(2025) -
Current Affairs (4 items)
| Mar 11, 2025 |
Alberta's new QR code system enhances cannabis transparency, a first for Canada
A pilot project in Alberta is aiming to transform cannabis product transparency with Metrc’s Retail ID system. By simply scanning a QR code provided at purchase, consumers gain access to lab test results, certificates of analysis (COA), product name, image, cannabinoid, and terpenes, ensuring greater trust in legal cannabis products. |
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| Mar 9, 2025 |
Legalizing cannabis was the best thing Trudeau did, Angus Reid poll affirms
A new poll has shown that Canadians think legalizing cannabis was the greatest accomplishment of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Nine years gone by and that’s the best thing he managed to do for the country, according to the 1,850 people surveyed. That is so true! |
| Mar 6, 2025 |
Cannabis continues to be excluded from interprovincial trade discussions
Most provinces, except for PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador, have signed an agreement to allow interprovincial alcohol sales directly to consumers. <br/> The cannabis industry has been asking for similar changes for years, but was not included in the conversation or subsequent announcement about lessening restrictions on cross-provincial alcohol sales. |
| Feb 26, 2025 |
Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Cannabis (Streamlining of Requirements) SOR/202
Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, makes the annexed Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Cannabis (Streamlining of Requirements) under (a) subsection 139(1) of the Cannabis Act footnotea; and (b) subsection 30(1)footnoteb of the Food and Drugs Act footnotec. |