Prohibitionist Group Says DEA Announcement on Cannabis Rescheduling Coming “Very Soon”

Prohibitionist Group Says DEA Announcement on Cannabis Rescheduling Coming “Very Soon”

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Smart Approaches to Marijuana leaders believe the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) may soon make an announcement on marijuana rescheduling. The DEA has spent the last few months chewing over a recommendation made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) to move marijuana to Schedule III from its current classification.

Now officials of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), led by president Kevin Sabet, believe the agency will announce its results soon, following chatter from different sources. This has been heard for some months now, with sources mostly leaning toward pro-reform.

In the interview, Sabet also revealed that he was skeptical about the revised FDA review process on drug scheduling. This has been reiterated by a number of Republican legislators. This is in addition to discussing prior scheduling petitions that took years to conclude, only for the federal government to deny proposals to recategorize cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act.

In this case, however, the scheduling review was issued as a directive by President Joseph Biden himself.

Additionally, one DEA official recently stated that at times, it took up to six months for the agency to conclude an analysis of recommendations given by health officials. As it stands, this is less than the amount of time it has been since the DEA started its current evaluation of marijuana’s scheduling.

The prohibition group has long been against cannabis reform and has worked with Republican legislators to discourage the agency from rescheduling the drug. Additionally, SAM has urged its supporters to talk to their representatives in congress about opposing cannabis banking reforms, rescheduling and proposals to legalize the drug.

A week ago, a caucus of 21 congressional legislators asked that the DEA remove cannabis from its current classification and recognized that the DEA could be dealing with disagreements on the issue at an internal scale. This point references a recent report, which noted that officials at the agency were at loggerheads with the current administration over the scheduling review. Thus far, the agency has offered no on-the-record comment about the status of the review, with the White House also declining to give a statement on the timeline.

In other news, the FDA’s head stated that there was no reason for the Drug Enforcement Administration to “put off” making a decision on cannabis scheduling. In March, HSS secretary Xavier Becerra defended the recommendation made by his department during a committee hearing at the senate. In his statement, Becerra told one marijuana lobbyist that he needed to pay the Drug Enforcement Administration a visit and ask officials about the timing of the decision.

The entire marijuana industry, including major players such as Curaleaf Holdings Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF), eagerly awaits the DEA’s announcement of its decision on the classification of marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act. The comment period that will follow is likely to uncover more information about what the industry thinks of the decision that the federal agency will have made.

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Cannabis Jobs Update – May 2024

Cannabis Jobs Update – May 2024

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Want to work in Canada’s cannabis industry? There are always many different positions offered, from entry-level to executive, from Cultivation to Labs, from Budtending to Brand Reps; there’s an array of jobs available at any given time. 

Check out our May 2024 cannabis jobs roundup below for a small snapshot of the numerous positions available in Canada’s cannabis industry. 

Retail Cannabis

Cannabis retailer Farmer Jane Cannabis Co. is looking for a Marketing Manager for their store in Regina, SK.

Alberta’s Lake City Cannabis is also hiring

In Ontario, Sativa Bliss Cannabis is hiring Keyholders, an Assistant Manager, and a Store Manager for their new location opening in Mississauga. 

Canna Cabana is hiring a Retail Shift Leader in Tisdale, SK, a Retail Shift Leader in Calgary, AB, and a Retail Assistant Store Manager in Morden, MB.

Boss Cannabis in Port Coquitlam, BC, is hiring a Sales Associate

Public Sector

The Ontario Cannabis Store is hiring a Senior Communications Advisor.

The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) is hiring an Operations Manager at its Customer Care Centre for its cannabis operations in Burnaby, BC.

La Société québécoise du cannabis est à la recherche d’un Directeur Régional pour la région de Laval, Laurentides et Abitibi.

Cannabis Producers/Brands

Cronos Group is looking for a Production Manager and a Research Assistant at their Collingwood, ON facility. 

Cannabis processor Tricanna Industries Inc. is hiring a Sales Associate on Vancouver Island.

Weed Me Inc. is looking for a Territory Manager in Manitoba. 

Cannabis producer Motif Labs is hiring a Supply Planner for their facility in Aylmer, ON. Motif is also looking to hire a Distillation Technician at the same location. 

Heritage Cannabis is looking to hire a Brand Ambassador in Vancouver, BC. 

Auxley is hiring a Creative Lead in Toronto, ON.

Pure Sunfarms is looking for a Technical Development Manager in Delta, BC.

A hiring agency is recruiting for a member of the Production Team for a medical cannabis provider in Moncton, NB.

SNLD Inc is looking for a Production Labourer for its operation in Kelowna, BC.

And last but not least, Canopy Growth is hiring a Senior Regulatory Affair Officer in Ontario.


