Cannabis

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday he will resign as prime minister and Liberal leader once the party chooses a successor. Trudeau, who was first elected on Oct. 19, 2015, steps down after nearly a decade in power.

A study published recently in the journal Nature Communications Medicine found that temperature spikes due to climate change have led to a marked increase in the number of hospital visits for alcohol-related disorders — such as alcohol poisoning, alcohol withdrawal, and alcohol-induced sleep disorders — in New York state.

New statistics on medical cannabis use raise questions about what qualifies as pain management and highlight the need for more open conversations between young people and health professionals, researchers and mental health experts say.

President Joe Biden is pardoning people convicted under federal law of possessing marijuana — and signalling that he's willing to revisit whether cannabis should remain a controlled substance in the United States.

Canada’s financial intelligence agency says a wide range of businesses — from food wholesalers to electronics repair services — are being used to disguise the proceeds of illicit cannabis operations.

More than six in 10 Canadian teenagers and more than a quarter of young adults have never touched a cigarette, Statistics Canada says, but vaping is growing in popularity among the younger demographic.

A youth-led project backed by mental health groups offers an online curriculum for young people to explore links between cannabis and mental health and aims to provide engaging health promotion and harm reduction resources.

A long history of targeted drug law enforcement has left some in Canada’s Black communities wary of cannabis despite it now being legal, and it's a slow process to undo that trauma-informed stigma.

As the federal government begins a review of of the cannabis sector following legalization's three-year anniversary, B.C.'s celebrated craft growers still find themselves out in the weeds.

Cannabis giant Canopy Growth has reported its emissions for the first time, revealing its energy use was equivalent to burning more than 65 million pounds of coal in 2020.

Canada's cannabis industry, banking on the chance to expand into the United States, is nervously eyeing the American political calendar and the Biden administration's narrow legislative window to ease federal prohibitions on recreational marijuana.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the mothers of young children especially hard, research conducted for the Mental Health Commission of Canada shows, as they often seek to balance paid and unpaid work from home.

A new survey has found one in four Canadian adults reported using cannabis at least once within the period of one year.

Canadian entrepreneur Guy Laliberte, founder of the Cirque du Soleil circus company, has been taken into custody in French Polynesia over claims of cannabis cultivation, his company said on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

British Columbia's solicitor general says the province wants to see as much small-scale production as possible for marijuana edibles to allow for regional economic development.