Charges have been filed in a scandal seemingly straight out of a TV show—hidden grow rooms, possible unlicensed shipping overseas, and 12,500 kg of illegally grown weed destroyed.
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“Lung Damaging Agent” Approved By Health Canada
CANNABIS CULTURE – Health Canada’s Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has added chloropicrin to the list of pesticides permitted to be used in outdoor cannabis farms. As a soil fumigant, it is cheaper and more effective than currently approv…
Canada to launch review of cannabis industry fee structure
Health Canada will soon embark on a review of fees collected by the federal government from cannabis companies, including studying the impact those fees have on the industry as well as the policy goals of legalization. “License holders will be engaged …
Moldy cannabis gummies, mislabeled pre-rolls recalled in Canada
Regulated Canadian cannabis products recalled in February include potentially moldy THC-infused edibles, plus two different instances of pre-rolled joints with incorrect cannabinoid labeling. The edibles recall involves one lot of strawberry-flavored T…
Sales of Canadian cannabis edibles, extracts fall for first time
Canadians purchased fewer cannabis edibles and extracts last November compared to the previous month, new Health Canada data shows, ending at least 11 consecutive months of growth for the categories. In November, roughly 1.52 million packages of edible…
Canada to take public comments on regulatory changes to cannabis research, vape flavors
Canada’s federal cannabis regulator, Health Canada, has announced an upcoming public comment period regarding cannabis regulations that could result in new restrictions on flavors used in cannabis vape products. The proposed amendments to Canada&…
Latest Canadian cannabis recalls include melting vape pens, moldy bud
Canadian cannabis products recalled in January include defective all-in-one vape pens from Hexo Corp. as well as moldy marijuana from Saskatchewan processor AgroGreens Natural Products and mislabeled bud from Manitoba’s Delta 9 Bio-Tech. HexoR…
Canada’s ‘croptober’ surge pushes cannabis inventory over 1 million kilograms
Canadian licensed producers added a record 220,461 kilograms of marijuana to their inventories in October 2020, according to new data offering a statistical glimpse of the country’s first large-scale “croptober” – when most of the fall outd…
How Trichome Financial acquired and restructured troubled marijuana producer JWC
A recent acquisition and restructuring deal using Canadian insolvency law demonstrates that even struggling, deeply indebted marijuana producers can be revitalized, an important development at a time when many Canadian cannabis companies are flounderin…
Canopy, Aphria cited for ‘critical’ cannabis regulatory breaches in 2018, new Health Canada report shows
Canadian cannabis giants Canopy Growth and Aphria were among a half-dozen licensed producers cited for serious regulatory violations in Health Canada’s compliance report covering the 2018-19 fiscal year. The federal cannabis regulator also disclosed th…