As the cannabis sector sets its sights on the still-thriving illicit market, many critics noticed unlicensed cannabis is a lot more illegal for some people (particularly Black and Indigenous people) than it is for, say, Bonify or CannTrust.
Vancouver Sun, GrowthOp
- Journalist Amanda Siebert said little of the $274M the federal government earmarked for cannabis enforcement was spent on licensed companies that broke cannabis laws.
Twitter-@amanda_siebert
Cracking down on illicit cannabis (and illicit delivery services) remains a priority both among police and US border guards.
Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, StratCann,
- After nearly 20 years, the Ontario Provincial Police and Canadian Border Services Agency finally arrested an American man charged with growing 200 plants in Northern Ontario in 2001.
Global News
Celebrity litigator Marie Henein–currently representing shareholders in a class-action suit against CannTrust–described prohibition of one of the means by which “the state weaponizes an unjust criminal justice system.”
Globe and Mail
- LP FIGR debuted The FIGR Fund, by which the public can nominate a different company with Black, Indigenous, or people-of-colour ownership every month for investment.
FIGR
