Last week, South Korea voted to legalize medicinal cannabis within its borders, making it the first country in East Asia to allow cannabis-based drugs and marking shifting domestic attitudes toward the plant. It’s an incremental but significant change, and in a nation with a traditionally hard-line attitude toward cannabis, it arrives along with a degree […]

Three different ways to reduce the proposed 3.3 per cent property tax increase for 2019 emerged on Monday as Edmonton City Council began debate on its first-ever four-year operating and capital budgets. The biggest proposal that was talked about, was taking $7.6 million out of the budget in each of the next four years that […]

A committee at Calgary City Hall is recommending that rules on separation distances between cannabis retail stores be put in place on a stretch of 8 Avenue from Macleod Trail to 9 Street S.W. The majority of that area is identified as Stephen Avenue Mall, a main corridor and pedestrian thoroughfare. The city has separation […]

Utah lawmakers on Monday are poised to adopt a controversial bill to legalize medical cannabis use, quickly replacing a ballot initiative that passed with 53% voter support in November. Proposition 2 took effect on Saturday, two days before the scheduled vote on the Utah Medical Cannabis Act, a 187-page proposal drafted in secret by a […]

A month and a half into the legalization of recreational marijuana and the country’s cannabis shortage continues. Nonetheless, it’s been high times for a few more stores in Saskatchewan that opened their doors this week to consumers. On Thursday, there was still line-ups out the door at The Pot Shack with folks eager to legally […]