The past year was a big success for micro-cultivators as the number of licence holders across Canada continued to grow. Most licences are still for standard cultivation overall, but micro’s are gaining momentum—both in the industry and with consumers. The journey of a micro brand isn’t an easy one. Maintaining a successful company with high taxes…
As of today, it is officially possible to order weed on Uber Eats. The popular delivery app is trying something new and adding cannabis to its marketplace, which also facilitates alcohol and food orders. Uber Eats has announced a partnership with Ontario-based cannabis retailer Tokyo Smoke, owned by Canopy Growth. After selecting the pick-up option,…
To say budtenders are essential to the cannabis industry is an understatement. These frontline workers help consumers make sense of the many product options in Canadian cannabis. As the industry grows more complicated—with new products, regulations, and trends—customers are leaning on the expertise, tastes and suggestions of their local budtenders more and more. In turn,…
Meet Canada’s newest favourite cannabinoid—CBN. Short for Cannabinol, CBN has been popping up in products in gummies, vapes, beverages, and infused oils. While many of the products are marketed as a natural sleep aid, the jury is still out on whether or not CBN is truly sedating. Regardless, a new flood of cannabinoid-specific products have…
If you’re looking for the ultimate in relaxation and pampering, cannbis-infused bath products are a worthy option. With plenty of choices from creams and lotions to bath bombs and salts, there’s something to please nearly everyone. Keep in mind that topical products such as those applied in the bath will be absorbed differently than cannabis…
If you don’t want to fiddle around with fancy tech to vape your weed, there’s an incredibly accessible product market to tap into—510-threaded cartridges. Considered the ‘universal standard’ of vape tech, all you need is a cartridge and a battery. Just twist and toke. Most stick batteries on the market are reasonably inexpensive and give…
If you don’t want to fiddle around with fancy tech to vape your weed, there’s an incredibly accessible product market to tap into—510-threaded cartridges. Considered the ‘universal standard’ of vape tech, all you need is a cartridge and a battery. Just twist and toke. Most stick batteries on the market are reasonably inexpensive and give…
Cannabis and coffee—for many, it’s a match made in heaven. If that sounds like you, then this delicious spin on cannabis-infused iced coffee is just the thing. Fuse, a brand under Emerald Health Therapeutics, partnered up with Andrew Freedman, the Cannabis Sommelier himself, to create drink recipes to celebrate the launch of their 10mL nano…
While federal Canadian law says Canadians are entitled to grow up to four cannabis plants per household, two provinces, Quebec and Manitoba, have denied this right to their citizens. Instead, both provinces argue they have the right to regulate not only how their residents grow cannabis, but also to to ban it entirely, invoking the…
Mera Cannabis Corp has just introduced a traditional RSO tincture to the Canadian market —a development that company executives are hailing as a milestone. They describe it as the first product of its kind on this country’s legal market and they expect it to make a big impact. Ben Gottlieb, the company’s vice president of…
Has the pandemic changed the way you get high? It did for me. As the respiratory virus ravaged the planet this past year, my usual joint-smoking routine transformed from being a social time shared with friends to a strictly solo affair. In lockdown, a sesh became decidedly less joyous and more reflective for me—an opportunity…
When the pandemic struck, Canadians retreated to their homes and about a million of them became unemployed. Dealing with social isolation and uncertainty, many people turned to cannabis to ease their anxiety and depression, or just to alleviate boredom. Additionally, the number of licensed cannabis retail stores exploded coast-to-coast. With increased access, and more idle…
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