Aurora Cannabis has purchased two companies as part of its strategy to tap Canada’s rapidly growing market for patients who cultivate their own medical marijuana and ultimately for consumers who choose to grow their own cannabis after recreational legalization takes...
Tilray has started supplying medical marijuana to the New Zealand market for nationwide distribution, filling the nation's cannabis supply shortfall two weeks after its government lifted restrictions on cannabidiol. British Columbia-based Tilray's medical marijuana...
Five Questions with Neil Closner, CEO of MedReleaf by Matt Lamers MedReleaf is locked, loaded and ready to grow. The Ontario company is flush with money as it prepares for the anticipated rollout of Canada’s recreational marijuana market next summer and the major...
PUF Ventures plans to build a 1-million-square-foot medical marijuana greenhouse in Australia that could eventually generate about 1 billion Canadian dollars ($850 million) annually, according to a news release from the company. The company - based in Vancouver,...
Canada’s medical marijuana sector is continuing its blistering pace of growth, bringing with it more jobs and higher, more competitive salaries. The industry could add another 150,000 jobs over the next couple of years, according to one estimate, and a recent survey...
Sixty-five percent of current and potential cannabis consumers in Canada believe licensed growers should be allowed to open retail stores once recreational marijuana is legalized next year, according to a new poll. The Oraclepoll Research survey also found that 63% of...
British Columbia’s government plans to pass legislation next spring regulating recreational marijuana, a move that will have vast implications for dispensaries, lounges and other small businesses already operating in the province’s thriving gray market. The province...
Canopy Growth signed a strategic partnership to expand into Denmark and will invest 10 million Canadian dollars ($8.12 million) in the joint venture, continuing the flurry of activity in Europe by Canadian marijuana companies. Canopy Growth will form a joint venture...
Hydropothecary Corp., the sole licensed producer of medical cannabis in Quebec, said it has become the only business in Canada to offer certified kosher cannabis products - a move intended to expand the company's potential customer base. CEO Sebastien St. Louis told...
The Ontario government is considering setting the retail price of recreational marijuana at around 10 Canadian dollars per gram ($8.10) come legalization next summer, raising the question of whether the price will be low enough to deter consumers from going to the...
By Matt Lamers After the Ontario government slammed the door on marijuana retail entrepreneurs, the province left the door open — ever so slightly — for the eventual licensing of cannabis-consumption lounges. Ontario's cannabis legalization framework, released earlier...
Aurora Cannabis sent its first shipment of medical marijuana to Germany, a market with so much growth potential that Canadian licensed producers have been racing to gain a toehold there. Monday's shipment of 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of dried cannabis to Berlin-based...
