“In high school, my nickname was Miss Bakes. I guess it’s true what they say; old habits die hard,” says Katie Lake, who is currently working as a budtender at Shop Cori, a cannabis store located in Toronto.

For nearly a decade in the early 2000s, Flin Flon, Manitoba, was home to Canada’s “marijuana mine.”

Saskatchewan company Prairie Plant Systems held an exclusive contract to produce cannabis deep within an unused section of the Trout Lake Mine, a location reportedly selected as a grow site for its security.

Andrew Adams, the former director of Health Canada’s drug analysis service, oversaw the testing for the cannabis that was grown in the mine shaft.

Beyond the cannabinoid content, the government tested for metals, fungal toxins, microbial and chemical contaminants, and other foreign matter. According to Adams, the data was freely accessible and posted on a Health Canada website.

Canadian Rockies Hemp Corporation (CRHC) has plans to make the small town of Bruderheim, Alta. into a very big thing when it comes to industrial hemp processing.

With a population of 1,308 in 2016 — having soared to that level from 1,155 just five years earlier — Bruderheim is the home of CRHC, an agribusiness focused on processing hemp at scale for industrial use outputs.

Thirty-three lots of two flavours of Haven Street THC-infused gummies have been recalled by TerrAscend Canada after the gummies, suspected of being contaminated with mould, prompted almost a dozen complaints.

The recall applies to all lots of Haven St. Rise No.570 Wild Berry THC Infused Gummy and Haven St. Drift No. 470 Sour Watermelon THC Infused Gummy, notes the recall notice from the federal government.

The products were available at authorized retailers in Ontario, B.C., Alberta, PEI, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador, with 330,927 units being sold between September 2020 and January 2021.

It took five years for brothers-in-law Adam Miron and Sébastien St-Louis to launch Ottawa-based cannabis company, Hexo Corp. Titled Billion Dollar Start-Up, the following is an excerpt from their entrepreneurial journey.

The Facebook post was made with the best of intentions. But it nearly blew up in Adam’s (Miron, co-founder) face.