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Aurora Cannabis to raise $33.8M in share offering, plans to repay convertible debt

EDMONTON - Shares of Aurora Cannabis Inc. were down more than 10 per cent after the cannabis company announced plans to raise $33.8 million in a share offering. The company says Canaccord Ge...

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Canadian pot companies cheer as Senate committee advances cannabis finance reforms

WASHINGTON - Canadian cannabis companies and their investors cheered a Senate committee's decision Wednesday to push forward with measures designed to ease federal financing restrictions on th...

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Judge tosses Okanagan pot shop suit over unlicensed stores on reserve

A BC judge tossed out a claim from 14 cannabis stores which claimed the province's inability to control unlicensed shops on First Nation reservation lands was hurting their business. The...

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BioSteel creditors list shows company owes millions to the who's who of sports

SMITHS FALLS, Ont. - BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. owes a slew of top-ranking sports teams and leagues millions of dollars. In a preliminary list filed by the sports drink company which obt...

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Spiritleaf Vernon provides a growing array of cannabis products

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Sarah Ballantyne will often tell a customer at her Vernon cannabis retail store to say hi to his or her mom for her. It’s not that the owner of the Spiritleaf outlet necessarily knows the mo...

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The economic roller-coaster of a small Canadian town fuelled by chocolate and cannabis

SMITHS FALLS, Ont. - A small eastern Ontario town that was once known as the province's chocolate capital is preparing for the sweet return of Hershey's. "It's like an old f...

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Psychedelic drug MDMA eases PTSD symptoms in a study that paves the way for possible US approval

The psychedelic drug MDMA can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported in a new study published Thursday. The company sponsoring the research said it plans lat...

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Health professionals, patients challenge court rejection of psilocybin use in training

A group of health-care workers and patients have turned to Federal Court in an effort to overturn Health Canada's rejection of their request to use a restricted psychedelic drug for profession...

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Canopy Growth lands creditor protection for BioSteel business, intends to sell brand

Tired of its sports drink business weighing on its books, Canopy Growth Corp. is making moves to shed the division. The Smiths Falls, Ont., cannabis company announced Thursday that it had ob...

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Copenhagen mayor urges foreigners to stop buying marijuana at city's drug oasis following shooting

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Copenhagen’s mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighbourhood where a 30-year-old man was shot and killed and four othe...

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