Despite the fact that both Michigan and Canada have legalized recreational marijuana, officials are reporting a sharp rise in illegally transported reefer this year.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they've seized more than 9,000 pounds of of the stuff this fiscal year, an increase of 1,726% from last year. And that doesn't even include 1 ton of chronic that was seized on Monday.

Cannabis is legal to buy in Ontario, but there still is an illegal element that exists.

Provincial Police say they seized over $143 million in pot from 52 large-scale illegal operations around the province this summer.

More than 122,000 cannabis plants were seized, with 7,000 coming from one site alone.

Detective Inspector Jim Walker says some were found in rural parts, including agricultural land, former farms or greenhouse facilities.

Walker adds some of these operations are used to fund other illegal activity such as the production of harder illegal drugs and human trafficking.

He notes says those buying the illegal variety may be getting more than what they bargain for.

It’s hard not to be encouraged by cannabis retail revenue in Ontario — with the country’s most populous province cementing its lead position — and the pace of growth likely continuing for a couple more years before reaching store saturation.

The sleeping giant that is Ontario cannabis retail seems to be waking, with the province registering the highest revenue of any jurisdiction in the country for the third month running.

Ontario-based Mary Agrotechnologies is heading overseas.

The company has secured a licence to grow, extract and process hemp-derived CBD in the world’s most populous nation, reports Yahoo Finance.

It’s been a good and very busy summer and fall for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), which seized more than $143 million worth of illegal cannabis since the start of July.

One of the more puzzling decisions made by the Canadian cannabis industry has been the choice to abandon legacy strain names in favour of new commercial names with zero meaning or resonance to consumers. This had led to some consumers compiling their own databases to try and keep track of cannabis lineage.

But according to Peter Shearer, senior category manager at the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), producers have noticed and change is on the way.

According to recently released financial statements, the Ontario Cannabis Store (O

As Canadians start harvesting their homegrown cannabis, police are seeing a spike in reports of sticky-fingered bandits.

That was the case recently for London’s Mike Nutt, whose backyard camera captured a thief hopping the fence, hacking down his plants, and then absconding, all in less than a minute.

“He’s lucky I didn’t catch him,” Nutt told CTV London.

An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) raid this week in Norfolk County revealed a massive, indoor cannabis grow-op with plants estimated to be worth just shy of $800,000.

Coupled with other police services in the area, the raid of what looked to be a warehouse-type structure resulted in seizing about $796,000 in cannabis plants and $20,400 in processed marijuana.

Although the development of cannabis retail in Ontario has been less than ideal, the chapter of bottlenecks appears to be behind us following the announcement to double the speed at which the province will process new retail store authorizations.