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Athletes Are Getting Burned by Weed Rules. Is the Sports World Out of Touch?

February 3, 2022April 30, 2022 - by Alex Cyr

Cannabis attitudes have changed since Ross Rebagliati’s Olympic mishap in 1998, but pro sports remain stuck in the past

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Can Weed and Pro Sports Coexist? Episode 3 of The Deep Dive

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Attitudes toward cannabis have changed dramatically over the past couple of decades, but less so for professional athletes

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Business

What Do You Do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?

August 5, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Kieran Delamont

Cannabis legalization was supposed to be a licence to print money. Three years on, nobody is turning a profit

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July/August 2021

The Hazy Economy of Cannabis

June 7, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Alanna Mitchell

When Canada legalized recreational marijuana, a team of statisticians set out to decode how much exactly the weed business is worth

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Business / January/February 2020

Is Cannabis the Answer to Everything?

January 15, 2020March 9, 2021 - by Lauren McKeon

Weed has been rebranded as a cure-all for modern life. As a stressed-out, overworked thirtysomething, I decided to try it out for myself

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Canada Made Weed Legal. But For Who?

October 25, 2019January 4, 2020 - by Sarah Ratchford

One year later, cannabis users are still targeted based on race. Community advocates say it’s time for reparations

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Cannabis: Renee Gagnon

October 19, 2018May 10, 2021 - by Renee Gagnon

Cannabis offers an opportunity for diversity because the industry doesn’t have entrenched players and the ability to exclude entire groups

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Society

We’ve Legalized Marijuana. Let’s Modernize Our Alcohol Laws Too

October 17, 2018January 23, 2023 - by Paul Gallant

Canada is finally treating tokers like grownups. But we need to address the disparity between pot and booze

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Pot Is Legal. Is It Time to Redefine Sobriety?

October 17, 2018March 7, 2022 - by Amanda Scriver

The rise of CBD and other cannabis products pushes us to re-examine traditional ideas of substance-free living

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Inside the Underground Weed Workforce

October 17, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Lee Hawks

In 2010, I quit my teaching job and travelled south of the border to trim massive crops of cannabis

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