Health Minister Rona Ambrose has ordered a crackdown on groups that illegally advertise marijuana, and has reiterated the Conservative party's pledge to keep storefront dispensaries illegal in an press release issued on Saturday.
"The law is quite clear that dispensaries, whether they…
In the United States, 46 people die each day from opioid overdose.
Marijuana may help in overcoming painkiller abuse, according to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, and authored by researchers David Powell, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Mireille…
By Frances Bula
This article originally appeared on The Globe and Mail, April 22nd 2015.
Vancouver is about to become the first city in Canada to regulate medical-marijuana dispensaries, setting up strict conditions that will include obtaining a special business licence, paying…
By Amy Judd
This article originally appeared in Global News on February 9th 2014.
VANCOUVER – There are many neighbourhoods in Vancouver where you can’t drive down the street without seeing medical marijuana dispensaries.
There are 60 of them in the city of Vancouver alone.…