Where will the cannabis industry be in ten years, thing are looking good for a couple of Canadian cannabis companies, we question how Winnipeg police are targeting cannabis purchasers, and more Canadians want help for the cannabis industry. We stop on Cultivar Corner, brought to you by Up In Smoke, we sample from Rosin Heads Hash Rosin drops Purple Punch.
Where will the cannabis industry be in ten years, thing are looking good for a couple of Canadian cannabis companies, we question how Winnipeg police are targeting cannabis purchasers, and more Canadians want help for the cannabis industry. We stop on Cultivar Corner, brought to you by Up In Smoke, we sample from Rosin Heads Hash Rosin drops Purple Punch.
Winnipeg police target cannabis shoppers
Where will cannabis be in 10 years
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Ian
From a studio high above the clouds of the Okanagan Valley. This is the cannabis potcast.
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Ian
Exploring the world of Canadian cannabis culture. One toke at a time. Here is your host and bud tender Gary Johnston
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Gary Johnson I don't know. Seems to me like this is perhaps the perfect time for me to say welcome to the Cannabis potcast. Especially if you come back. That's good. Or maybe this is your very first time. That's even better. I'm glad to have you here. We're going to be spending the next 30 minutes talking about a plant I'm absolutely passionate about, and that is cannabis.
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Gary Johnston
Now, perhaps you have some relating to that, and that may be one of the reasons why you're here. Now, before we get too much further, let me remind you this podcast is intended for those of legal consumption age in your jurisdiction and is intended purely for entertainment and perhaps educational purposes. You should always consume your cannabis responsibly. And in episode 208.
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Gary Johnston
Where will the cannabis industry be in ten years? We'll ask that question. Things are looking good for a couple of Canadian cannabis companies and what they're doing. We question how Winnipeg police are targeting cannabis purchasers and more Canadians want help for the cannabis industry. We start off on Cultivar Corner, brought to you by Up in Smoke, where we sample from rosin heads, hash rosin drops, Purple Punch and all of that and more.
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Gary Johnston
On episode 208 of the Cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
And of course, I always want to thank you for being here. I truly appreciate the fact that you are a listener of the Cannabis potcast, and I also want to thank my patrons from Patreon for a couple more weeks. Thank you so much. I truly appreciate it. My patrons, I thank you for Tony, Rob, Gage, Lloyd, Roger, Justin, and Lindy.
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Gary Johnston
I thank each of you for your support. And now let's get to our first story and we are heading to Strat Connect. Com for the next story. And this is about Winnipeg police targeting cannabis consumers. And I wondered about this when we had the story. Originally a man in Winnipeg who was swept up in a recent police effort to target people shopping at cannabis stores, says his driver's license was suspended despite not being under the influence of cannabis.
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Gary Johnston
Shawn Vipond, 30, recently told CBC that he was one of 97 people swept up by Winnipeg police who were targeting people that police said were shopping at cannabis stores. Despite testing positive for cannabis in the roadside. Stop. My poem says he was not impaired by cannabis, not having consumed it for nearly a full day prior to being pulled over in February after shot after stopping at a cannabis store.
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Gary Johnston
Police told me to my face that there was no visible reason for suspension, Vipond told the CBC. It was just purely on the basis of that. I bought weed and then drove to see Winnipeg police boasting about this and acting like everybody who was caught was recklessly smoking during the day and driving high when that's really not the reality of it.
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Gary Johnston
It's humiliating, he added. In April, police in Winnipeg said they had been targeting cannabis store customers as part of an ongoing impaired driving enforcement campaign between January and March of 2025. The Winnipeg Police Service Central Traffic Division launched an enforcement campaign that they say focused on drivers under the influence of cannabis and other illicit drugs during campaign. Officers conducted 302 traffic stops and administered 270 drug screening test using approved screening equipment.
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Gary Johnston
Nearly half of those drivers, 97, tested positive for recent cannabis consumption. This was similar to the rate for those tested in a similar campaign in 2020 for all drivers, including Vipond faced an immediate roadside suspension of their license. Only one driver was said to have been charged criminally for refusing to be tested. During a press conference in April.
