Newstrike Brands, the parent company of the Up Cannabis brand, began selling adult-use recreational cannabis on October 17 in Canada. For almost two years, it has been producing medical-grade cannabis at its two Ontario sites in Brantford and the Niagara region.
Starseed has been a Health Canada licensed producer (LP) of medical cannabis since April 2017. The company was founded in 2013 by a group of strong advocates for medical cannabis use and is striving to see changes made with respect to insurance providers so that medical cannabis becomes part of available benefit packages.
Cannabis is fast becoming accepted as holistic medicine. People are excited about the scientifically-proven benefits – but exactly what they’re getting from a product and how they’re going to react to it is still something of a mystery. That’s why accurate micro-dosing and patient education has put Mary’s Medicinals out in front.
On April 13, 2017, the Cannabis Act, Bill C-45, was introduced in Canada. Ontario took the lead on province-wide consultations and six months later on October 17, 2018, the act came into effect, legalizing and regulating cannabis use for adults in Canada for recreational purposes and opening up a new and exciting market to watch.
As Canada begins the process of adapting to the nationwide legalization of cannabis, workplace impairment and drug testing have become central to the conversation. While the Cannabis Act strictly governs who can acquire cannabis and in what quantities, how it can be produced, how it can be advertised, and much more, workplace use falls under the purview of existing legislation, and some of the relevant law remains unsettled on what is and what is not permitted.
Ceres Greenhouse Solutions is a greenhouse design company unlike any of the others that are simply steel manufacturers. Rather, Ceres has a business model that focuses on changing the traditional greenhouse design that has been used as the standard for over a century in the greenhouse industry.