Canada

Cannabis flower prices in Canada have plummeted about 30-40% over the last year of legal sales, according to financial reports from multiple licensed producers.

Officials in Quebec, Canada have raised the age for legal cannabis purchases from 18 to 21. 18-year-olds, meanwhile, can still purchase and consume alcohol in Quebec.

Canada’s Freedom Cannabis is moving to emphasize environmental responsibility with the launch of its latest product line, which uses a recyclable steel container that bucks the national trend of plastic containers.

Heco Corp., a licensed cannabis producer in Canada, just laid off about 200 workers — including some executive positions — in order to adjust “to a changing market and regulatory environment.”

The Arthritis Society of Canada has called for medical cannabis products to be available on pharmacy shelves; the group also called for ending the $1 per gram federal excise tax on cannabis.

A new RE/MAX housing report found that Canada’s legal cannabis industry has driven up housing prices in regions with successful cannabis operators, despite warnings from anti-legalization advocates that the opposite would happen.

The United Kingdom has given a license to Canada’s Canopy Growth that allows the company to import bulk medical cannabis products into the UK.

Troubled Canadian cannabis operator CannTrust is set to destroy $65 million in inventory and $12 million worth of biological assets as part of its remediation plan to get its license back.

Quebec’s government announced it will appeal a recent court decision that ruled the province’s ban on home cannabis cultivation is unconstitutional.

A class-action lawsuit against Sundial Growers Inc. in Canada claims the company’s U.S. stock prices were affected by an unreported incident where $1.9 million worth of cannabis was returned to the company due to poor quality.

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A study found that three out of four Canadians believe adult-use cannabis legalization has not had an impact on workplace health and safety incidents.

Canada’s cannabis industry contributed $8.26 billion to the country’s national gross domestic product as of July; that rise corresponds with a decline in other traditional industries, like mining, construction, and manufacturing.

Almost half of Ontario, Canada’s 42 cannabis license applicants in the second round of the licensing lottery have been disqualified for breaking rules and for failing to submit all of the required documents.

After the unveiling of multiple compliance failures, Canadian cannabis producer CannTrust Holdings Inc. has had its license suspended by Health Canada; the company is allowed to complete its existing crops and perform other tasks like trimming and curing, but cannot sell or propagate new batches of cannabis.

Some three million additional Canadians are expected to participate in the country’s cannabis industry as consumers once infused edibles are made available later this year.

The planned cannabis cruise departing from Windsor, Ontario has been canceled after officials said it would have violated the Smoke-Free Ontario Act.

Nearly one full year after cannabis was legalized federally in Canada, only 77 people have applied to have cannabis charges expunged from their background and just 44 have been successfully pardoned.

The first annual cannabis cruise from Windsor River Cruises and Border City Entertainment sold out in just two days; attendees must be aged 19 years or older and must bring their own cannabis for the three-hour cruise.

The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada has added an online cannabis production course to the university’s existing horticulture certificate program.

A judge in Quebec’s Superior Court has ruled that the current provincial ban on homegrown cannabis is unconstitutional; experts say, however, that a similar ban could be carried out lawfully.

Canada’s Paracanna has announced its launch of a DIY cannabis gummies kit, which allows consumers to add drops of oil to create gummies in a variety of flavors.

In the almost year since legal adult-use sales launched in Canada, cannabis industry employment has nearly quadrupled from 2,630 positions filled to 9,200.

These are the main takeaways from my first experience at a legal Canadian cannabis dispensary in Montreal, Quebec.