The week in weed – May 13, 2023
Highlights from the cannabis industry for the May 13 issue of week in weed.
The Week in Weed – May 6, 2023
Another busy week for industry weed news here at StratCann and across Canada. Here’s your recap for the week ending May 6, 2023.
The Week in Weed – April 29, 2023
It was another busy week in weed news here at StratCann and across Canada. Here’s your recap for the week ending April 29.
The Week in Weed – April 22, 2023
As you waded through press releases and promotional sales this week of 4/20, it was easy to miss some of the actual news happening this…
The Week in Weed – April 15, 2023
A roundup of cannabis news from Canada and around the world for the second week of April 2023.
Week in Weed – April 8 , 2023
A roundup of cannabis news from Canada and around the world for the first week of April.
The Week in Weed – April 1, 2023
The federal government’s Budget 2023, Shoppers’ withdrawal from the medical cannabis market, and other news for the week ending March 31.
The Week in Weed – March 25, 2023
A recap of cannabis industry news for this week in weed, ending March 25.
Week in Weed – March 18
The clocks have changed, the other green holiday is in the rearview mirror (or maybe you’re still feeling a bit of it today), and the…
The Week in Weed – March 11, 2023
A round up of Canadian and international cannabis industry news for the week of March 11, 2023. Here’s your week in weed.
How the THC obsession is killing classic cultivars
As THC levels have been pushed higher since legalization, consumers have kept pace. Ask just about any retailer and they’ll tell you that one of…
The Week in Weed – March 4, 2023
A round up of Canadian and international cannabis industry news for the week of March 4, 2023. Here’s your week in weed.
Full spectrum vs distillate. What’s better and who decides?
Consumers shopping for vape products in the Canadian cannabis market are now faced with a somewhat dizzying array of terminology, with more and more products…
The Week in Weed – Feb 25, 2023
A round up of Canadian cannabis industry news for the week of February 18, 2023. Here’s your week in weed.
The Week in Weed – Feb 18, 2023
A recap of news making the headlines this week in weed, February 18, 2023.
The Week in Weed – Feb 11, 2023
This week in weed is a round-up of cannabis industry news for the week of February 6, 2023.
The Week in Weed – Feb 4, 2023
Greetings from us at Stratcann, where this week you will have found stories on the Competition Bureau’s call for the government to drop the much-disliked…
Can regulators reign in THC inflation without driving consumers to the illicit market?
A pair of papers in the most recent issue of the journal Addiction consider the question of elevated THC levels, and what—if any—policy responses might…
The Week in Weed – January 28, 2023
A round-up of industry news and stories from the past week, including the future of consumption lounges, what’s happening with extracts, and a whole lot…
Is there a future for cannabis consumption lounges?
After much consultation and a lot of waiting, BC released its What We Heard consultation report on the possibility of cannabis consumption lounges, with somewhat…
The Week in Weed – January 21, 2023
It was a relatively quiet week in cannabis this week, and here at Stratcann we covered changes at the CRA that will make intra-provincial B2B…
The Week in Weed – January 14, 2023
The cannabis industry was busy with a holy trinity of news cycles: delayed reports (in the form of the B.C. consumption spaces consultation), layoffs (at…
The Week in Weed – January 7, 2023
The new year is here, resolutions are being made (and maybe broken, already) and the cannabis industry is starting to wake up from its own…
The year in provincial pot politics
Federal cannabis politics and regulations are often what makes for good headlines, but it’s at the provincial level where the real meat of the Canadian…
The Week in Weed – December 17, 2022
We’re approaching the end of the season, and things are buzzing right along in the cannabis world. December is traditionally a good month for pot…
The Week in Weed – December 10, 2022
Along with Saskatchewan’s establishment of a First Nations cannabis framework, sales growth in edibles in BC, and the pros and cons of irradiation, Stratcann readers…
The pros and cons of cannabis irradiation
One of the often misunderstood aspects of legal cannabis production is the quality assurance measures many licensed producers take post-harvest to ensure that their product…
The Week in Weed – December 3, 2022
This week on Stratcann, we covered the big goings-on of Canadian cannabis—the much-awaited opening of farmgate applications in BC, the move by Manitoba regulators to…
The Week in Weed – November 26, 2022
While the big ticket item to get people talking in Canadian cannabis is likely the announcement of the legislative review panel members, that’s far from…
Constitutional challenge brews following Indigenous dispensary raids in Nova Scotia
A Mi’kmaw band councillor from Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia, is mounting a constitutional defence arguing that his right to sell cannabis on First…