New uses mean a new spectrum of genetic traits for hemp breeders to tailor to.

Canada has taken on a leading role in hemp production since the crop was legalized in 1998.

Initially it was grain and products like hemp hearts and then nutraceuticals like cannabidiol.

But now Canada is staking out a new leadership area in the hemp sector: genetics.

Cannabis does not need to have a large carbon footprint, but it does, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

Weed really does grow “like a weed” in some parts of the country. As states legalize medical and recreational marijuana, however, most natural growing has been tossed aside and replaced with energy-laden practices.

Some farming techniques use shocking amounts of electricity and natural resources while simultaneously pumping harmful toxins into the environment. If left unchecked, these growing methods may have lasting effects on the environment and global climate.

Canopy Growth Corp. is shutting down one of the biggest cannabis greenhouses in Canada as the pot giant looks to cut costs amid its ongoing pursuit of profitability. 

A Canopy spokesperson confirmed that the company is shutting down its Tweed Farms greenhouse located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. on Friday, a one million-square-foot facility. As a result of the closure, 30 staff will be laid off, a company spokesperson added. 

Representatives from Farmer Jane Cannabis Co. and Wiid Boutique spoke at Wednesday's meeting, both in favour of keeping the 182.88 metre distance between schools and cannabis shops.

A Regina zoning bylaw that requires cannabis stores to operate at least nearly 183 metres away from a school is anticipated to remain in place after a planning commission meeting on Wednesday.

The Valens Company (TSX:VLNS, OTCQX:VLNCF) President Jeff Fallows joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has signed a deal with Société québécoise du cannabis. Fallows telling this deal will now see Valens products distributed into Québec.

Fallows shared that this move for Valens is huge entering the third-largest cannabis market in Canada, representing approximately 15% of Canadian cannabis retail sales. Fallows also shared with Proactive the company’s 3rd quarter financial numbers that included 32.7 % rise in gross revenue and provincial listings increased by 37.1% to 181 at the end of September. Fallows also shared with Proactive, the company has signed a manufacturing agreement with Aurora Cannabis.

EDMONTON, AB, Oct. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. (the "Company" or "Aurora") (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian company defining the future of cannabinoids worldwide, today announced a manufacturing agreement with The Valens Company Inc. ("The Valens Company" or "Valens") a leading manufacturer of cannabis products, to manufacture a new seasonal offering in the mint category.

If you're looking for legal weed in Ottawa's Glebe neighbourhood, you don't have far to travel.

There's the Prohibition era-themed High Ties at the corner of Bank Street and Second Avenue, one of the company's seven Ottawa-area dispensaries.

Locally owned The Good Cannabis Company occupies the former Mrs. Tiggy Winkle's toy store between Third and Fourth avenues.

You'll find Superette's second Ottawa location near the busy corner of Bank Street and Fifth Avenue.

A mere 130 metres to the south, Plateau's tiny storefront stares across Bank Street at the much larger One Plant dispensary, due to open soon on the ground floor of a new seniors' complex.

Experts, shop owners, police say the influx of cannabis shops in Windsor is helping weaken the black market.

Windsor is seeing a steady rise in the number of cannabis stores opening up in the city — with sometimes two, three or four stores located within a couple hundred metres of each other.

The first legal weed shop, J Supply Co., opened in Windsor about 18 months ago. Since then, the number has ballooned to thirty — with more eleven more awaiting approval.

J Supply general manager Haley Colenutt said they have to rely on branding to set themselves apart from competitors.

"There is a lot of saturation in the market. We've seen it. Lots of people are still expanding, building more and more stores.

Razor-thin profit margins, supply chain hoarding and licensing fees are pricing legal retailers out of the market.

Three years after legalization, the reality of Ontario’s cannabis industry for retailers is far darker than our wildest imagination.

Ontarians rejoiced at the prospect of being able to enter the market in its infancy when the Ford government announced plans to allow privatized retail sales of cannabis. What nobody realized was how corrupted the industry would turn out to be.