Aurora Cannabis Inc. has signed a deal to acquire Mexican company Farmacias Magistrales. The deal to buy the pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor follows an agreement last week that saw Aurora partner with the company. READ MORE: Partnership to see Aurora Cannabis supply medical pot to Mexico It says Farmacias recently became Mexico’s first federally licensed importer […]
The Edmonton International Airport is bracing for the holiday travel season, as it prepares for 25,000 people to pass through its doors on the busiest day of the year – Friday, Dec. 21. Approximately 50,000 additional people are expected to drop off or pick up travellers, so the airport is reminding people to plan ahead […]
One surprise, as Canadians checked out brand new cannabis websites on Oct. 17, was a new and bewildering terminology. Newfoundland shoppers were confronted with a drop-down menu offering a choice of 36 different “terpenes”: ‘Trans-Ocimene,’ ‘Linalool,’ ‘Isopulegol.’ Terpenes, the site explained, “are aromatic oils that colour cannabis varieties with distinctive flavors like citrus, berry, mint, […]
In a 2012 photograph snapped by Reuters’ Jaime Saldarriaga in the city of Cali, two Colombian police officers can be seen loading a package of confiscated cannabis onto a truck. The package is clearly heavy, from way the policemen strain, and behind them are dozens more bundles, lined up and ready to be hauled away. […]
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 […]