Quebec's Court of Appeal agreed with the Quebec Government's ban on home-grown cannabis. This reversed the previous Superior Court ruling in 2019 which said the Quebec Government's ban on home-grown cannabis was a violation of federal law.

"A provincial government that denies its citizens the right to grow their four federally legal cannabis plants is on a slippery slope to removing other personal freedoms," said Dr. Av Singh, one of TobaGrown's expert witnesses.

The outcome of Quebec's lawsuit will hold substantial weight in the similar case in Manitoba, where Jesse Lavoie started the "TobaGrown Movement" and filed a lawsuit against the Manitoba Government's ban on home-grown cannabis in August 2020.

Cannabis company Tilray Inc., which merged with Aphria Inc. earlier this year, says it will close a Nanaimo, B.C., office and facility. The company says in an email that it is closing the facilities to optimize operational efficiencies and save costs following the merger. The company did not share how many workers will be impacted by the closures, but says it will work with those interested in opportunities at its Broken Coast facility on Vancouver Island. Tilray says the closure will roll out in phases and is expected to be completed by next spring.

Tilray's website shows that the Nanaimo facility was home to a grow room, vault, trimming room, extracts lab and packaging operations.

It said the new store is 3,200 square feet and is located at 2081 Pembina Highway in the Southwest corner of Winnipeg, the focal point for over half a million square feet of retail businesses making it one of the city’s larger shopping destinations

Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp. (CSE: CANN) (OTCQX: HERTF) (“Heritage” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce that Opticann, the medical brand and subsidiary of Heritage, is launching its first suite of CB4 branded products and has launched Opticann.ca in Canada. Backed by evidence, the CB4 products enable Heritage to develop a broader medical market with CB4 branded products offered on multiple medical platforms in Canada. “We are excited to introduce our revolutionary CB4 suite of medical products to Canada that are backed by objective scientific data that speaks to their superior performance and come in convenient dosage forms familiar to most medical patients - oral, topical and sublingual.”

In the midst of a global labour shortage, employers around the world are doing away with drug tests in a desperate bid to attract more job applicants, fill more roles and retain more workers.

A survey, conducted by staffing firm ManpowerGroup and released this week, indicated that 9 percent of more than 45,000 employers worldwide were eliminating job screenings or drug tests as an incentive to “attract and retain in-demand talent.” That equates to some 4,050 employers, from 43 countries, who are willing to turn a blind eye to workers’ recreational drug use if it means filling vacant positions.

High Tide Inc. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (TSXV: HITI) (Nasdaq: HITI) (FSE: 2LYA), a retail-focused cannabis company enhanced by the manufacturing of proprietary and licensed consumption accessories, announced today that its Canna Cabana retail cannabis store located at 106 Silvercreek Parkway North in Guelph, Ontario, has begun selling recreational cannabis products for adult use. This opening represents High Tide's 95th branded retail location across Canada, and 24th in Ontario, selling recreational cannabis products and consumption accessories. The new Canna Cabana store is High Tide's second to open in Guelph, a fast-growing community in the heart of southern Ontario, and the first in the city which will operate under the Canna Cabana brand.

After the markets close Sept. 21, Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ:ACB) will release results for its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended June 30. The troubled Canadian pot company's stock is already down by about 20% year to date -- a sharp contrast to the sector benchmark Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, which is up 5% -- and the upcoming report could be pivotal in determining whether the share price gets out of the red for 2021. Investors aren't expecting to see Aurora turn a profit in the final quarter of its fiscal year, but there are other ways that the company can show it is making progress. Here are the three main areas you should keep a close eye on when the company reports next week.

 DELTA 9 CANNABIS INC. (TSX: DN) (OTCQX: DLTNF) ("Delta 9" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has completed its final services milestone under an agreement with Alberta based cultivation and processing partner, Element GP Inc. (“Element”). Element is an arm’s length third party in which the Company has no ownership control or interest.

Major marijuana producer Tilray has announced it will shut down operations in Nanaimo and focus cultivation in B.C. at its Broken Coast facility in Duncan.

Canada’s most populous province opened its first cannabis retail stores on April 1, 2019. Exactly 880 days later, Ontario’s 1,000th store, 6 of Spade, opened its doors in downtown Toronto.