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Pot stocks gain as U.S. move to ease curbs lifts sentiment
An employee shows a growing cannabis or hemp plant in a box at the Cannabis Museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023.
canada
Meet the deceptively pretty creeping bellflower, and the gardeners on a mission to kill it
Creeping Bellflower, an invasive species, growing along Rogers Rd. in these pictures, are photographed on Aug 24, 2023. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
first person
How I fill my pantry shelves with preserved summer sunshine
report on business
Cannabis firm Tilray takes full ownership of Truss Beverage from Molson Coors Canada
A man walks past the Canadian medical cannabis producer "Tilray" headquarters at its European production site in Cantanhede, on April 24, 2018. - The Canadian company Tilray, which aims to become one of the world's leaders in the therapeutic cannabis industry, inaugurated its European production site today in the central Portuguese town of Cantanhede. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP/Getty Images
world
German cabinet passes landmark bill legalizing recreational marijuana use, cultivation
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach poses on the day of a press conference on the cannabis law in Berlin, Germany August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
opinion
Too many cannabis shops, too much production: the industry’s perennial problem
Michael Armstrong
report on business
Tilray tripling U.S. beer business, add eight new alcohol brands for US$85-million
A man walks past the Canadian medical cannabis producer "Tilray" headquarters at its European production site in Cantanhede, on April 24, 2018. - The Canadian company Tilray, which aims to become one of the world's leaders in the therapeutic cannabis industry, inaugurated its European production site today in the central Portuguese town of Cantanhede. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP/Getty Images
opinion
It’s hard to sympathize with the U.S. marijuana companies cast out by banks
Gus Carlson
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How safe is our cannabis? Nearly five years after legalization, we still don’t know
A customer shows the marijuana he bought in a cannabis store in Quebec City, Quebec on October 17, 2018. - Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the first major Western nation to legalize and regulate its sale and recreational use. Scores of customers braved the cold for hours outside Tweed, a pot boutique in St John's, Newfoundland that opened briefly at midnight, to buy their first grams of legal cannabis.In total, Statistics Canada says 5.4 million Canadians will buy cannabis from legal dispensaries in 2018 -- about 15 percent of the population. Around 4.9 million already smoke. (Photo by Alice Chiche / AFP)ALICE CHICHE/AFP/Getty Images
world
‘I 100 per cent knew this was going to happen’: Previous passengers recall their time on the ill-fated Titan submersible
FILE - This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. Rescuers are racing against time to find the missing submersible carrying five people, who were reported overdue Sunday night. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)
olympics
NCAA committee recommends dropping marijuana from banned drug list for athletes
FILE - Signage at the headquarters of the NCAA is viewed in Indianapolis, March 12, 2020. An NCAA medical committee believes it is time to remove marijuana from the governing body's list of banned drugs. It also thinks drug testing should be limited to performance-enhancing substances. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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Quebec’s provincially-owned cannabis retailer SQDC sees growth plateau amid strike
A person walks into an SQDC store in Montreal, Saturday, January 15, 2022. Quebec's cannabis subsidiary says its growth has plateaued for the first time despite the number of pot shops in the province increasing. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Cannabis retailer Fire & Flower files for CCAA protection amid losses, brutal industry competition
FILE PHOTO: Employees at the Fire and Flower store prepare an order for a customer as the first legal cannabis stores open in the province of Ontario, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 1, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
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Competition Bureau recommends changing THC limits for edibles, easing cannabis packaging restrictions
Canada's competition watchdog says the federal government should consider easing restrictions on cannabis packaging and limits on how much of pot’s psychoactive component can be edible products. A variety of cannabis edibles are displayed at the Ontario Cannabis Store in Toronto on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
world
Singapore executes man over kilo of cannabis, defying international calls for clemency
Leelavathy Suppiah (L), sister of a convicted drug trafficker Tangaraju Suppiah, who is scheduled for execution, reacts during a press conference in Singapore on April 23, 2023. - The family of a Singaporean man due to be hanged next week over a kilogram of cannabis pleaded for clemency from the authorities April 23 and urged a retrial. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Singapore to resume executions after six-month break
FILE - The Merlion statue spouts water at a park with the background of a business district in Singapore on Sept, 21, 2019. A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state, in a resumption of executions after a half-year pause, activists said Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
u.s. business
U.S. cannabis companies look to ‘4/20′ to light up sales
FILE PHOTO: A worker organizes cannabis flowers before the opening of the first legal recreational marijuana dispensary located in the East Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
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Mississauga, Ont., votes to allow legal retail cannabis stores
Ontario's largest municipality without any legal cannabis retail stores has voted to now allow the shops. Mississauga, Ont., was one of dozens of municipalities to bar retail cannabis stores from their communities when legalization came into effect in 2018. Cannabis is displayed at a storeins in Rutland, Vt., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Lisa Rathke
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Cannabis shop robberies spur push to end restrictions on window displays
Customers enter the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation cannabis store in Halifax on Oct. 17, 2018. A spate of cannabis store robberies has many in the industry calling for provinces to relax regulations requiring window coverings or cannabis to be kept out of sight of minors. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan