Aurora Cannabis Inc (NYSE:ACB) (TSX:ACB) announced Tuesday that it had secured an export permit and completed its first shipment of medical cannabis to the Czech Republic.

The first order was shipped to Czech Medical Herbs s.r.o., a Czech drug wholesaler, which will supply pharmacies across the country.

In order to run some of the leading cannabis firms in the world, it seems reasonable that one of the prerequisites of the job would be to have an extensive history of using marijuana from back when it was still considered an outlaw substance. But that is not necessarily the case, according to a recent surveyfrom BNN Bloomberg.

It seems that a small percentage of CEOs responsible for the day-to-day operations of cannabis companies in the U.S. and Canada do not use marijuana, while many others will not admit whether they do or not.

Canadian stock exchanges have served as a hot spot for U.S. cannabis companies as they list their shares north of the border to better access capital markets.

Canada currently finds itself at the intersection of two historic social phenomena with massive implications for public health.

First, after decades of restricting public access to marijuana, on Oct. 17, Canada became the first major industrial nation to fully legalize cannabis for both medicinal and recreational usage.

Second, we find ourselves in the throes of a worsening opioid addiction crisis that has already caused the deaths of thousands of Canadians, young and old.

When 2018 finally comes to a close, investors will likely look back and declare this the most game-changing year in cannabis history.

The big news, as you're probably aware, was the legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada a little more than five weeks ago. When the industry is running on all cylinders, it's expected to bring in billions of dollars in added annual sales, as well as generate plenty of green for the industry.

Desperate times call for desperate measures in Canada’s supply-constrained pot industry.

National Access Cannabis Corp., the country’s largest private marijuana retailer with 17 stores, has a team of five people watching 24/7 for new inventory from Alberta’s provincial regulator, which controls wholesale pot distribution. “At 3:30 in the morning all of a sudden $4,000 worth of inventory is made available yet in seven minutes it’s drawn down, meaning that other big competitors are doing the same thing,” Mark Goliger, chief executive officer of Ottawa-based NAC, said in a phone interview Friday.

The pullback in the Canadian market has hit all sectors across the TSX Index. This is providing investors with a broad choice of top stocks that are now trading well below their highs for the year.

Let’s take a look at Toronto-Dominion Bank(TSX:TD)(NYSE:TD) and Canopy Growth Corp(TSX:WEED)(NYSE:CGC) to see if one is attractive today for your RRSP portfolio.

Marijuana for adult-use is now legal in Canada, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that employers all across the country are all of sudden on board with weed in the same way they are with alcohol.

Unfortunately, science has yet to catch up with the legalization movement, making it difficult for companies to tell the difference between workers who got stoned last night and the ones that are high on the job.

The Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are continuing their annual joint search-and-destroy mission against illegal outdoor cannabis grows — another example of how the war against the plant is alive and well, despite legalization.

Cannabis e-commerce operator Namaste Technologies Inc (CVE:N) (OTCQB:NXTTF) has unveiled an investment of $250,000 in Kief Cannabis, a Manitoba-based craft cannabis producer.

Namaste’s funding comes in exchange for 46,729 class B shares of Kief at a cost of $5.35 per share and gives it a 3% stake in Kief, based on an $8.1 million valuation.