Large cannabis growing facilities are up for sale in communities across the province as the industry comes to grips with slower-than-expected sales of government-sanctioned cannabis products. An...
View ArticleWest Nipissing Town Council Scraps Plan to Control Smell of Legal Cannabis
Several councillors want to see provincial or federal governments handle cannabis odours. West Nipissing has decided not to outlaw the smell of legally grown cannabis. Municipal council voted down a...
View ArticleJamaica to Help Small Farmers Enter the Cannabis Industry
Jamaica is making it easier for its small business owners and farmers to enter the cannabis industry. The Cannabis Licensing Authority of Jamaica (CLA) announced in late June that its special permit...
View ArticleCan Cannabis Help Save The Bees?
Hemp could be a vital life line for bee populations struggling in nutrient scarce environments, and can support at least 16 different species of bees, according to a recent study. Titled “The Bee...
View Article‘I’ve Put Everything I’ve Got Into This’
Cannabis farmers in a poor California town want to go legit, but the raids keep coming. Ronnie Bell's prized possessions aren't the collectible toys or bongs that clutter his ranch-style house. What...
View ArticleSmoker Farms Bringing Craft-Style Cannabis to Beaverdell
Husband-wife team growing small-scale cultivations of marijuana. Jeff Aubin is looking to bring better bud to the legal cannabis market with Smoker Farms. Located in Beaverdell, the small-batch...
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