Medicated while driving: Medicinal cannabis patients get a break under Bill 174
For all the medical cannabis patients rightfully worried about being thrown in jail for driving while medicated, there’s...
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Ontario to end folly of liquor monopoly while blindly pushing ahead with gov’t-controlled cannabis
Ontario’s recently elected Progressive Conservative government announced its plans to end the LCBO’s near-monopoly on alcohol sales in...
Your Papers, Please!
I don’t care what you think of the “Ford Nation,” or Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party — anyone is...
Doug Ford, Free Markets, and Cannabis
Ontario is approaching a provincial election. The normally centre-of-the-spectrum Ontario Liberals have shifted so far to the left...
Free market vs. government monopoly: recreational cannabis fight heats up in Ontario
Featured image courtesy of Canadian Press/Chris Young It’s “government-owned monopoly” versus “free market retail” as Ontario’s political parties...
Is the “Ontario Cannabis Store” name and logo really that bad?
Perhaps in response to strict cannabis marketing restrictions, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario has unveiled the name...
Licensed Producers & Legalization: Surging Numbers, Crony Capitalism, & Acquisitions
As of writing, there are 91 licensed producers in Canada with a backlog of over 400 applications, and...
March 1st marks “Lounges Day of Action” in fight for Ontario’s cannabis lounges
It was a day for lounging in Ontario’s cannabis lounges as Sensible Ontario declared March 1st the “Lounges...
New cannabis vape lounge, Natural Budz, opens in Pickering, Ont
The Durham region has got a brand new vapour lounge with Natural Budz opening in Pickering, Ontario. With a...
Ontario stalls on cannabis lounges as more open around the province
Even without definitive word on whether public consumption spaces for cannabis will even be allowed in Ontario, cannabis...