Canadian patients making the switch from highly addictive opioids to medical marijuana to cope with chronic pain and other ailments have been warned it’s against the law to take that relief across the border.Read More...
Read More After more than a decade of confusion at Canada's airports, the country's air transport security authority is now providing guidance to passengers travelling with prescription cannabis....
Birth certificates, medical imaging, passports, prescriptions, biopsy reports, mental health assessments and more — the personal information and medical records of an unknown number of patients were publicly available on the website of a Vancouver marijuana dispensary until recently. It is not clear whether the information...
Police in the Niagara Region say Health Canada medical marijuana licences are being used to hide illegal grow-ops, after 18 people were arrested and more than 4,000 plants seized in three raids. Niagara Regional Police investigated over the past 13 months and executed three search warrants...
In the winter of 1972, 20 young women took part in one of the weirdest scientific experiments in this country’s history. For 98 days in a downtown Toronto hospital, their brains, hearts, kidneys, livers, blood and urine were rigorously tested and analyzed. A team of...
The people behind the new vaping lounge in downtown Windsor say it’s not just about providing a place for medical marijuana users to toke up — it’s about clearing the air when it comes to pot....
Local government leaders will spend a lot of time talking about marijuana this week at their annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Victoria. With the federal government looking to legalize the recreational use of marijuana sometime next year, up to four resolutions dealing with pot...
P.E.I.’s first medical marijuana growing facility is ready to start harvesting a much sought-after product. Edwin Jewell, president of Canada’s Island Garden Inc., is “extremely confident’’ the first batch of pot at the 2,160-square-metre facility located in the BioCommons Research Park in Charlottetown will make the...
A provincial working group looking at how to prepare for the legalization of marijuana is exploring a wide range of issues as it awaits further direction from the federal government, says member Brian Harriman. The group needs to know what will be mandated federally and what types of decisions...