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A blonde woman smokes a joint, surrounded by photos of various cannabis and wellness paraphernalia (weed brownies, a pipe, green juice, tea, and a bowl full of greens)
Business / January/February 2020

Is Cannabis the Answer to Everything?

January 15, 2020March 27, 2020 - 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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Cannabis

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, 2018January 4, 2020 - 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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Cannabis

Pot Is Legal. Is It Time to Redefine Sobriety?

October 17, 2018January 4, 2020 - 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

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, 2018January 4, 2020 - by Brett Popplewell

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

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Illustration by Vesna Asanovic
Cannabis

Wake and Bake

April 20, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Felix Vikhman

A psychotherapist details the rise of marijuana-induced psychosis among his clients

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September 2015 / Society

Green-Light District

August 18, 2015January 4, 2020 - by Laura Trethewey

Get your pot prescription—in four minutes or less

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Photograph by Grant Harder
April 2013 / Cannabis

Grow Industry

March 12, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Marijuana prohibition is destined to end. Who will become the Seagrams of weed?

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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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