Today we have identified four Canadian marijuana stocks that have acquired their license to sell cannabis within the past five months. Although there are more than 100 cannabis-related companies in Canada, there are significantly fewer companies with a license to sell, which gives companies like those we have weeded out today a distinct advantage when recreational use of marijuana is legalized in Canada on October 17, 2018.

Very soon, the day that investors have long waited for will finally be here. On Oct. 17, Canada will officially allow licensed dispensaries to sell recreational marijuana to adults. This will make it the first industrialized country in the world to allow the sale of adult-use weed, and only the second overall behind Uruguay to permit recreational cannabis.

Starseed Medicinal Inc. has reached an agreement to be the medical cannabis supplier for Shoppers Drug Mart Corp.

The agreement is subject to Health Canada’s approval of Shoppers Drug Mart’s application to be a licensed producer. The products are expected to be sold online due to current regulations restricting the sale of medical marijuana in retail pharmacies.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Canada’s leading pharmacy network,” said Angelo Tsebelis, president of Starseed, in a news release. “Shoppers Drug Mart has taken a leadership role to validate cannabinoid therapy. We are excited to be working together as Starseed continues to expand its reach in the paid benefits space.”

In just a few weeks people in Ontario will be able to legally buy marijuana for the first time and we're learning more now about exactly how the new system will work.

The Ontario Cannabis Store announced Monday the names of 26 licensed producers for its online retail platform, the province's only online retailer for recreational pot this fall.

Jay Rosenthal, co-founder and president of Business of Cannabis, a research and analysis group, spoke with the CBC's Conrad Collaco about what people in the province can expect when the online doors finally open on Oct. 17. You can read an abridged and edited version of the interview below or listen to the full audio interview by hitting the play button above.

The legalization of cannabis is creating opportunities for a variety of businesses, whether it be real estate, food, and most certainly, tourism.

“Cannatourism, at its most basic level, is really about support for the travelling cannabis enthusiast,” Danielle Jackson, founder of cannatourism.ca and CEO of Dvibz, told Daily Hive over the phone.

Carol Francey waxes nostalgic when she thinks back to the first time she tried pot.

The year was 1966, the place was Toronto's hippie-packed Yorkville neighbourhood, and she was 17-and-a-half-years-old.

The Victoria resident has been using pot ever since, she says -- some 52 years. And for most of that time, she did it in secret.

"I worked for the government most of my life, I was a school teacher, I was teaching elementary school," says Francey, who now uses cannabis for recreational and medical reasons. For a long time, she even kept the secret from her son.

CannTrust Holdings Inc. ("CannTrust" or the "Company", TSX: TRST), one of Canada's leading licensed producers and most trusted brands of cannabis, announced today that the company has signed an agreement with the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC), operating as the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), to supply a broad range of adult-use products from all three of the Company's new recreational cannabis brands – liiv, Xscape and Synr.g. The Company brings more than 40 years of pharmaceutical and healthcare experience to the cannabis industry and is applying this knowledge to its recreational cannabis products.

The Canadian minister of agriculture, Lawrence MacAuley, told the Canadian Press that cannabis will shortly be administered like any other crop—which makes cannabis growers in Canada eligible for aid, grants, assistance, encouragement of innovation and protection of the environment, and everything else that growers of soy, corn, zucchini, or apples get.

When Canada's marijuana legalization bill received 

Come mid-October 2018, both medical and recreational cannabis will be legal across Canada.

When first introduced, the Trudeau government made it clear that the intent of legalization is to stamp out the country’s entrenched black market — one-third of which is supplied by organized crime.