Tag: Canada

Colombia Is Looking to Join Canada As a Global Cannabis Industry Leader

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 11, 2019. Posted in Business, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

Canada has led the global cannabis industry ever since it first legalized medical cannabis. For awhile, the Netherlands was the only other nation that allowed medical cannabis exports, but Canadian...

Canada Has Seen a 40% Increase in Cannabis Consumption

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 3, 2019. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Vancouver.

Canada has clearly been a global cannabis industry leader since it first legalized medical use in 2001 a trend that has only grown as the country became the first G7 nation to regulate cannabis commerce...

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Canadian Cannabis Infused Edibles and Products to Be a $2.7 Billion Market

Written by Anthony Johnson on June 4, 2019. Posted in Business, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

Like a lot of places that have legalized regulated cannabis commerce, Canada has experienced some growing pains. The transition from a medical market into an adult-use one has difficult for small businesses...

Cannabis Shortage Forces Quebec Stores to Close 3 Days a Week

Written by Anthony Johnson on October 26, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco.

The demand for cannabis across Canada has been, well, high (no way to avoid that pun this Friday), surprising no one that has a lot of experience with the industry, but too many policymakers and regulators...

Congratulations and Thank You for Legalizing Cannabis, Canada!

Written by Anthony Johnson on October 17, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Barcelona, ICBC Berlin, ICBC San Francisco, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

October 17, 2018, the long-awaited day that cannabis goes legal across Canada has arrived and the world will never be the same. With all due respect to the great progress made by Uruguay, who helped...

Portugal Legalizes Medical Cannabis, Must Improve Law Soon

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 31, 2018. Posted in Policy.

Portugal has been a leader in reforming the failed War on Drugs, decriminalizing the personal use of all drugs back in 2001. By all accounts, ending draconian Drug War penalties and treating drug use...

Border War: Americans Set to Invade Canada…for Cannabis

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 12, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics.

Rightwing provocateur Alex Jones recently received some well-deserved ridicule for claiming that American liberals were going to start a Second Civil War this past July 4th, a prediction that,...

Canadian Investors Still Bullish on Legal Cannabis

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 10, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver.

While at the International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last month, it was easy to feel the excitement that the cannabis community has over legal cannabis coming to Canada....

Vancouver ICBC Kicks Off This Sunday!

Written by ICBC Staff on June 22, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Vancouver, Social.

Cannabis law reformers and industry participants have a lot of reasons to celebrate and there’s no better place to be than the International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver which kicks...