Top Stories (2025) -
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| Mar 20, 2025 |
Canadian cannabis companies look overseas as domestic market saturates Facing a saturated market and intense competition domestically, Canadian cannabis companies are exporting more of their products overseas. |
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| Mar 19, 2025 |
Up in smoke: a new book charts the evolution of legalized cannabis in Canada One of Justin Trudeau’s principal legislative achievements during his near decade as prime minister was the federal government’s legalization of cannabis on Oct. 17, 2018. But nearly seven years later, what was once considered a golden goose has gone up in smoke according to journalist Ben Kaplan, author of Catch a Fire: The Blaze and Bust of the Canadian Cannabis Industry. |
| Mar 19, 2025 |
Windsor, Leamington suspects accused of running illegal cannabis store Investigators say they have seized nearly $50,000 worth of marijuana and shut down an illegal cannabis dispensary. Windsor police and the Ontario Provincial Police raided the Pillette Road store, called Kush City, on March 4 following a four-month investigation. |
| Mar 19, 2025 |
How Trump’s trade war is impacting Canadian cannabis supply chains
Although Canadian cannabis is not directly impacted by the emerging trade war with the US, many aspects of the cannabis industry supply chain could be. This can mean increased costs for producers, and those costs being passed on to consumers. |
| Mar 18, 2025 |
Canada’s Cannabis Market: Study Reveals Price, Not Store Count, Drives Usage Trends
The price of cannabis has a more significant effect on consumer behaviour than store count, according to a newly published study on the Canadian cannabis market. Published in European Addiction Research, ‘Exploring Associations between Cannabis Prices, Stores, and Usage after Recreational Legalization’ examined trends from 2019 to 2023, in which time legal cannabis stores increased 13-fold, while prices dropped by 28% on average. |
| Mar 17, 2025 |
Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Find Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The epigenome functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function. |
| Mar 17, 2025 |
The future of outdoor cannabis in Canada Despite its lower production costs and sustainability advantages, outdoor cannabis cultivation has had a challenging go of it in Canada’s legal market. While large-scale indoor and greenhouse operations dominate, outdoor growers face unique challenges—from market oversaturation to unpredictable weather. Yet, those who have weathered the storm are beginning to see glimmers of opportunity. |
| Mar 14, 2025 |
Despite cannabis industry woes, Canada remains the largest exporter of legal marijuana in the world A book about cannabis says the industry has right-sized after a market for legal weed did not materialize. In 'Catch A Fire", author Ben Kaplan argues that despite all losses by investors, Canada's cannabis experiment has still been a success. |
| Mar 12, 2025 |
Health Canada Proposes Making CBD Products Available Without Prescription
Canada’s health regulator has announced plans to establish a regulatory framework enabling CBD products to be sold over the counter without a prescription. Despite Canada being the largest country on earth to federally legalize cannabis for adult-use purposes, CBD and all other phytocannabinoids have been on the Prescription Drug List (PDL) since 2018. |
| Mar 12, 2025 |
Updates to cannabis rules and regulations now made public Health Canada has published their scheduled updates to the Cannabis Regulations, Hemp Regulations, and Cannabis Act, streamlining some aspects of the regulations to benefit the legal cannabis market. |
| Mar 11, 2025 |
2 charged after 4,000 illegal cannabis plants seized in Ontario: police Provincial police say they've charged two people from Mississauga, Ont., after seizing more than 4,000 illegal cannabis plants in the Niagara region. |
| 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. |
| Mar 11, 2025 |
Cannabis producers want to play their part in push to strengthen Canada’s economy As Canadians focus on ways to strengthen their economy in the wake of ongoing threats from the current US government, many in the Canadian cannabis industry say they think cannabis is being overlooked as an economic powerhouse. Contributing hundreds of millions of dollars in excise tax to provinces since legalization began, and more than $8.3 billion to the country’s GDP in 2024, including the creation of thousands of jobs across the country, while not being at all reliant on US trade, Canada’s cannabis industry is in a unique position. |
| Mar 11, 2025 |
Health Canada Consultation: Proposed Regulatory Pathway for Non-Prescription CBD Products
Health Canada has launched a consultation on a proposed regulatory pathway for health products containing cannabidiol (CBD) that would allow access without a prescription. This marks a significant step in the evolving regulatory landscape for CBD products, which are currently governed under the Cannabis Act. |
| Mar 10, 2025 |
Cannabis industry’s contribution to Canada’s GDP continues to increase Canada’s legal cannabis industry contributed more than $8.3 billion to the country’s GDP in 2024, according to the most recent figures from Statistics Canada. |
| Mar 10, 2025 |
Four20 seeks extension and acceptance of recent plan of compromise In a bench brief in early March, 420 Premium Markets Ltd. and its associated companies sought an extension of its CCAA proceedings to April 30, 2025. The brief also seeks to authorize Four20 to establish two classes of Affected Creditors and seeks to accept the filing of the plan of compromise and arrangement of FOUR20 dated March 3, 2025. |
| 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 7, 2025 |
Certifying Trust- Control Union Canada’s role in cannabis compliance In an industry where certifications are a benchmark for identifying qualified producers and manufacturers, Control Union Canada has established itself as a leading body to ensure cannabis producers meet the highest international standards. |
| Mar 7, 2025 |
Canadians are consuming less alcohol and more cannabis
Cannabis sales increased from 2023 while alcohol sales declined somewhat, according to the newest figures shared by Statistics Canada. Although cannabis sales have been somewhat cooling from the exponential growth seen in the first few years of legalization, sales of recreational cannabis by provincial cannabis authorities and other retail outlets increased 11.6% or $500 million from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023. |
| Mar 7, 2025 |
Canadians list cannabis legalization as Trudeau’s crowning success New polling data shows that Canadians rank cannabis legalization as Justin Trudeau’s top accomplishment in his nearly ten years in office. The online poll, conducted and presented by the Angus Reid Institute, took place from March 4-6, 2025, among a representative randomized sample of 1,850 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum. |