It’s considered an alternative to smoking cigarettes, yet it’s causing more harm than good.

With eight reported deaths in the United States and the number of reported related illness climbing daily, health officials from all over are calling for an end to vaping.

In Canada, health officials in Ontario and British Columbia are investigating four cases of severe lung diseases (one likely and three possible) linked to vaping products (also known as e-cigarettes), the Globe and Mail reports.

The vaping health crisis is happening at a very bad time for the Canadian cannabis industry.

With pot stocks already down over 40 percent since the end of the first quarter, news that an Ontario youth has been diagnosed with Canada’s first reported vaping-linked illness while hundreds have fallen ill in the U.S., is further battering the sector.

Cannabis might not need chemically formulated foliar pesticides sprayed onto it, but it does need to eat food to maintain its own pest management capabilities. All of that THC, CBD, and rich, dank aroma does not just come from water!

Retails sales increased 0.4 per cent in July, the first advance in three months, as consumers spent more on new cars, Statistics Canada said Friday from Ottawa. The gain trailed economist expectations for a 0.6 per cent increase. Excluding motor vehicles and gasoline, retail sales fell 0.1 per cent on the month.

Cognitive decline is easily one of the biggest fears among people over the age of 50. Nearly everyone has experienced losing their keys, forgetting a name, or walking into a room not remembering why at some point in their lifetime.

But imagine that happening more frequently, combined with thoughts and behaviour changes. The fear of developing a form of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, is real for so many people. That same fear is the reason that learning more about the disease, including prevention and new Alzheimer’s treatments is very important to living the most fulfilled and healthy existence possible.

Marijuana and violence have been getting connected in odd ways over the past month or so. A new book argues that there is a connection, and a famous TV host has also raised the issue. Experts, on the other hand, have lined up to argue that they are both wrong.

The latest controversy over marijuana and violence got kickstarted by FOX News host Tucker Carlson when he recently interviewed  former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson.

Marijuana stocks have explosive potential. The global cannabis industry could generate annual sales as high as $200 billion within the next decade, according to investment bank Stifel. This would represent growth of more than 1,500% from the approximately $12 billion in sales the industry produced in 2018. 

The following three cannabis companies are particularly well-positioned to profit from the cannabis boom -- and investors who buy their stocks today should be well rewarded in the years ahead.

Some farmers growing hemp on P.E.I. want to be able to grow varieties that have higher levels of CBD.

They've been lobbying federal government agencies and politicians.

"We've sent letters to all the MPs, particularly in Prince Edward Island, we've sent letters to the prime minister," said Phillip Jennings, of Lorne Valley Ranch in eastern P.E.I. 

"We've even had people in government that have gone to Ottawa and say, put these Canadian farmers on a level playing field with the American farmers and allow them to grow some of these high CBD clones."​

Jennings and five other P.E.I. farmers are growing 300 acres of hemp under contract to Dosecann, an extraction facility in Charlottetown.

Jennings also grows 750 acres of hemp in the United States. 

The current state of the legal marijuana industry is messy, if not chaotic. If you’re one of the many hoping to make thousands of bucks on weed stocks, be careful which ones you pick. Some are not worth your money, so you’d better avoid them at all costs.

Cannabis is a mighty plant that can clean the soil in which it grows, but growing it indoors, while efficient, is unnatural.