The Elite are Mutants

The Elite are Mutants

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The Elite are Mutants

Physicist and former military expert on Microwave Radiation, Barrie Trower has stated — “There are no safe levels of radiation.” After watching Barry Trower’s scary video (link below), it became clear to me that the elite and their techno-nerd minions are mutants. Trower’s report includes the effects of cell phones on the brainwaves of children. Can we conclude that because their brains are not functioning in the same way as the rest of us, people who are constantly being bombarded by these pernicious EMRs no longer think as ‘normal’ human beings.

The brain of anyone who is surrounded by microwaves, RF radio frequencies, etc., confined in ‘control’ rooms, military, IT, financial, or whatever environment bombards them 24/7 with EMR electromagnetic radiation — is not going to function the same way as a brain in harmony with the planet & Nature. Imagine living in one of those ‘smart’ houses where you are submerged in an ocean of WiFi high-tech remote-control of pretty much everything, from lighting and heating to the security gate, baby monitors, CCTV cameras and audiovisual equipment.

Neurological consequences

Contemplating the destructive effects from EMR on our brains reminded me of the book ‘The Shallows, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains’ by Nicholas Carr: “The Net’s cacophony of stimuli short circuits both conscious and unconscious thought, preventing our mind from thinking deeply or creatively. …Heavy use has neurological consequences. …as the time we spend hopping across links, crowds out the time we devote to quiet reflection and contemplation, the [brain] circuits that support those old intellectual functions and pursuits weaken and begin to break apart. The brain recycles the disused neurons and synapses…”

Impede comprehension & retention

One wonders how this kind of entrainment by the machine will damage our capacity for any deep thinking. This ‘redirection of our mental resources’ and ‘making judgements that are imperceptible to us’ as Nicholas Carr says, have been shown to ‘impede comprehension and retention’. Carr quotes the German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, who back in the 1950s said: “…the looming tide of [the] technological could so captivate, bewitch, dazzle and beguile man that calculative [quantitative] thinking may someday come to be accepted and practiced as the only way of thinking.”

The frenzy of quantity over quality, jumping from one focus to the next, using only a small part of the brain may destroy our capacity for quiet contemplation and meditation. The state of a calm and attentive mind cultivated in silence is the only source of all genuine creativity and innovation. Are these new masters of the universe, who we are in fact allowing to transform the very way our brains operate — are they true masters of their own consciousness or are they mutants?

Geoengineering & Chemtrails

Most human beings cannot believe that anyone could be so evil as to poison their own populations, permanently destroying the land & water, killing animals, birds & insects. This is the primary reason the majority still refuse to believe — even when we have seen chemtrails with our own eyes — and continue to deny that the skies are being sprayed with toxic aluminum, barium, strontium, and nano-particulates that suppress the immune system, make us sick, depressed, and cause dementia and ADHD. What monsters would do such a terrible thing? Perhaps understanding that EMR electromagnetic radiation mutates brain waves is the answer. Is the elite is so immersed in destructive radiation, so cut off from nature’s healing frequencies, and so obsessed with their own power games and greed that they no longer are ‘human’ in the sense we have always understood. Has the pervasive canopy of EMR destroyed the capacity for compassion and respect for life in the elite?

The ‘signal’ to OBEY!

Consider the H. G. Wells story/film “The Time Machine” that depicts a future where young humans are bred for food for the mutants in control. These young clueless innocents are allowed to live in a fool’s paradise until they are summoned by a ‘signal’ — perhaps emitted from a microwave tower — a ‘signal’ they have been entrained to obey. Obedience to the call of the frequency emitter draws them into an inescapable cavern where they are slaughtered for food or used as breeders for the reproduction of the mutant’s food supply. Is this where we are headed?

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The Power of The Wise Fool

The Power of The Wise Fool

The Power of The Wise Fool

By Gary Z. McGee

“The wise man pretends to be a fool.” ~Shakespeare

On a long enough timeline, all timelines disintegrate. The road to self-mastery is a journey not a destination. It’s a process not a result. It’s ultimately a fool’s errand that only a wise man can understand in hindsight.

You either learn and surrender, or you learn and get stuck. If you learn and surrender, then you are going through the painful motions of humiliating your multiplicity of false selves. If you learn and get stuck (become content, believe in a certain idea forsaking all others, or escape into a comfort zone), then you are taking the easy route and honoring your multiplicity of false selves to the extent that your authentic self gets buried in all the “knowledge” you’ve gained.

In order not to be buried by one’s knowledge, a wise man pretends to be a fool. He flips the script on dogma, turns the tables on politics, and stretches the limits of his comfort zone. He transforms boundaries into horizons and inverts knowledge into compost.

But then he goes one step further. He becomes a wise fool.

