If you've been keeping up with Bill C-45, you'll know that the Liberal government wants Canadians to wait up to a whole year after legalization is implemented to be able to legally purchase and use cannabis concentrates and edibles.

While the feds claim they need more time to create legislation (when we all know they could easily lift ideas from places like Colorado or Washington), one B.C.-based licensed producer has found a way around the delay, at least as far as medical patients are concerned.

Canna Farms Limited, a licensed producer based in Hope, announced yesterday that it had created Canada's first legal "whole-plant" cannabis concentrate. 

With the legalization of recreational marijuana use on the horizon, many are wondering what the impacts will be on municipalities. To that end, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities recently released a set of guidelines for municipalities and member organizations, on some of the issues which may come up. The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association along with the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities are members of the FCM.

Gordon Barnhart is the president of SUMA. He explained the idea of the guidelines is to cover a number of topics.

Thousands of Canadians across the country are preparing to attend 4-20 events this year, even though cannabis consumption in Canada will soon be legal. But in Calgary, the privilege of smoking up in public will not be extended to everyone of legal age — not on 4-20, and not following legalization.

Three companies are seriously considering building plants to grow recreational cannabis in the Leduc region in a move that should create 200 local jobs, new research indicates.

With legalization of non-medicinal pot expected this summer, the area south of Edmonton will have an estimated 10,000 people consuming cannabis by 2023, according to a study released Thursday by the Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Association.

The report, based on Statistics Canada information and other data, predicts legal marijuana will capture more than 90 per cent of the Alberta market because the average price will be less than 25 cents a gram higher than its illegal competitors.

Legal, regulated marijuana retail sales are coming to Canada very soon, but lighting up your newly purchased Ontario Cannabis Store spliff in your condo or apartment could be — or may already be — prohibited (depending on where you live).

Many condo boards have yet to determine how to cope with cannabis use in the building.

The first quarter and beyond saw marijuana stocks rocked off of the high perch they reached near the end of last year. Price run-ups, likely caused by the synchronized excitement of legalization efforts between California and Canada kept pot stock investors giddily wondering to what heights the sector would reach.

For those in the marijuana culture, “4/20” is the highest holiday.

For close to 40 years, April 20  -- the 20th day of the fourth month-- has been the day to celebrate all things marijuana and to call for loosening of what many say are outdated laws that ban the substance. But the origins of the day have been as hazy as the clouds of smoke that waft from the hundreds who gather in public spaces to celebrate it. Here’s a look at how “Weed Day” began and where it’s headed now.

Why 4/20?

Though “420” is often used in pot parlance, few are sure how the term became rooted in popular culture. It’s fairly certain that the word began in California and spread from there, but why remains a mystery.

The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the Canadian cannabis industry. When the current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was on the campaign trail, one of his biggest promises was to legalize recreational marijuana across the entire country. He is making good on that promise with the government on track to legalize recreational marijuana by the summer. Bill C-45 was approved in principal in March and is now being looked at by a number of other committees for approval.

If everything goes as planned, Canada will be the second country in the world to legalize the consumption and sale of recreational marijuana. Uruguay was the first to make the leap in 2014.

'What this ruling really is, is a missed opportunity to liberalize trade,' Calgary economist says

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on interprovincial beer imports has sparked fears that provinces and territories will be free to impose restrictions on cannabis flowing over their borders at a time the industry is in its early stages of growth.

In its ruling on the so-called free-the-beer case, the top court said provinces and territories can restrict imports of goods, as long as their intent isn't to impede trade.

Despite that proviso, economists said there is enough wiggle room in the decision allowing provinces to impose restrictions on the legal trade of cannabis.

It has at least one local pot company worried.

Less fish, more 4/20 if one local entrepreneur has his way

Cannabis could be coming to the rescue of a Newfoundland fishing community that's been without an economic centre since Hurricane Igor laid waste to the area in 2010. 

Port Union's old Ocean Choice International fish plant could soon be used to plant marijuana. 

The disused building is in the final stages of a sale to local businessman Daniel Porter, who is planning to turn it into a cannabis growing facility for medicinal and recreational pot.

"This means the world to me," Porter said.

"I love that I can come home and create work and have an impact on the community … it affects people's lives and children's lives, and it creates a massive employment spinoff."