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 […]

Editors’ Note: Because reporting on cannabis is risky in Turkey, the writer of this piece asked to use initials rather than a full name for the byline. Most of the sources also requested anonymity out of fear that they could be prosecuted for their public views on cannabis. It has always intrigued me that the […]