If, as Shakespeare said, “the wise man pretends to be a fool,” then the wise fool pretends to be a man.

What does it mean to pretend to be a man? It means getting out of one’s own way. It means getting ahead of the curve of the human condition. It means outflanking culture. It means becoming a force of nature first, a man second. It means no hesitation, no fear, and full surrender to the terrible process of rebirth.

As Robert Greene said, “Hesitation puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them. Once you understand this, you will find it essential to overcome your natural timidity and practice the art of audacity.”

A wise fool pretending to be a man is a bolt of lightning in a field of dry grass. It’s a Dionysian breath of fresh air in a stagnant Apollonian atmosphere. It’s a lion waking up from a nap surrounded by a herd of sheep pretending to be asleep. It’s a beacon of darkness piercing through the blinding light of cultural conditioning. It’s a trickster dance trampling over the fragile eggshells of outdated order.

As Sun Tzu suggested “let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

When outdated gods need to die, the wise fool is the archetype needed to get past the fortified ramparts of your cognitive dissonance. When a profoundly sick society is tricking you into being well-adjusted to it, the wise fool is the healthy rebellion that reconditions your cultural conditioning. When the nightmare needs to be rearranged, the wise fool is the alarm clock that awakens you from pretending to be asleep.

A wise fool pretends to be a man to maintain the sacred order of the cosmos. He is born into death to be reborn. He learns how to unlearn to relearn. His mastery is recycled into re-mastery. His thesis is balanced by antithesis into synthesis into meta-synthesis. As Bruce Lee powerfully stated, the wise fool, “learns the Form, masters the Form, forgets the Form.” It is precisely because he knows he knows nothing that he can know more.

The wise fool cultivates Beginner’s Mind and never allowed the Master’s Complex to dig its claws in. He honors the life-death-rebirth process of self-enlightenment. He encourages the “skyhook” of curiosity lest the “anchor” of certainty hold him back.

A wise fool pretends to be a man to keep the cycle going, to keep the journey ahead of the destination, to keep the Truth Quest ahead of the “truth.” He trumps mastery with tomfoolery. He trumps hard work with playing even harder. He burns down his mastery and spreads the ashes so that the Phoenix of a new idea might emerge.

A wise fool pretends to be a man because deep down inside he realizes that everything is connected to everything else. He is just as much in the universe as the universe is in him. He is a speck in the cosmos, but he is also the entire cosmos in a speck. He is life itself, living itself through him. He is the universe perceiving itself, and so he pretends to be a man when, really, he is all things. He is a wolf, a condor, a whale. He is a misfit, a rebel, a gamechanger. He is the sun, the moon, the shooting star.

A wise fool pretending to be a man outflanks the human condition through absolute nonattachment. Having transformed his knowledge into compost, he is free from its so-called truth. He buries it in himself, a seed, a muscle memory. He soars above it, savoring the delicious solitude of knowing that he does not know.

A wise fool pretending to be a man understands that God is just an abstraction of an abstraction and that we are all just accidents waiting to happen. We’re a Phoenix without a nest. We had to get lost to be found. We had to be burned to come alive. We had to be tossed from heaven with Death as a compass to find our way through the hell that leads to rebirth.

As Jung said, “The Spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of small humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.” The wise fool understands this and humiliates his multitude of false selves in order to give birth to his own authenticity.

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About the Author:

Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.

This article (The Power of The Wise Fool) was originally created and published by Self-inflicted Philosophy and is printed here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Gary Z McGee and self-inflictedphilosophy.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this statement of copyright.

The Last Human Election

The Last Human Election

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The Last Human Election

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A.I. is here, shaping the world in which we live. 

If you utilize spam filters, online shopping (e-commerce), social media, Tele-health, Gaming, Robotics, Smart™ phones and appliances, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, then A.I. shapes your world.

What is A.I.?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is machine-displayed intelligence that simulates human behavior or thinking and can be trained to solve specific problems. AI is a combination of Machine Learning techniques and Deep Learning.

A.I. Technology is nothing new. Twenty years ago, Google started using machine learning, and 10 years ago, it helped spur rapid progress in AI using deep learning. Since 1865, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been at the center of advances in communications technology, from telegraphy to satellites, mobile phones, and the Internet.

Not only does A.I. create fake virtual faces in the media, but it can s-elect presidents by digitally manipulating the vote.

Since the 2000 U.S. national election, and the stunt of “the hanging chad,” A.I. technology has manipulated votes with or without people’s knowledge.  Internationally, A.I. manipulated the 2009 Presidential election in Iran, the 2012 Presidential election in Mexico, and the Kenyan election in 2017.  Already, A.I. is already making a nightmare of 2024 political campaigns.  India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the U.S. are all heading to the polls.

