A day that's come to symbolize protesting prohibition has taken a joyful turn this year

Today is 420 — a day that cannabis activists associate with the aroma of protest and lighting up in defiance of the law, but on this last April 20 before prohibition is lifted in Canada, many say it's a day to celebrate.

"We're the first G20 country to have a legal recreational cannabis market. It's a moment for Canada to be proud of what's to come," says Josh Lyon, vice-president of marketing at Hiku Brands, which not only owns licensed cannabis producers, but the Tokyo Smoke chain of cannabis lifestyle stores.

About 100,000 tiny pot plants that took root in Ontario are headed for a massive grow-op in Delta

The smell of marijuana wafting through the airplane on the YVR airport tarmac on Thursday wasn't overpowering, but it left no doubt as to what the huge white boxes filling the plane contained.

Cannabis giant Canopy Growth shipped more than 100,000 tiny pot plants, or clones, from a nursery facility in Ontario to its new greenhouse in Delta, B.C.

When marijuana legalization is enacted across Canada, it will create arguably the biggest legal cannabis economy in the world.

That change is the genesis of a conference entitled Legalizing Marijuana in Canada: Policy Challenges being held April 26 and 27, by the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP), at the Moot Court in the McGill Faculty of Law. Tickets are $25 for students and $100 for members of the general public.

Daniel Weinstock, the head of the IHSP and the lead organizer of the conference, says legalization raises a wide range of thorny policy issues.

Most marijuana stocks are down to start 2018 — ironically, the year expected to make recreational pot legal across Canada. Contrary to the “euphoria” that had taken over cannabis investors towards the end of 2017, it seems that there have been a couple of hiccups along the way and still a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out. Legalization date has been pushed back Throughout the current journey towards the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been guiding the public towards an effective date of July 1, which also happens to…

Most marijuana stocks are down to start 2018 — ironically, the year expected to make recreational pot legal across Canada.

INDIVA Acquires Approximately 5% of Bhang Corporation.

INDIVA Limited (the "Company" or "INDIVA") (TSX-V:NDVA) is pleased to announce a 50/50 joint venture with, and a USD $1 million investment into, Bhang Corporation ("Bhang"), an award-winning licensor of cannabis and CBD edibles and concentrates. The joint venture (the "JV"), which is managed by INDIVA, has exclusive rights to manufacture and sell Bhang products in Canada and the right to export those products internationally.

Cost estimates were based on data from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Ontario consumers may be paying $10 a gram for marijuana when it becomes legal later this year, but Waterloo Regional Police say new legislation will cost them much more. 

Based on Federation of Canadian Municipality estimates, the service expects to pay anywhere between $2.63 million and $3.79 million when marijuana becomes legal.

"We were looking at resource hours to train all the new officers in the legislation, resource hours to train in the new roadside device when it's approved, the impact on investigations related to  illegal dispensaries," Larkin told CBC News.

An Ottawa-based cannabis company has decided to take over a major California producer.

CannaRoyalty announced that it's buying FloraCal Farms in a cash and share swap.

FloraCal has a 15,000-square-foot facility in Sonoma County that produces plants in small batches. It claims that it generates an average selling price of more than US$17 per gram.

According to a joint news release, FloraCal is a sustainable producer relying 100 percent on renewable energy to produce seven cannabis flowers, rosin, and packaged pre-rolls.

The company has declared that it can achieve 28 percent to 32 percent THC content in its plants.

It generated US$6.4 million in revenue in the last fiscal year.

Canopy Growth Corporation’s President, Mark Zekulin along with President of Niagara College Canada, Dan Patterson, announced Tuesday their new partnership to provide experiential learning opportunities to students and graduates interested in pursuing careers in Canada’s flourishing legal cannabis industry.

The announcement took place at Canopy Growth’s Tweed Farms facility, located in the heart of South Western Ontario’s Wine Country, Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL), a less than ten minute drive from the college campus.

Aurora Cannabis Inc., CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. and CTT Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc., announced today that further to the CanniMed/CTT news release of February 17, 2017, the companies have entered into a three-way agreement that provides Aurora, through its ownership of CanniMed, with joint exclusivity on the distribution in Canada of CTT's novel, patented drug delivery technologies.

This collaboration includes the licensing by CTT to CanniMed and Aurora of six patents related to cannabinoid delivery for pain management that will enable CanniMed and Aurora to exclusively develop and commercialize this unique, sub-lingual (beneath the tongue) wafer, drug delivery system in Canada.

Aphria Inc. ("Aphria" or the "Company") (TSX:APH)(OTCQB:APHQF), through its subsidiary Pure Natures Wellness Inc. (o/a Aphria), is pleased to announce that it entered into a major wholesale supply agreement with HydRx Farms, Ltd.