A Manitoba man has filed a constitutional challenge over the province’s rules about growing pot at home. Jesse Lavoie filed the notice of application on Wednesday, naming the government of Manitoba, the attorney general of Manitoba and the attorney general of Canada in his challenge.… Read More »Manitoba man taking province to court over ban on growing pot at home – National
On Wednesday, Regina city council reversed a recent decision to put a temporary moratorium on new cannabis retail stores in the city. Read more: City relaxes proposed cannabis zoning bylaw Council struck down the new bylaw on its second reading that would have put a… Read More »Regina city council votes down cannabis moratorium bylaw – Regina
When you walk down Calgary’s alleys, on the walls of Beltline buildings you might see curious cats sneaking around a bird condo, island elements that make you feel like you’re on a beach or an accidental take on the Mona Lisa. These creative concepts are… Read More »Artists add 20 murals to Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood for 2020 festival – Calgary
OPP say they confiscated several types of cannabis products during a traffic stop on Highway 401 in Tyendinaga Township on Saturday. OPP say around 11 p.m., police stopped a vehicle that was speeding in the westbound lanes of the highway. According to OPP, the driver… Read More »OPP confiscate cannabis products during traffic stop in Tyendinaga – Kingston
A former illicit drug user says cannabis use helped her quit heroin and meth. Linda Aylesworth tells us why she isn’t alone in finding cannabis use as a tool to harm reduction. Source link
A Vancouver city councillor says she’s concerned compliance officers won’t have the necessary resources to effectively make use of new COVID-19 enforcement powers. On Friday, Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth granted new authority to police, liquor, gaming, and cannabis inspectors and conservation officers to issue… Read More »Vancouver councillor says more resources needed to enforce new COVID-19 fines
Nineteen people face charges after Ontario Provincial Police seized nearly 1,900 cannabis plants in the Municipality of Trent Hills on Wednesday. As part of an investigation led by the OPP’s Community Street Crime Units from Northumberland, Peterborough and City of Kawartha Lakes, officers on Wednesday… Read More »19 arrested after nearly 1,900 pot plants seized in Trent Hills: Northumberland OPP – Peterborough
Police say they’ve seized more than $42 million worth of illegal cannabis in the Niagara Region, much of which was destined for the American underground market. The bust comes out of a year-old operation called Project Woolwich, run by the Ontario Provincial Police and several… Read More »OPP announce $42 million illegal cannabis bust in Niagara Region
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles city attorney has filed dozens of criminal charges alleging fire code and safety violations against the owner of a building that exploded in the city’s downtown and injured 12 firefighters, officials announced Friday. The owner of the building faces… Read More »LA prosecutor files charges in May explosion that injured 12
In a warm, encyclopedic tribute to her family Wednesday night, as she formally accepted the vice-presidential nomination, Sen. Kamala Harris skimmed past any discussion of her father, Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born professor of economics at Stanford University. The reason is common to many of Harris’… Read More »Kamala Harris’ father, a footnote in her speeches, is a prominent economist