GTEC Holdings Ltd. is a Canadian cannabis company with a focus on growing and marketing premium-quality craft cannabis. The company was incorporated in June 2017, with its head office based in Kelowna, British Columbia and various growing facilities throughout Alberta and Ontario. Though only a year into its existence, it has already accrued impressive partnerships and agreements, as it looks to assert itself as a leader in the cannabis industry.
In April of 2014, Business in Focus wrote about the marijuana dispensary, incredibles. This socially conscious entity started with the goal to make medical marijuana its primary market but has branched out into recreational use as well. We caught up with Founder and President Bob Eschino.
Evergreen Organix is the largest edible producer in the State of Nevada. Enlisting the expertise and savvy of top bakers, chefs, chocolatiers, scientists and cannabis experts, its products and its users end up baked with goodness.
Canadian engineering company Advanced Extraction Systems Inc. (AESI) designs and engineers modular industrial extraction systems for the cannabis and hemp industries. This Prince Edward Island-based firm was founded in 2015 and ships its automated cGMP certified supercritical extraction systems throughout Canada and expanding markets around the world.
The battle over recreational marijuana continues to make headlines across Canada and the United States, where Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana for adults twenty-one and over in 2012; since then, nine other states have followed suit. Every day, there are countless stories and opinion pieces in newspapers about the financial benefits of investing in marijuana, followed by articles about raids on illegal dispensaries. In anticipation of legalization, however, one story has been pushed to the back pages: the ongoing use of medical marijuana.
Zenabis is a Canadian privately-held licensed producer of medical and recreational cannabis that is positioned to be a global leader in cannabis production and distribution. The company specializes in the entire process of delivering cannabis to the market including growing, drying, packaging and distribution. With a track record providing Canadians with safe, high quality medical cannabis, Zenabis is actively engaged in patient education, physician counselling and raising awareness around cannabis and its derivatives.
A physical security breach can cost property and lose sensitive data, and the consequences can be severe. Veridin Systems Canada is a leader in providing custom security systems that help businesses meet industry regulations and mitigate risk.
Lawmakers in both in the United States and Canada have had a complicated relationship with marijuana for over a hundred years, ever since it was first entered into the United States Pharmacopeia in 1850. Nowadays, most U.S. states allow the use of medical marijuana, and a few have approved recreational use of the drug as well. In Canada, as of October 17th, recreational marijuana use will be permitted nationwide.
The primary message of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) is that the cannabis industry must take an active role in policy making and lobbying in order to change the laws that directly affect the industry. The necessary changes include specific factors such as ending the 280E tax code application that unfairly taxes cannabis businesses and allowing for safe access to banking as well as comprehensive cannabis policy reform such as removing marijuana from the schedule of controlled substances and implementing legislation that allows states to determine their own policies.