Faced with skyrocketing costs and ballooning demand, the federal government is dramatically cutting back the amount of medical marijuana it will cover for veterans. Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr plans to scale back the limit for reimbursement from 10 grams of medical marijuana per day to...
Canada's largest pharmacy chain has formally applied to be a distributor of medical marijuana. "We have applied to be a licensed producer strictly for the purposes of distributing medical marijuana," Shoppers Drug Mart spokeswoman Tammy Smitham told CBC News in an email Tuesday. Read More ...
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...
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...