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Gary Johnston
Winnipeg Police Patrol Staff Sergeant Stefan Fontaine said that he focused the campaign on areas around the more than 100 cannabis stores in Winnipeg. There were over 130 or so dispensaries throughout the city of Winnipeg. So what I did was made a plan to basically target those areas where there's dispensaries and we watched the traffic coming to and from those known shops.
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Gary Johnston
The officers still have to form the proper ground to make all of their lawful demands, but that's where they spent their time. He also noted that many of these individuals were testing positive on their way to a cannabis store, although he did not indicate how officers knew their destination. Fontaine added that most drivers who tested positive for THC were found between 3 and 6 p.m., which he notes is different from enforcement against those impaired by alcohol.
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Gary Johnston
Stewart can set a request for further information to the Winnipeg Police Service in April, asking for more info into how Winnipeg police selected vehicles for drug screening tests, or how they had determined if a driver was on their way to a cannabis store, but was told that as the questions speak to operational tactics, they will not be able to respond.
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Gary Johnston
Winnipeg police say they use an oral swab to detect cannabis. The accuracy of oral swab test and blood test has been challenged by different researchers. A 2014 study found that THC could be detected in oral fluid for up to eight days after admission, leading to false positives. A 2024 study in Ontario look at the effects of edible cannabis on simulated driving and blood THC levels found that driving impairment was not correlated with blood THC.
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Gary Johnston
Police in Winnipeg recommended not driving for 12 hours after consuming edible cannabis products. Penalties for driving while impaired by cannabis can include criminal charges. Loss of one's driver's license, vehicle impairment and fined. Police can also use both oral testing equipment and assessments by drug recognition officers. In Canada, drives with over two nanograms of THC, but under five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood can face a street summary conviction offense.
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Gary Johnston
Drivers found with over five milligrams of THC in their blood can face a drug alone hybrid offense. Harrison Jordan, the managing lawyer of substance law, a law firm focusing on regulated substances, including cannabis, tell Strachan that he could see future attempted challenges to the law behind such charges, but notes that court decisions thus far have not struck down the law.
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Gary Johnston
While consumption may not be necessarily equal impairment when it comes to cannabis. It's the best corollary law enforcement has right now, he explains, noting the evidence on such testing. Determining impairment is mixed. Unless and until the science becomes crystal clear or there is some better or more reliable, scalable and deployable way to measure impairment instead of just blood levels.
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Gary Johnston
More precisely, we're likely to have this framework remain in place. A judge is going to be super cautious about removing a tool that law enforcement says is effective at detecting and deterring, risking driving someone charged with at least two nanograms. But less than five, which is a straight summary offense, may have a slightly easier time attempting to challenge that offense, as the degree of evidence that blood level is correlated with impairment or increased risk of vehicular accidents is likely lower than the evidence for five milligrams in above, which is viewed as a more serious hybrid offense.
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Gary Johnston
I find this really interesting that they are targeting people shopping in cannabis stores. This is not the way it should go.
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Ian
For the cannabis infused studio in the clouds, this is the cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
And for our next story we are going to the object. This was written by Pat Bowmer. We cannabis industry may resemble the alcohol business in ten years, said the top person at one of Canada's largest cannabis companies. In an almost two hour online session for investors, Beena Goldenberg, CEO of Organigram Global, said she hopes for a cannabis friendly future in which the industry mirrors today's alcohol landscape, with broader retail access, greater marketing freedoms and the ability to speak openly with consumers.
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Gary Johnston
Growth has slowed as the industry matures, but despite delayed regulatory process, we remain optimistic, she said. Cannabis is no longer fringe. It's mainstream culture, rerouted medically accepted and economically vital for a company like ours with scale, experience and capital discipline. We believe the future is bright. Organigram was founded in 2013, in Moncton, New Brunswick. Its head office is now in Toronto and has four additional facilities in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba Organigram Moncton campus is home to our flagship facility and over 800 dedicated team members spanning 5000ft².
