Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the biggest challenge associated with the legalization of cannabis has been the supply shortage — but he expects it to disappear within a year.
The Quebec government tabled legislation on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, that would impose the strictest cannabis controls in the country, raising the legal age to 21 and outlawing consumption in public.
The managers of two pot shops on Vancouver Island where police seized thousands of dollars worth of marijuana say the British Columbia government failed them by only approving one store in the province before legalization as raids were reported on both ends of the country.
Canada's shift to a legal cannabis regime is just the first of what the government says are several steps to come, from regulating edibles to training more drug cops.
Sylvie Cadieux was concerned when she first heard that a cannabis company was setting up shop in Masson-Angers, a small bedroom community in Gatineau, Quebec, across the river from Ottawa. And now?
Jimmy's Cannabis will be opening its doors to the public for the first time on Oct. 17 — but it's still not clear whether there will be any pot products on its shelves.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested on Saturday, October 13, 2018, morning the incoming Quebec government's plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis to 21 could leave an opening for organized crime.
Doctor Melissa Genereux, head of public health in Quebec's Eastern Townships region, thought she had persuaded local officials not to introduce a strict cannabis bylaw in the area's largest city, Sherbrooke.