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When Abi Roach thinks about the 20 years she spent fighting for Canada to legalize cannabis, she says pot legislation is like a clenched fist. The analogy, which Roach first heard from a former Toronto councillor, represents the tight grip on the cannabis market that legislators held for centuries. It …
Read More »Canopy Growth is selling its old chocolate factory pot facility to Hershey
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The town of Smiths Falls, Ont., is having a full-circle moment as pot producer Canopy Growth announced Thursday it would sell its primary cannabis cultivation facility — once a factory for Hershey Canada — back to the prodigal chocolatier. The move will see …
Read More »Canadian cannabis industry struggling amid oversupply challenges: Experts – Winnipeg
More than four years later, Canada’s cannabis industry is starting to come down from a post-legalization high, experts say. “Producers have been scaling back, laying people off, closing facilities for really over three years,” said Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. …
Read More »Delta 9 announces layoffs, closure of Winnipeg medical clinic – Winnipeg
Delta 9 Cannabis is laying off staff at its Winnipeg-based production facilities and closing its Osborne Village medical clinic as part of cost-cutting measures announced Monday. The company said the layoffs will affect roughly 40 per cent of production staff — 40 employees — in Winnipeg. Read more: Canada on …
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