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Gary Johnston
Right now, we have expansion initiatives in Moncton targeting 13,000kg of additional flour over the next 18 months. The future of cannabis will be about more than just getting high, said Broadnax Omak senior vice president of research and development. The future of cannabis is not just about high octane experiences. The evolving consumer covers a range of needs and ages.
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Gary Johnston
The cannabis consumer of tomorrow is health and wellness conscious, purpose driven, seeking functional effects and not just recreational highs. Don't get me wrong, we're all seeking recreational highs as well. But looking to integrate cannabinoids into daily ritual is a part of our mission, he said. While the future is promising, things have been changing lately, said Chief Financial Officer Greg Good.
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Gary Johnston
The market faced severe price compression, especially in flower, due to oversupply and fragmentation. A lot of LPs lower their prices to try to maintain market share, including us, and that really reduce our revenue and increase the impact of our excise duties. The next thing that we experienced was something very common in the industry. Inflated THC labeling by some of our competitors.
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Gary Johnston
Some companies were artificially boosting THC numbers on labels to attract customers. We chose not to follow suit. Stock prices and profits are at levels Organigram wants, but the company is making moves to prepare for the future, he said. We make significant, targeted investments to boost efficiency and her new categories and strengthen our long term competitiveness. We invested in a number of key areas.
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Gary Johnston
These improvements were aimed squarely at lowering our per unit cost and increasing operating efficiency, Goyette said. The company has expanded into new areas with success in particularly pre-rolls. We made a large investment into automated equipment for tube style pre-rolls, which is now another favorite among our consumers today. Our entry into this segment has been a major success. Another key lever in improving revenue and margins is the expansion of international sales.
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Gary Johnston
Organigram global is positioned to stand the test of time, he said. Many cannabis companies in North America probably won't be here in 5 to 10 years. Like everyone in the industry. Organigram is hoping for excise tax and stamp reform when a new federal government takes office. We want to move to one national stamp instead of different provincial stamps, said Guyot.
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Gary Johnston
That's something the Trudeau government had promised. Look into. There appears to be interest in removing this operational complexity, which cost the industry over $100 million. Excise taxes are 10% of a product's wholesale price, or $1 per gram, whichever is greater. With prices dropping, the $1 per gram is standard now. The industry is asking for a simple 10% tax.
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Gary Johnston
The duty is a fixed price per gram, regardless of the price, said Geyer. In fiscal 2024. We paid a whopping $87 million in excise duties. That's 35% of our ship sales. A shift to a 10% ad valorem excise duty on flour could be transformational, not just for us, but for our industry as a whole. Exporter cannabis is not subject to an excise tax.
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Gary Johnston
Goldenberg said the company is talking to government officials all the time. Last month, Organigram announced the purchase of Collective Project Limited, which produces cannabis and hemp derived infused sparkling juices, teas and sodas in the U.S.. Not only does this acquisition represent our first commercial entry into the fast growing, hemp derived THC beverage market in the U.S., it also fast tracks our entry into the cannabis beverage category in Canada, a category that we believe is on the cusp of growth at home as well, said Goldenberg in a news release.
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Gary Johnston
Collective Project beverages are available in ten states. Organigram brass also outlined the benefits of a 345 million investment in the company from British American Tobacco. The money has helped largely with research and expansion. Do the top executives use their company's products? One investor asked. There was a little hesitation. Then admissions. They consumed gummies and beverages. Except for the R&D guy.
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Gary Johnston
I'm headed R&D and innovation, too. Obviously, I partake in almost all the categories, and it's nice to have transparency. In your opinion.
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Gary Johnston
We are picking this story up from the outside, and Pat Bulmer is our author. And here's what we're talking about. Rubicon says it can fill cannabis shortages. Rubicon says it can fill global cannabis shortage. B.C. based Rubicon Organics is well positioned to help fill a global cannabis shortage, its CEO told potential investors in Las Vegas. We now today have a global shortage of cannabis in the legal market, said Margaret Bodie.
