A recent Supreme Court ruling and newly elected government suggest Mexico could soon follow Canada down the road of cannabis legalization. Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Oct. 31 - for the fifth time since November 2015 - that a total prohibition of recreational...
The largest supplier of medical marijuana in Israel is not distributing or selling products from its facility in Biriya after the Ministry of Health raised questions over a new drying process - but the company expects the facility to be up and running in a matter of...
Canada’s largest recreational cannabis market will start accepting applications in December for prospective retail outlets to open next spring.
The president of the largest marijuana retailer in Canada - the Ontario Cannabis Store - is blaming excessive shipping delays on licensed MJ producers for mislabeling some of their products. Some customers who ordered recreational cannabis on the first day of...
British Columbia awarded its first license for a privately owned recreational cannabis store, roughly two weeks after adult-use marijuana was legalized in Canada, while neighboring Alberta has licensed 49 locations. The new store - Tamarack Cannabis Boutique - is in...
Canadian regulators approved new cultivation space at a frantic pace in the months leading up to legalization, but not fast enough to avert the widely predicted shortage of legal cannabis. In the month before the launch of Canada's legal recreational cannabis market,...
Two weeks after Canada legalized marijuana, businesses in British Columbia that applied for cannabis licenses remain in the dark about when their applications could be approved.
Just two weeks after Canada legalized cannabis, a leading investment bank is warning investors it is “increasingly clear” recreational marijuana sales this year will come in much lower than expected. GMP Securities, an independent investment bank that services the...
A new report pegs Australia’s recreational cannabis market at 7.8 billion Australian dollars ($5.5 billion) – assuming a fully legal and regulated market is put in place by 2023.
Vanuatu, an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, plans to introduce legislation later this year or next spring to launch an “ethical” medical cannabis industry. The Council of Ministers - effectively the country's cabinet - approved a “Policy Direction on...
Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis said it received the green light to ship medical marijuana to Poland, making the Canadian company “the first nongovernment-run business” to win approval to supply medical marijuana products in the eastern European country.
British Columbia’s dismal cannabis sales in the opening hours of legalization should be seen by provincial and federal regulators as a sign to do more to entice illicit players to join the regulated industry, experts say. Among the provinces that disclosed first-day...
