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Another 1,000,000 square-foot facility will open by year-end.

On Legalization Day at 10:00 am, three outlets of the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) opened their doors in Montreal, out of twelve across the province—one located in the suburb of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, across from big-box park Marché Centrale; one located downtown on Ste-Catherine and Mansfield; and one in the former Plaza Saint-Hubert. I visited […]

Polls indicate the CAQ will gain power, and their cannabis policies are much more restrictive than the current law.

The famously straight-edge punk legend holds forth on lovable stoners, the connection between cannabis and gay rights, and his goal of being a “moral force” in the cannabis space.

“Quebec will be ready for the legalization of cannabis this summer and which, I repeat, has been imposed by the federal government,” said Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois.

When Health Minister Lucie Charlebois speaks of a majority who oppose home growing, it very well may be a deck stacked with companies who stand to make a profit from keeping Quebeckers from growing their own.

Some Indigenous communities want an all-out ban on cannabis. Others want to be able to grow and sell cannabis freely. All feel they have a moral right to decide for themselves.

Megan D. Wallace will be teaching the course as a survey of the possible impacts that cannabis legalization will have on the law—and the possibilities, she says, are widespread.

Founder of the Bloc Pot and the Marijuana Party (and co-founder of the Montreal Compassion Centre), Marc-Boris St-Maurice reflects on several decades of fighting the good fight for cannabis.