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Gary Johnston
New countries are turning on and these are very few, very few companies that are able to produce premium quality. We are one of them. Brody was pitching a $3 million share offering in a presentation at the Planet Microcap showcase. She touted the company's award winning organic products, solid financial performance and focus on quality. We have a solid balance sheet with near-term growth opportunities, she said.
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Gary Johnston
A slide presentation boasted of ten quarters of positive adjusted EBITDA. Getting into the they business led to record revenues in the last quarter of 2024. It was our fastest, most successful launch ever. It's successful because of the quality we do in the beginning. There's more to come in that category for us. The company has said double digit growth in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.
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Gary Johnston
Its working capital position is strong at just under 20 million. Its first international shipment sailed this year. Our first shipment was to Poland, said Brody. We're not interested in selling hockey bags of weed. We're interested in building roots in markets that are sustainable. The UK, Germany and Switzerland are possible future markets, she said. Rubicon will open a new facility later this year in B.C. its main operation is in Delta, but the company bought a facility in Hope from meta form.
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Gary Johnston
The deal is expected to close soon. The new facility will expand capacity by 40%. The 125,000 square foot facility in Delta has an annual production capacity of 11,000kg, her presentation showed. The 40,000 square foot location in Hope can produce 40 500kg in a year. We believe by the end of this year it will be producing, Brody said. Trends in the industry favor Rubicon.
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Gary Johnston
Consumers want better quality cannabis. Provincial cannabis wholesalers are streamlining their offerings. We do a very well in that because we care about quality and customers are becoming more particular in their choices. They ask for specific brands now. Rubicon is flagship. Brands are simply bare. 1964 supply Co and wildflower. And it's nice to see Rubicon doing well and getting ready for the future.
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Ian
THC CBD to be profiled. What's in me? Oh please explain to me. Go to the.
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Unknown
Core. The door to the corner. You go to the corner.
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Ian
Please explain this stuff to me.
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Gary Johnston
Welcome to Cultivar Corner, brought to you by Up in Smoke at 258 West Broadway in Vancouver and online at It's Up in smoke.com. If you live in B.C. and you're 19 years of age or older, you can have products shipped to you from up in smoke. And in fact, if you live in Vancouver and you order before 2:00 on any given day, you can have your delivery made by e-scooter.
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Gary Johnston
It's getting better and better. So today we are doing hash. Rawson drops indica. This is the purple punch. So it's some rosin heads. And we did have some success before with the rosin heads sativa. And what we did was I think we started with six. So that's what I'm going to do this time. And we'll try that out and we'll see where they go.
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Gary Johnston
Again, these don't have much taste.
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Gary Johnston
Not much taste at all.
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Gary Johnston
So they quickly go through my deductive system.
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Gary Johnston
There's two.
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Gary Johnston
And that's pretty good for three. For. And before we not. Five and six. Okay. Well, it's certainly a lot faster.
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Gary Johnston
It's a pretty hard to not have that go well because you eat them and they just pretty well do what they do. So now we will wait for a half an hour. And once we've done that, half an hour, perhaps I'm feeling a little bit and I may add some to it. But we'll see. And this is what the experiment is always like.
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Gary Johnston
Now that we have something that is using some hash rosin, I think it's going to have more effect on that. But I'm but I'm not sure. So this is purple punch is the cultivar that they are using on these. And ingredients cocoa butter and live resin or no live rosin. Right. Yeah. Live rosin. Got to get that word right.
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Gary Johnston
So let's see what happens after 30 minutes. And we'll come back and see whether we're getting a buzz. Okay. If you've been keeping track of time as I have, we have passed the 30 minute mark or actually about 40 minutes since we last imbibed in our hash rosin drops. And I, this is really confusing for me. It is not clear if I'm feeling it when I'm cleaning it.
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Gary Johnston
I wish I could really be more certain that what I'm feeling is what I think I'm feeling, but I have to say, I felt a little bit of a little bit of buzz. Not not heavy, but a little bit of a body stone. So I'm definitely not feeling any anything in the head. So it's definitely hanging into my body now.
