US border officials can and do ask Canadians if they have ever used marijuana.

Creston Town Council has received a heads-up about some important border implications for Canadians who have used marijuana or will use it when it becomes legal.

The Honourable Mobina Jaffer, a British Columbia representative in the Canadian Senate, has written to government leaders around the province, warning of potential dangers for her constituents.

“…our constituents will soon be faced with a series of issues at Canada’s border with the United States that could have them barred from crossing the border for life,” Jaffer wrote.

Cannabis-infused adventure duo Mat Leblanc and Ali Becker are biking across Canada to cultivate social awareness and spread good vibes.

How do you plan on celebrating cannabis legalization? While some might prefer to smoke a nice quad in the comfort of their homes with a couple of friends, Mat Leblanc and Ali Becker are taking the party across Canada.

Mat and Ali are the cannabis-infused couple from Nelson, B.C. behind The Good Vibes Tour, an upcoming cross-country cycle tour created out of a love for both bike touring and cannabis. Their intention is to cultivate positive social awareness, celebrate legal weed, and most importantly, spread good vibes.

Canada is about to enter a new gold rush with many dreaming of striking it rich in the marijuana industry, says former British Columbia premier Mike Harcourt, who has staked his own claim in a medicinal marijuana company.

But Harcourt said Friday there will be plenty of losers during the rush as qualified and unqualified entrepreneurs search for marijuana wealth. 

Harcourt, 75, invoked the images of past gold-fever eras during a keynote address about marijuana therapy at the annual B.C. Pharmacy Association gathering in Victoria. He mentioned the once thriving B.C. gold-boom town of Barkerville and the Klondike gold rush that sent thousands of people to Yukon during the 1890s.

Chelsea Handler will join cannabis industry leaders in business, research, politics and culture from around the world for the 2018 World Cannabis Congress in Saint John, New Brunswick next month.

Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host and producer. She hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! network, released a Netflix documentary series, Chelsea Does, and hosted the talk show, Chelsea, on Netflix. In 2018, Handler announced plans to launch a cannabis brand.

Like many Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tried marijuana. He even smoked a doobie after becoming an MP. When he made that admission five years ago, he set tongues wagging. But his revelation was hardly scandalous. It actually made him relatable. For once, he came across as just another working stiff trying to unwind at home.

“We had a few good friends over for a dinner party, our kids were at their grandmother’s for the night, and one of our friends lit a joint and passed it around. I had a puff,” Trudeau told The Huffington Post Canada in 2013. He went on to explain that he’d smoked dope a handful of times, but it’s never really been his thing.

Paul Newman says mainland corporations will benefit over locals in N.L.'s cannabis industry.

One disgruntled businessman in Clarenville is upset his application to be a licensed cannabis retailer was denied — and says the province is handing a lucrative industry to mainland corporations. 

"Basically Newfoundlanders got screwed here. This went, all this billion-dollar industry is going to go outside of Newfoundland now," says Newfoundland Puffin Co. owner Paul Newman.

"And it should have been kept here in the province."

Newman said he opened his head shop in April in hopes of becoming a licensed legal cannabis retailer when recreational marijuana is legalized in Canada this summer.

With the legalization of recreational cannabis looming on the horizon, the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA), joined by the Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires (AQPP), appeared today before the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology to discuss Bill C-45. Pharmacists are asking the Senate to include more support for patients who use medical cannabis by ensuring that there is a clear differentiation between the recreational and medical cannabis streams, with incentives for patients to remain in the medical cannabis stream.

A year and a half ago, the Trudeau government rolled back the amount of medical marijuana that it would cover for veterans from 10 grams a day to three.

But that cut may not have been deep enough for at least one member of the Senate sub-committee on Veterans Affairs.

Sen. David Adams Richards said he questioned the maximum daily amount of medical cannabis allotted to vets suffering from conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder. His concern comes on the heels of testimony by James MacKillop, the director of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medical Cannabis Research at McMaster University.

Cannabis is now being pedalled in Vancouver.

But don’t expect to see cyclists wearing brightly coloured green uniforms or backpacks to identify themselves. Because of security concerns, the cyclists who deliver cannabis for Spruce Delivery on bicycles deliberately don’t stand out.

If you order from Spruce Delivery, you’ll get someone who resembles a regular bike courier.

Spruce started delivering pot to people two and a half weeks ago, said Frank Le, one of four owners of the new company.

Less than a month away from the federal government vote on the cannabis bill, it’s looking like the legalization of cannabis across Canada will be delayed—although that isn’t being confirmed by Prime Minister Trudeau.

Facing recommendations from three of the Senate committees that changes be made to Bill C-45 before its roll out this summer, such as limits being placed upon the quantity of marijuana that can be kept in homes as well as reserving 20% of production licenses for producers on Indigenous land, Trudeau has only said that “the current system hurts Canadians,” and “Legalization is not an event, it’s a process…and that process will continue.”