With legislation legalizing marijuana expected in the spring, Eastern Ontario’s largest craft brewery is rolling around the idea of expanding into the recreational cannabis industry, its chief executive said.

“I don’t want to say categorically no and I don’t want to say categorically yes,” Mr. Beauchesne said. “If there is a way to do it in a way that’s responsible and fun – because for us, if it’s not fun, we just don’t bother – then maybe.”

A report from this past July shows a continued decline in cannabis-related arrests in Canada over the past four years, while arrests for drugs like methamphetamines, heroin, and ecstasy increased. While cannabis-related arrests continue to make up the bulk of drug arrests in Canada, they also are more likely to be stayed or withdrawn or to receive a fine rather than custody if found guilty.

The report also shows that cannabis-related arrests account for 79% of youth drug crime (A decline of 19% from 2014). These decreases are most pronounced in Ontario (-16%) and British Columbia (-17%), although declines were reported in all provinces and territories, except for Nunavut and PEI. Nunavut saw a 9% increase and Prince Edward Island’s rates remained the same.

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Canopy Growth Corp. jumped to a record high, and other Canadian cannabis growers gained, after unveiling a line of marijuana products for the domestic market in a partnership with rapper Snoop Dogg.

The Smiths Falls, Ontario-based company soared as much as 17 per cent and was up 9.2 per cent to $5.44 at 11:12 a.m. in Toronto trading. The shares have climbed 84 per cent this year, heading for a third straight annual gain.

Several marijuana strains curated by "cannabis connoisseur" Snoop Dogg are now available in Canada through the Smiths Falls, Ont., company Tweed, which announced a partnership with the rapper and businessman earlier this year.

Sunset, ocean view and palm tree CBD will be the first three strains available in Canada. The offering will expand over time, according to a media release issued by Tweed on Thursday.

They're expected to be available later this month.

"Like hip hop, cannabis is as much a lifestyle as it is a culture," Snoop Dogg is quoted saying in the release. "Leafs by Snoop is an expression of my experience with that culture over decades on the scene.

Police in the Niagara Region say Health Canada medical marijuana licences are being used to hide illegal grow-ops, after 18 people were arrested and more than 4,000 plants seized in three raids.

Niagara Regional Police investigated over the past 13 months and executed three search warrants at 1651 Lakeshore Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.

Eighteen people were arrested and 4,015 marijuana plants seized, after police said the grow-ops were using their Health Canada issued licence to hide thousands of illegal plants.

The most recent raid occurred on Monday and police said the suspects arrested were “shrouding their criminal activities” by using legal medical marijuana licences to “over produce.”

Canada “could be to cannabis what France is to wine,” Toronto coffee shop owner Alan Gertner said in June. He was speaking at The Economist’s Canada Summit, and the aspirational analogy resonated far and high. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “absolutely disagreed” with Gertner’s assertion—but only because of the high “calibre of Canadian wines,” reported The Huffington Post Canada.

Solvent-based cannabis extracts, often referred to as hash oils or dabs, have completely dominated cannabis concentrate markets over the last several years. With the advancements in solvent extraction technologies and methodologies, new products are constantly circulating the shelves of dispensaries.

A college in the Atlantic Canadian province of New Brunswick plans to institute a programme on marijuana cultivation so that students can be trained to work at local companies that produce the drug, a school official says.

The French-language College Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick will launch the course sometime next year, said Michel Doucet, executive director of continuing education and customized learning.

Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned last year on a promise to legalise recreational marijuana and the government has said it would introduce legislation by the spring of 2017.

Drivers in Ontario who get caught high on drugs can now temporarily lose their driver’s licenses on the spot, courtesy of a new law that went into effect October 2.

If a motorist fails a roadside sobriety test due to drug consumption, they will lose their license for three days – the same consequence for drunk driving. The motorist also has to pay a $180 license reinstatement fee to the provincial government.

"It's great because we now have more tools for us to do our job," Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, spokesperson for the Ontario Provincial Police, Highway Safety Division, told CBC News.