Welcome to WeedWeek Canada, the best way to keep up with Canada's green rush.
WWCanada is a Saturday morning newsletter for professionals in the world's largest fully-legal cannabis market. Our goal is to deliver key data and insights in a quick, digestible format.
Like the original
WeedWeek
, WWCanada strives to replicate the separation of business and editorial operations practiced at reputable news organizations. Most importantly,
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WWCanada is written by Jesse Staniforth, a freelance journalist in Montreal who
has reported extensively on indigenous issues, cybersecurity, food safety, and cannabis for outlets including Leafly, ThinkProgress, The Walrus and Salon. You can find him on twitter
@jbstaniforth
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Trying to be good
On the pod this week, Hayley and Alex talk to Jennifer Lujan, director of social impact at California delivery start-up
Eaze.
We discuss how the ambitious start-up is embedding corporate social responsibility in its mission, what cannabis companies owe their communities, and how growing up in El Paso, Texas, on the Mexican border, influenced her thinking on the war on drugs.
The episode lands Monday by 4:20 p.m. Pacific.
Previous episodes:
-Episode 15 Combat veteran and cannatech entrepreneur Socrates Rosenfeld
-Episode 12 Cannabis attorney
Hilary Bricken on what's not working in the California market.
A must listen for professionals!
-Episode 10 Previously incarcerated activist and entrepreneur
Lukas Lucas on L.A.'s equity program
-Episode 7
Dr. Peter Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School, on cannabis, opioids and the medical establishment.
-Episode 4 L.A. cannabis Business attorney
Ariel Clark on what cannabis entrepreneurs need to know
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Consumer data about cannabis consumption generated by credit card purchases and online ordering to home addresses
may end up in the hands of US border officials, forcing Canadians to choose between lying to border guards about cannabis consumption (for which they can be banned from the US for life) or admitting cannabis consumption (for which they can also be banned for life). (Global News)
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The two professors co-chairing an upcoming academic conference on REC legalization at McGill University predicted that it
could have dire consequences. (Globe and Mail)
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recently met with Conservative Senators who oppose REC legalization Bill C-45, admitted
there may be some benefits to MED. (The Straight)
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33% of vacationers in Colorado aged 25 to 34 said
they came for legal cannabis, and Canadian businesses may soon benefit from cannabis tourism. (Greencamp)
The
National Bank of Canada is
staying out of the cannabis industry due to concerns over future class-action lawsuits against producers. CEO Louis Vachon said that while the tobacco industry faced no class action suit for 50 years, cannabis producers may face “a significant class action” within “maybe 50 months or 50 weeks.” (Financial Post)
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US producers that cannot list on American stock markets
are profiting from Canadian markets, while Canadian companies can list on American markets without issues and are doing so. (Financial Post)
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Public consultations on cannabis are taking place
in many small communities across the expanse of the North West Territories. (CBC North)
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