The founders are looking to bring marijuana to your pantry.

Despite its popularity with our neighbours down south, culinary cannabis isn’t something most Canadians are familiar with according to the founders of West Blvd Cannabis. They're aiming to change that with their multi-use interactive cannabis production space in the very-walkable Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood. Here, they will produce packaged goods for consumers under their own branding and collab with Canada’s top cannabis suppliers so they can shorten the supply chain—all through an educational lens.

Researchers have found the recent success of Canadian cannabis tourism has both normalized a formerly "deviant" leisure activity and opened the door to other potentially lucrative forms of cannabis-related tourism, such as complete growing, consuming and experiencing tours.

Small 5,000-square-foot production facility to be built northwest of Bentley. (Photo from Lacombe County)

A cannabis production facility has been approved in Lacombe County.

The county’s municipal planning commission unanimously approved an application by High Grade Farms Inc. to build and operate a 5,300-square-foot production facility on a 92-acre site about 20 km northwest of Bentley.

An existing homestead and workshop will be used as part of the operation and a new greenhouse for cannabis cultivation will be built, says the company’s application. About 67 acres not needed for cannabis production will be used to grow hemp.

High Grade Farms Inc. was previously approved for a 15,000-square-foot cannabis operation at the same location.

CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sugarbud Craft Growers Corp. (TSXV: SUGR, SUGR.DB, SUGR.WR, SUGR.WS, SUGR.WT) (OTCQB: SBUDF) ("Sugarbud" or the "Company") announces that it will be consolidating all of its issued and outstanding common shares (the “Common Shares”) on the basis of a ratio of one hundred pre-consolidation Common Shares for one post-consolidation Common Share (the “Share Consolidation”) effective Friday, February 18, 2022. Following the Share Consolidation, the Company will have a total of 5,699,796 common shares in issue (the “Consolidated Shares”). The Share Consolidation will not change current value or the % ownership each Shareholder has in the Company.

Cann has landed a $27 million Series A venture financing, as the cannabis beverage company looks to grow its distribution to more U.S. states in 2022, the company said Tuesday.

Venture capital firm Imaginary Ventures led the Series A round, with cannabis company Green Thumb Industries GTII, -1.12% GTBIF, -1.14% as an investor.

TORONTO, Feb. 15, 2022 /CNW/ - The White Ash Group Inc. ("White Ash Group" or the "Group") is pleased to announce the initiation of a recruitment partnership with Hifyre™ Inc. ("Hifyre"), the Digital Retail and Analytics Platform of Fire & Flower Holdings Corp. ("Fire & Flower"). The agreement extends through April 2022 during a planned period of rapid growth for Hifyre's development team.

WINNIPEG, Canada – The Joint, one of Canada’s leading tobacconists and sellers of vapes, cannabis, and specialty glass products, is delighted to announce the opening of their latest store, which is located on Kenaston in Winnipeg. The store, at 1650 Kenaston Blvd, is in a prime location with easy access and lots of parking. As with all of their stores, the new shop will stock the full range of products that the company sells, including Cannabis products, CBD, Tobacco, and Glassware.

Some expect to see a decline in the number of pot stores in 2022 as market saturation takes hold.

You can sit down in a green velvet love seat for a consultation with Courtney Fonseca.

As the fourteenth cannabis retailer to open in the City of Waterloo in less than two years, the new Hyerlove Cannabis shop at 1 King St. N is branding itself as a wellness collective with “lovetenders,” not budtenders, who aim to be more inviting in a market where differentiation can be difficult.

“I think anyone that’s in this industry would agree that Ontario didn’t necessarily roll it out in the right way,” said Fonseca.

“Drug drivers more likely to be single, young males who often drive after using cannabis and who score high on sensation-seeking and impulsivity scales.”

An Australian systematic review of 219 publications found that peer influence is the most important social factor that would either induce or inhibit drug driving.

Researchers considered related information found on six different databases from Jan. 1, 2005 to July 31, 2021.