First Nations entrepreneurs big winners of Manitoba cannabis plan: A group of First Nations looks set to win big in the Manitoba cannabis market, thanks to partnerships with several cannabis companies chosen to run the province’s private marijuana retails
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The developers also said marijuana grown by Nations Cannabis would be better regulated and healthier than that sold in the black market or grown by individuals in their homes following marijuana legalization later this year.
by Tom Blackwell, The National Post, March 15, 2016 Sandra Thorkelson sees them huddled outside the addiction clinic opposite her bank in North Bay, Ont., and knows a surprising number personally. They are patients on methadone treatment, though some admit to Thorkelson their daily dose of the synthetic opioid is…
by Kelly Grant, The Globe and Mail, March 08, 2018 A U.S. addiction-treatment company has bought out Canada’s largest chain of methadone clinics, an acquisition that comes as more and more Canadians seek prescribed medication to manage their withdrawal from opioid painkillers and street drugs. Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced…
A groundbreaking 2014 ruling by Ontario Justice Gethin Edwards may point the way to Indigenous medicine claiming cannabis as an “Aboriginal right.” Indigenous Medical rights and the Constitution In 2014, Ontario Court Justice Gethin Edward made a groundbreaking ruling in a case having to do with Aboriginal rights and Indigenous medicine. The…
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – From May 18 to 21st, 2018, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory will play host to an unprecedented gathering of Indigenous people and their allies at the first annual Smoke Signals Indigenous Cannabis Cup. The event was initiated by Smoke Signals Dispensary owner Jamie Kunkel,…
by Jane George, Nunatsiaq News, October 27, 2017 CAMBRIDGE BAY—If Nunavut’s next MLAs want direction on issues ranging from the legalization of cannabis to education, they can turn to the resolutions that emerged from the annual general meeting of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the birthright organization for the territory’s Inuit, which…
by Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis, CBC News, August 13, 2015 Forget about weight watchers; new research out of Nunavik suggests the secret to a slim figure might be… marijuana. Recently, researchers from Quebec looked into why levels of Type 2 diabetes were so low among Inuit. The study, called “Cannabis use in relation to…
This text is excerpted from pages 124-129 of The Great Book of Hemp (1996). By Rowan Robinson The Vikings depended on hemp for their sails and rope, and they probably carried hemp seed with them and planted it when they visited North America about a thousand years ago. Sailors usually carried supplies…
PHOTO: Waterloo Regional Police Chief Bryan Larkin, who serves as president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, was in Toronto to warn drug users about buying their weed from illegal sources. (Ed Middleton/CBC News ) By CBC Toronto, Mar 13, 2018 With legalization on the horizon, chiefs hope to…