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Gary Johnston
I did six of them and we've talked about it before where my, my dosage is usually considerably higher than anybody else's because I don't get much out of these. But, you know, the sex, I felt a little bit. So I'm going to do two more. We'll do out eight.
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Gary Johnston
And we'll see if those contribute anything to what I already have going on.
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Gary Johnston
But I really want to get to a space where some of this stuff is having an effect. It literally is having an effect. That's what I'm hoping for. So I think I'm getting a bit of a buzz here and I'm feeling a little bit of it and kind of like, oh well it's not Happy Eyes there. Definitely no happiness involved, but it is kind of moving up through my system.
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Gary Johnston
I believe, from my digestion and coming up through the liver. So it's gone through a little bit of a transformation and it's feeling pretty good. I can't be sure. I wish I had a definitive switch that I could throw and tell you whether or not I'm feeling that or not, but. But I'm not. We're just going to have to take this as it goes and see how this worked for us.
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Gary Johnston
So I'm feeling a bit off of those harsh rosin drops. The purple punch indicator. So I'm get a bit of a body stone going on right now, a bit of a buzz. We're going to hang on for another, let's say another 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, and we'll check in again to see how those other two headed, and we'll see where we end up, whether we're stoned or not.
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Gary Johnston
And I'm going to carry on even though the washing machine is going, and I'm going to have a little bit of extra noise in the background here. But I have gone another 20 minutes. We've taken an additional two of the hash raisins, and I'm feeling kind of good today. Like, I don't know if this is going to go into a deep indica as I as I continue to imbibe in these, whether it's going to get to that stage.
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Gary Johnston
But I'm feeling really nice. Got some nice body stone going on. Just that that really nice body stone. I just feeling pretty good. And it's more an indica because definitely we're dealing with the purple punch. So definitely going on the indica side. But I have to say, I think I might have gotten a buzz. So let me remind you that Cultivar Corner is brought to you by Up in Smoke at 258 West Broadway in Vancouver, and online at It's Up and smoke.com, where if you live in BC and you're 19 years of age or older, you can have something shipped to you.
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Gary Johnston
And if you live in the city of Vancouver and you order by 2 p.m., you can have them set by e-scooter. That's fabulous too. And I think we've got a winner, winner, winner chicken dinner. I think we have had success with the hash, the rosin head hash, rosin. And now I've got eight of those in me today. It's feeling pretty good.
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Gary Johnston
It's really not. It's not heavy. I'm not really, really high, I don't think, but I have I had definitely got some buzz and I think it got a little bit of body stone going on. So I'm going to suggest that that we have achieved close to Nirvana. It's so nice to have one that works. I wish there were more, I truly do, but that's it.
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Gary Johnston
This is Robin. Head hash. Rosin drops and I'm thinking it worked.
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Ian
Sharing stories about good weed while trying good weed. This is the cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
And for this story we were picking up from Strack and Ecom and this is the week in Weed. May 10th. This past week is track and we looked into a new Cannabis Industry Association, Australia, that is warning the government of the dire state of the industry in the wake of flood of imports, the BC. LDV released its most recent sales figures for the first three months of 2025, showing a slight year over year increase in sales.
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Gary Johnston
We also looked at questions surrounding a recent blitz of enforcement action against cannabis consumers who drive in Winnipeg, and the recession in Nelson, BC, to deny a permit for an outdoor cannabis consumption space. A cannabis store in Calgary won an appeal related to the distance between the store and newly created private school. Financial news media. Farm responded to accusations from Apollo Technology Capital Corporation.
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Gary Johnston
An Alberta court ruled that high park Tilray are not disallowed from voting on a proposed 420 plan, and Cronos released their Q2 25 results. In other cannabis news, two councilors in Victoria, B.C., put a motion to the council to look into allowing cannabis stores to operate. Was just one employee. The motion was defeated. Organigram global announced it was named exporter of the year by Opportunities New Brunswick as part of the 2025 New Brunswick Export Awards.
