Just slightly better than a coin toss! Yikes. That’s how well Leafly News predicted the future, as written in 2020. For obvious reasons, everyone’s best-laid plans got swept into history’s junk drawer—next to lawn darts, and those Easter Island statues. Our most accurate 2020 predictions were both pessimistic and optimistic. The sclerotic US Senate stymying…
Gone are the days where packing a bowl or rolling a joint were the few ways to use weed. Maybe if you were the Martha Stewart type you made infused butter and baked it into brownies. But with legalization 2.0 now into its second year in Canada, there are more products than ever that’ll get…
The rules around opening a cannabis storefront can be confusing at the best of times – and these have not been the best of times. In addition to the specific obstacle course that each province presents for Canadian cannabis retailers, the wave of pot shops that have opened against the backdrop of COVID-19 have faced…
Presented By Tweed December 11, 2020 It’s Canada’s first holiday season with cannabis beverages! Edibles, inclusive of infused drinks, were legalized across the country in late 2019 but only started rolling out this past spring. And while we wish we were setting a place at the table to cheers each other with glasses full of…
Small batch, micro cannabis products are bringing a quality and bag appeal to the consumer market that is changing the game in Canada, say several retailers and growers across the country. Although much of the first two years of legalization in Canada has been dominated by cannabis produced by some of the country’s larger, often…
If giving a bottle of wine or a booze-soaked fruit cake is acceptable, it should be no surprise that cannabis is also an increasingly covetable gift. According to a joint study conducted by Edison Cannabis Co. and Applied Knowledge Insights Group, 60% of Canadians are open to gifting cannabis this holiday season, with respondents listing…
Instagram continues to frustrate legal cannabis companies in Canada, with what some business owners are deeming to be random and arbitrary enforcement actions. Leafly spoke with three legal cannabis retailers who have had their accounts deleted in the past few weeks, one a non-medical store in Alberta, one a medical cannabis retailer in Ontario, and…
The move towards a farm-to-table system in Canada’s legal cannabis sector is gaining momentum. In Alberta, growers are joining those in B.C. and Ontario in pushing for the right to provide customers the opportunity to purchase and sample the product right where it’s grown. It’s not hard to imagine a future where people can tour…
Medical cannabis has been legally available to Canadian patients since 2001, and more broadly through licensed retailers since 2013, but it’s still a relatively complicated system to navigate. Unlike other prescription drugs, medical cannabis is not prescribed at all, but rather its use is authorized by a doctor. Not necessarily your doctor either, as many…
Fall is here, and along with the cool air, changing leaves, and promise of a turkey dinner, my most favorite and time-honored tradition is a weekly activity that I’ve dubbed the “Triple Bake.” It’s the ultimate trinity of autumn indulgences for a stoner like me. Made possible on a weekly basis for a short window…
Like Dry January, Sober October is a growing movement where folks willingly stop drinking alcohol for the month. The reasons to partake in this 31-day booze-free challenge vary from person to person, but not everyone who does it is willing or able to nix their cannabis consumption. Not to mention, there’s a growing percentage of…
Under 2020’s pandemic-induced lockdown, I did what many cannabis-loving Canadians did this spring: I planted some weed. Adults in most Canadian provinces are permitted to cultivate up to four recreational cannabis plants per household. And while cannabis can grow like, well, a weed… maximizing the yield from just four plants takes a certain amount of…
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