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- Cannabis Daily News
Brighter Days Ahead?
Last week was a big one for the Canadian cannabis industry – and many companies, brands and people were together at MJBizCon to discuss it all. Ontario’s new retail cannabis guidelines are out – and things seem to be moving quickly after a year of being stuck firmly in the mud.
- CBD Market
Clouds + (some) Silver Linings
This week, we look to both the clouds and the silver linings.
- Medical
Cannabis Black Friday (or not)
You know the roll-out of cannabis isn’t going smoothly when one level of government (the Province of Ontario/the Ontario Cannabis Store) has to pull one of its promotions for a Black Friday cannabis sale because another level of government (Health Canada) has a problem.
- Adult-Use
Goodbye Ontario Lottery
From the Provinces… The news that drove the Canadian cannabis conversation this week was the hope for revisions of the retail framework in Ontario.
- Adult-Use
Gut Punches Continue
The Great Canadian Cannabis Gut Punch continued this week… HEXO announced their acquisition of UP Cannabis came with an unwelcomed liability: unlicensed grow rooms in Niagara Falls. Canopy’s earnings were (ahem…) not great… Aurora is halting construction on some major, planned facilities amid some shaky earnings.
- Adult-Use
Finding the Silver Lining
First, the tough news… The news generally has not been good on the Canadian cannabis landscape recently (CannTrust, Ontario retail, HEXO earnings) – Leaf Forward’s Alex Blumenstein shared some thoughts about the sector’s path forward in the Globe + Mail.
- Cannabis Daily News
Cuts Edition
We’ll start where the news is more or less positive – cannabis retail: While Ontario has been slow in getting cannabis retail off the ground, they did do one thing right (albeit late) – 26 First Nations cannabis stores will be licensed by the Province.
- Adult-Use
Welcome to Year 2
It was a big week of celebration and industry self-reflection in the Canadian cannabis sector last week.
- CBD Market
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times…
It was the best of times… This week marks the one year anniversary of adult use recreational cannabis legalization in Canada.
- Cannabis Daily News
Bell Ring Edition
On Friday, Business of Cannabis presented our inaugural Cannabis + Technology event.
- CBD Market
It’s Gonna Sell Out
A big week for the Business of Cannabis team as we head into Cannabis + Technology this Friday.
- CBD Market
Two Weeks Out
2 Weeks Out We are less than 2 weeks away from Cannabis + Technology presented by Business of Cannabis on September 27 in Toronto.