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Gary Johnston
Glenn Simard, a Manitoba MLA, toured Organigram's edibles production facility in Winnipeg. High tide CEO Raj Grover posted a selfie with Alberta Premier Daniel Smith riding. High tide remains committed to working with all levels of government to combat the illicit cannabis market and support his thriving legal industry. High Ted's Omar Khan posted a similar pic, with the development consulting team, also referencing the independent retail cannabis collective.
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Gary Johnston
High tide also announced a new Kanika Cabana location in Cornwall, Ontario. The opening brings high tides, total store count to 197. Canopy Cabana brand locations across Canada. Village Farms International rescheduled its previously announced conference call to discuss its first quarter to Tuesday, May 13th. Greenway Greenhouse Cannabis Corporation applied to Health Canada for new dedicated propagation space at its Leamington, Ontario, facility and a wave of opposition to licenses for cannabis stores being issued after years of planning.
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Gary Johnston
There were signs the Mohawk Council of Waukee may be considering grower IQ announced its selection to represent Team Canada and the upcoming trade mission to Thailand, organized by Global Affairs Canada. Its high level delegation showcases innovation Canadian companies poised for international growth. Grower IQ is the only cannabis related business selected to participate. Doctor Iris Garfinkel spoke with CBC about a recent Jama study on cannabis use among younger Canadians.
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Gary Johnston
A new report says that cannabis usage among young people in Yukon is down since legalization began among rural youth. 29% reported cannabis use in the past 30 days in 2022, down from 38% in 2018. A Calgary judge denied a homeowner's plea for the court to force his insurance company to cover a liability claim for a house fire he caused by making BHO in his garage.
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Gary Johnston
The Sureté de Québec Contraband Investigation Service conducted a cannabis production operation at production sites, with plants being grown and dried at various stages of the growth. Police seized a hash brush, 200g of hash, 50kg of cannabis production equipment, a handgun, cocaine and cash. An Ontario man was arrested while trying to board the ferry at Newfoundland with 200 cannabis resin vape products, 8 pounds of cannabis, unstaffed tobacco products and more than $3,500 in cash in international cannabis news, New Zealand medicinal cannabis sector is warming.
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Gary Johnston
That owner regulations around production are restricting the local sector while international players flood the market. A new report in Israel says the rate of cannabis imports from Canada continues to rise, while the number of patents continues to stagnate. The Pennsylvania House advanced a bill legalizing recreational cannabis. The bill now goes to the state Senate. Democrats have championed the issue while Republicans have pushed back.
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Gary Johnston
Senator Dan Loughlin of Erie County, a leading Republican on the issue, said on social media after the vote that there is no path forward in the Senate for a state store model for adult use cannabis. MJ biz reports that Colorado cannabis sales dropped by about $20 million during the first two months of the year, according to data released by the Colorado Department of Revenue.
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Gary Johnston
Sales have been decreasing annually since a peak in 2021. And finally, California Governor Gavin Newsom's office says the state has essentially eradicated hemp derived THC products from alcohol sellers after it instituted an emergency ban in September. There's some interesting information on the week in cannabis.
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Ian
From studio high above the clouds of the Okanagan Valley. This is the cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
And thank you once more for being a listener of the Cannabis potcast. I am so thankful for that. We managed to reach the end of another episode. Somehow I'm a surprise. If you want to comment on anything you hear, please send a note to info at Cannabis potcast.com. And if you want to do anything further, you can go to buy me a coffee.com/cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
If you like what you hear and you feel so inclined, you are welcome to buy me a doobie. And now let's get to the worst dad jokes in the world, because they're in a big box and they're right here. What's black and white and red all over? Everyone knows this one. It's a newspaper. And what kind of hair do oceans have?
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Gary Johnston
Wavy. So let me just get over it. Is what? Dinosaur had the best vocabulary while smoking cannabis. The saurus. And why didn't the orange win the race? It ran out of juice. I'm sorry. They're fun. I'm having fun with those. Thank you so much for being here. From the guy in the clouds. That's it for episode 208 of the Cannabis potcast.
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Ian
It's in the cannabis infused studio. High above the Okanagan Valley. This was the cannabis potcast.