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Cannabis

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

October 17, 2018July 16, 2019 - 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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Cannabis

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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Cannabis

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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Cannabis

Legalized Marijuana Goes Luxe

October 17, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Jen Gerson

Inside the growing culture of cannabis connoisseurship

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Cannabis

Is the World Ready for Canada to Be a Marijuana Superpower?

July 11, 2018September 14, 2021 - by Brett Popplewell

In a few months, the land of maple syrup will lead the global weed economy

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Illustration by Sam Island
Cannabis / January/February 2017 / The Walrus True Crime

The First Lady of Reefer Madness

December 22, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Melvyn Green

How a renowned Canadian feminist popularized our racist war on drugs

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Photograph by Richmond Lam
Cannabis / September 2016

The Big Smoke

August 18, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Brett Popplewell

Inside the Ontario company that is set to turn Canada into a marijuana superpower

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Cannabis / May 2014

Weeding Out Organized Crime

April 14, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Dan Werb

What legal pot in the US means for BC drug gangs

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Photograph by Reuters/Mark Blanch
April 2011 / Society

To Pot

April 12, 2011August 7, 2021 - by Matthew McKinnon

Legalizing marijuana would benefit everyone: cops, taxpayers, and victims of crime. Everyone, that is, but the stoners

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May 2010 / Politics

The Princess of Pot

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Monte Paulsen

With her husband Marc in jail, Jodie Emery, a Green Party candidate in the next federal election, will inherit his cannabis empire

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