A STUDY published in June that I have just come across provides unsurprising but nonetheless devastating and irrefutable evidence linking increased cannabis use with rising rates of breast and testicular cancers in young Americans.
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Ottawa’s marijuana tax take falls far short of billion-dollar promises
Ottawa’s marijuana tax revenues have stalled at less than a quarter billion dollars a year, far below the billion-dollar windfall once promised by cabinet when cannabis was legalized in 2018.
Blacklock’s Reporter says a Department of Finance memo shows federal-only cannabis revenues were $244 million in 2024, down from $256.7 million in 2020, the year edible products were first licensed.
Trump’s Proposed Easing of Federal Restrictions on Marijuana Would Be a Mistake
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration will decide “over the next few weeks” whether to ease federal restrictions on marijuana. While cannabis companies have put aggressive pressure on the president to reclassify the drug, doing so would be a deadly mistake.
First, some background. The Controlled Substances Act authorizes the federal government to place drugs in one of five schedules, each of which imposes restrictions and penalties based on a drug’s potential for abuse. Schedule I, where marijuana is currently listed, contains substances with no accepted medical use and a high risk of abuse.
Pot grower caught using illegal alien child labor the real victim or something
ICE raid at major pot operation clouds picture for legal cannabis in California
Camarillo — Ever since federal immigration agents raided one of the largest licensed cannabis operators in the state this month, the phones of cannabis industry insiders have been blazing with messages of fear, sadness and confusion.
“It sent shock waves through the community,” said Hirsh Jain, the founder of Ananda Strategy, which advises cannabis businesses. “Everyone is on text threads.”
Glass House Brands, whose cannabis operations have helped make Santa Barbara and Ventura counties the new cannabis capitals of California, has long been among the most prominent companies in the state’s wild frontier of legal cannabis. Some call it the “Walmart of Weed” for its streamlined, low-cost production methods, its gargantuan market share and its phalanx of wealthy investors and powerful lobbyists.
The Enemy Within: The Billion Dollar Chinese Grow House Industry
It’s a billion-dollar industry, illegal and controlled by Chinese mafia networks in quiet rural and suburban neighborhoods across America. If that weren’t concerning enough, it also involves drugs, money laundering, illegal immigration, slave labor, and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) extensive influence in the American heartland. It includes illegal marijuana cultivation in states where the drug has been legalized, and a major FBI bust of a grow house network in New England has shocked the nation with details of the massive scale of marijuana production used to generate profits routed back to China.
Impact of high-potency cannabis rippling through courts, health-care system
Matthew Fox says he has two words for customers wanting to try Marvin’s Premium Candy Co. Cherry edibles.
“Good luck.”
Fox works behind the counter at the Realeaf Cannabis trailer on Highway 11, just north of Saskatoon. The business is owned by the Saulteaux First Nation.
Why more Canadians are landing in emergency departments with cannabis-induced vomiting
The commercialization of cannabis and higher potency of THC is driving increases in cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, research suggests
Emergency departments are seeing a spike in visits owing to a once unusual, highly unpleasant and, in rare cases, potentially life-threatening side effect of chronic cannabis use: severe bouts of vomiting lasting hours, even days.
As pot becomes more potent and more convenient to purchase, emergency doctors are reporting more cases of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS, a gastrointestinal condition that can affect people who use cannabis frequently (several times a week, if not daily) over months or years.
John Ivison: Punitive taxes are killing the legal cannabis industry
If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a cannabis production company in Canada.
In the original version of his famous quote, British entrepreneur Richard Branson was highlighting the challenges and capital intensive nature of the airline industry. But a new report by consultancy firm Deloitte, due for release on Wednesday, paints a similar picture.
Marijuana and the Mentally Ill
Legalization is pushing community mental health to the brink.
America’s ongoing marijuana-legalization experiment will have many consequences. That goes especially for the seriously mentally ill, a sliver of the adult population but overrepresented among the ranks of compulsive pot users. Treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is never easy; even when treatment is available, the seriously mentally ill often fail to comply. A schizophrenic who spends most of his days in a dark room smoking weed is not a clinically promising case.
