Todd Veri envisions a network of 12 or more farms working together to grow marijuana outdoors.

An organic farmer in Nelson is hoping to create a marijuana farm co-op.

Organic farmer Todd Veri was inspired by the federal marijuana task force's report which said there will be a space for small to medium operations and organic product.

"I was expecting that we were going to get boxed out here in the Kootenays and then it was going to be all large agro-companies traded on the TSX and that such," he said.

Cannabis has been identified as a potential substitute for users of legal or illicit opioids, but a new Vancouver-based study shows the drug may also help reduce people’s cravings for another highly addictive substance: crack cocaine.

Scientists at the BC Centre on Substance Use tracked 122 people who consumed crack in and around Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside over a three-year period and found they reported using that drug less frequently when they opted to also consume cannabis.

Ample Organics Inc., the most widely adopted enterprise seed-to-sale cannabis platform in Canada and Braingrid Corporation, a provider of affordable, scalable, and rapidly deployable sensor platforms for precision agriculture, today announced a strategic partnership to enhance Ample Organics’ customer offering. This solution will combine Braingrid’s wireless sensing and data collection expertise with Ample Organics’ enterprise software platform to create an unprecedented offering for medical cannabis growers.

Surna, Inc., a manufacturer of a proprietary line of optimized lighting, environmental control and air sanitation systems for state-regulated cannabis cultivation facilities as well as traditional indoor agricultural facilities ("Surna" or the "Company") (OTCQB: SRNA), announced today operating and financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2017.  The Company will not be hosting a conference call following the release of its financial results.

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With a libertarian possibly on the verge of winning the Conservative Party of Canada leadership, the interim boss appears ready to pull the plug on federal politics.

Various news outlets are reporting that Rona Ambrose will announce tomorrow (May 16) that she's resigning her seat in the House of Commons.

She was selected by the caucus to lead the party on a temporary basis in the wake of Stephen Harper's resignation in 2015.

During her tenure as health minister in the Harper government, Ambrose was a staunch opponent of storefront marijuana dispensaries, repeatedly calling for Vancouver police crackdowns.

Does the controversy over a $13,000 space-age water pipe signal the takeover of stoner culture by big-money hipster trendsetters?

What happens when you put an ex-Google employee, a hot Toronto design firm, substantial resources and some weed in a room together? A bong made of space-age steel that costs $13,000.

The Io Water Pipe is a collaboration between Tokyo Smoke, a high-end “lifestyle brand that brings sophistication and design to the cannabis space,” and Partisans, an award-winning Toronto-based design firm. The two companies’ cannabis-related line  – ranging from the porcelain Crater Pipe ($135) to the $13,000 stainless steel bong – “demonstrates how cannabis products can combine art and functionality.”

Groupe DJB and Neptune Technologies & Bioressources (NASDAQ:NEPT)(TSX:NEPT), in collaboration with the Université de Sherbrooke, are proud to announce the creation of the Sherbrooke-based Green Valley Consortium, a strategic partnership that combines the strengths and expertise of three industry stakeholders to carry out medical cannabis production and research and development activities: an industry first. 

Sherbrooke Innopole, the region's economic development agency, and the city of Sherbrooke have both been highly active in the establishment of the Green Valley consortium, consistent with their mandate to foster a vibrant economic and academic environment in the region.

“First-mover advantage.” Why Canadian weed producers will dominate the global marijuana market.

In marketing strategy, there’s a term called “first-mover advantage”. It’s when a few key players in a particular industry gain an advantage because they entered into the marketplace first. These companies are able to establish strong brand recognition, shore up the best sources of funding, and build a loyal customer base simply because there aren’t any competitors in the way during their first few years of operation.