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Ottawa will release an expert report on legalizing and regulating marijuana Tuesday, the federal health department said. The task force's report will be released in the morning from Ottawa, according to a statement emailed by the department. The review ordered earlier this year by Prime...

Justin Trudeau's task force to legalize marijuana has completed its report on the issue and said it will be released to the public sometime before Christmas. While Vancouver dispensary operators anxiously wait to learn if they'll be allowed to remain in business once a new legal framework...

A task force which has been looking at the legalization of marijuana over the last several months, has announced it has completed the research phase, and will release a report within the next few weeks. The Federal Government is working on legislation to legalize pot by the spring of 2017...

Ottawa - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet had expected to receive findings from a task force studying the legalization of marijuana, but the document is stuck in translation limbo. The team behind the report says it will be given to ministers and the public when it is in available in...

A task force of experts studying how the federal government should legalize recreational pot will make its recommendations Wednesday, but the public will have to wait to find out what's in the highly-anticipated report. It will be released publicly "at a later date," according to a...

Ottawa's march toward a controlled market for legal marijuana in Canada takes a major step forward this week with the delivery of a task force report that includes advice on a minimum age, product warnings and measures to prevent drug-impaired driving. The report on pot legalization will be...

The Borough Marijuana Task Force met Tuesday night and decided to permit commercial marijuana growth in certain residential districts. The motion was to allow residential cultivation permits with a conditional use permit in RR, RR1 and RR2, which are rural areas, and prohibit it in R1, R2, and...

The Paso Robles City Council voted Tuesday night to create a task force to address the city's medical marijuana regulations. Mayor Steve Martin and councilmen Steve Gregory, John Hamon and Jim Reed voted in favor of the task force. Councilman Fred Strong was absent, attending another meeting on...

The Paso Robles City Council voted Tuesday night to create a task force to address the city's medical marijuana regulations. Mayor Steve Martin and councilmen Steve Gregory, John Hamon and Jim Reed voted in favor of the task force. Councilman Fred Strong was absent, attending another meeting on...

Dr Ware gave a presentation on the task force's process thus far, then took nearly an hour of questions from the audience at the Vancouver Lift Cannabis Expo We were incredibly lucky at the Vancouver Lift Cannabis Expo this past weekend to have heard from legalization and regulation task...

Changes to the Canada Pension Plan? A piddly 47 responses. Input on the most inspirational Canadians? About 12,000 people weighed in. But public online consultation about legalizing marijuana netted 30,000 responses, proving pot stokes the passions of the Canadian public. (Though not quite as...

How did someone who has called marijuana a "scourge", who has obstructed access to medical marijuana to sick and dying Canadians in pain, who has dismissed marijuana users as "stupid", and who works for a law firm that wants to see its clients get a monopoly on legal weed, ever get to chair a...

Delivering on a campaign promise, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to introduce legislation next spring that will legalize the production, distribution, and possession of marijuana for recreational purposes. In the meantime, a government-appointed Task Force on Marijuana Legalization...

A Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer recently named to a task force on legalizing and regulating marijuana says one of the biggest hurdles they face is dealing with impairment. "I do believe it's going to be a big concern," Supt. Marlene Jesso told CBC Radio's St. John's Morning Show...

Vancouver — Marijuana advocates say the government is not listening to the people who made legalization a reality. More details were released this week about the marijuana task force. Jodie Emery says the Liberal government has started to use the same prohibition rhetoric as the Harper...

World-renowned pain specialist and medical cannabis researcher Dr. Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), has been nominated vice-chair of an important federal task force that will provide guidance to the...

The federal government is launching a task force to study the legalization and regulation marijuana use. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says a task force has been struck. It's comprised of experts in public health, substance abuse, law enforcement and justice. "It is important...

Almost two weeks ago, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to secure her party's nomination for president. It's an historical and monumental event, and something that deserves to be celebrated, regardless of your preferred candidate. To see a woman rise to this level of power means we're...

The Ohio House of Representatives' Medical Marijuana Task Force ("Task Force") reconvened at the state capitol on Thursday, February 11, 2016, and once again members of Benesch were in attendance. The Task Force heard its first testimony regarding the medicinal value of cannabis, and the...

The chairman of a task force charged with exploring medical marijuana legalization in Ohio is emphasizing that the panel's process will be fair and open. The task force met briefly for the first time Thursday. It's led by Republican Rep. Kirk Schuring of Canton and includes other Ohio House...