Is Canada’s legal weed tied to a smuggling epidemic abroad?
PARIS—There is a brisk and growing trade between Canada and Europe, and it has nothing to do with American tariffs or Donald Trump.
Canadian cannabis is increasingly washing up on the shores of this continent, landing in its airports and being sold on its streets. It is part of an illegal-smuggling trend that authorities believe is tied to Canada’s 2018 decision to legalize the sale and consumption of marijuana.
That law made Canada a leader — the first among industrialized nations to permit recreational cannabis use. Now, Canada has developed an international black eye as a top source nation for the drug, which remains illegal in much of the world.
Trudeau pushed legalization. I’m betting because China wanted it.
How the CCP’s United Front Turned Canada’s Legal Cannabis Market into a Global Narcotics Brokerage Network
VANCOUVER, Canada — Around the time Canadian police uncovered a massive Chinese drug cash bank in Richmond, B.C.—exposing the so-called Vancouver Model of transnational money laundering—investigators made another stunning discovery that has never before been publicly disclosed.
According to sources with direct knowledge, operatives tied to Beijing’s foreign influence arm, the United Front Work Department, were orchestrating a parallel cannabis trafficking and money laundering operation—leveraging Canada’s legalization of marijuana to export the lucrative commodity to the United States and Japan. The scheme used short-term rental platforms to operate illicit cannabis brokerage houses in Vancouver, aggregating product from vast acreages across Western Canada and shipping it to destinations including Tokyo and New York City. Proceeds were collected in United Front-linked drug cash brokerages in those cities and laundered back through Canadian banks.
Canadians list cannabis legalization as Trudeau’s crowning success
The online poll, conducted and presented by the Angus Reid Institute, took place from March 4-6, 2025, among a representative randomized sample of 1,850 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum.
Just over half of Canadians (52%) listed cannabis legalization as an example of a policy success by the Trudeau Liberal government, higher than the public’s view of the Trudeau government’s handling of COVID-19 (47%) and the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (46%).
That’s one dope addled legacy for the Dope.
New York’s Pot Boom Is Nothing to Celebrate
State officials trumpet $1 billion in marijuana sales while downplaying health risks, surging youth use, and meager tax revenues.
Albany’s celebration of $1 billion in commercial marijuana sales earlier this year must have been music to Big Pot’s ears. “Let us celebrate the individuals, businesses, and communities in cannabis who drive our state’s economic engine,” exulted Felicia A. B. Reid, acting executive director of the state Office of Cannabis Management.
No one would expect state health commissioner James McDonald to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with, say, Altria or Philip Morris USA to celebrate the sale of tobacco products. But here was Reid, backing drugs known to cause addiction, IQ loss, psychosis, and schizophrenia, especially in young people.
Cannabis tourism stunted by too much regulation
It’s time for cannabis tourism to be taken seriously in Calgary and Alberta — in fact, in all of Canada.
But let’s focus on Calgary.
Coun. Kourtney Penner is introducing a notice of motion to allow for the sale of cannabis at festivals and events to streamline rules and bring them in line with those for alcohol. Selling cannabis at festivals and events is allowed in Alberta, but not in Calgary, because of how the original bylaw was written in 2018. The current bylaw says cannabis sales have to be tied to a provincial licence, which has to be done at a brick-and-mortar location.
Canadian governments make poor drug dealers.
Rising cannabis use disorder linked to increase in schizophrenia and higher risk of death, studies show
Two new studies led by Ottawa researcher Dr. Daniel Myran link higher rates of death as well as “concerning increases” in new schizophrenia diagnoses to cannabis use disorder.
One study found that cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use disorder almost tripled in Ontario between 2006 and 2022, a period in which people seeking hospital treatment for cannabis use disorder increased by 270 per cent. The second study found that people who had been treated at hospitals for cannabis use disorder were at a significantly higher risk of death compared to the general population.