“Experts” propose that the 2024 election will be the last human election.  Self-appointed expert, Elon Musk, thinks an A.I. candidate could win in 2032.

In 2012 (or was it 2015), the Queen of England announced, in a Christmas message to the people, “Enjoy your final Christmas.” In the article, she indicated that ‘a great supernatural evil was sweeping across Europe, greater than her own.’ Soon after release, both video and article disappeared off the Internet. What did the Queen mean? Was the message meant to mark the end of an era?

Posthumanism

Anyone can generate a virtual face. Simply go to This Person Does Not Exist. The average voter has no idea if the candidates are real or virtual. Campaigns already post false A.I. generated photos and videos of opponents.

While Generation Z (1997-2012) grew up with iPads as babysitters, and easily accept the notion of A.I. to create the Metaverse, a false reality leaves many people unaware of a biodigital convergence congealing day by day.  What is a Biodigital Convergence?

the convergence of engineering, nanotechnology, biotechnology information technology and cognitive science.

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The “experts” say, “Essentially, you take something that’s biological and something that’s digital, and you smush them together.”

Experts are expert at withholding details, while mocking everyone else with simplistic definitions. They know the velocity of change for A.I. is exponential with thousands of papers published every year. What they claim today, changes tomorrow.

Computation and computing are the only means for keeping pace with radical change. That’s where human capital comes in. Human capital leads to Posthumanism.

The Name of the Game is A.I.

Appropriately, the A.I. surveillance model is being beta-tested at the Paris Olympic Games.

In a biodigital, virtual reality, everything is standardized for integration across all sectors—from biomedical to environmental: bioengineering, biomedical devices, molecular farming, artificial organs, stem cell research and environmental monitoring.  From “molecular farming” to “cellular agriculture,” the system is an inversion of Nature and natural systems.

Humans will interface with the Metaverse through tokenization and a future tokenized economy, where cash is no longer king, and credit cards (encryption) are obsolete. What is Tokenization?

Tokenization is the process of creating a digital representation of a real thing. 

A tokenized economy uses digital wallets. Wallets do everything from purchase goods to vote in virtual elections of candidates, who may or may not be real.  All is part of a bio-hybrid computational game. Tokenization represents a nested architecture, meaning a game within a game within a game.  All games lead to a computational model called a Cognitive City, in 2030. What is a Cognitive City?

Cognitive technology supports computing that operates at a higher level by connecting devices together (including humans). It is about being proactive and predictive.

After The Election

After the 2024 election, there remain 6 years on the road to 2030, when the Biodigital Convergence will take effect.  The digital economy will merge humans to A.I. to create a superhuman, using a platform called Web3, or blockchain. What is Web3?

The moniker is a convenient shorthand for the project of rewiring how the web works, using blockchain to change how information is stored, shared, and owned.

How do humans relate to each other in a bio-hybrid computational Metaverse?

Humans find their digital twins in the Cloud mind simulation. This launches humanity into a digital-twin simulation. Headsets are not included. Everyone will have a DigiID and Digi badge to participate. Everyone on Earth will have access to technology that will allow wireless communication, any time, any place.

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A digital-twin simulation encompasses a Global Brain. Think Borg! 

I am Locutus, of Borg. Resistance… is futile. Your life as it has been is over. — Captain Picard, season-three finale of Star Trek: Next Generation TV Series

Borg is also a cluster management tool used by Google.

A Global brain is defined as a “neuroscience-inspired and futurological vision of the planetary information and communications technology network that interconnects all humans and their technological artifacts.”

In a Borg society, there is no need for an identity. A global brain is “decentralized sovereignty,” to “solve the problem of identity.” This collective participation is framed as “democratic innovations.”

Token engineering within the global brain means the networked systems of the brain will run on different encoded tokens … it goes beyond the typical digital currency conversation. For this to work, the human body must become a wire.

After the 2024 election, a democratic Republic becomes an “augmented democracy” or “direct democracy,” where votes are outsourced to an algorithm and state representatives become digital A.I. agents. Eventually, humans becomes Posthuman on an anti-human platform.  What is a digital agent?

That might look something like this: Voters are connected to an individualized “digital agent” that would collect information on our needs, views, and politics via the data we feed into social platforms and search. This would essentially work as a political Spotify. — Cesar Hidalgo, director of the Collective Learning group at MIT Media Lab

What happens to the human brain if information can disappear off the Internet? Or if the Internet is hacked?

Two Worlds

Humans face two worlds ahead: 1) a consensus biodigital reality, and 2) an outlier, natural reality.

Increasingly, people will separate themselves by living in one reality or the other, based on how they see the world. Currently, we get a taste of how consciousness is being managed by social media, where our digital twin interfaces with the internet.

The world of Gaming and digital tokens takes the Game to the next level, where culture is an artifact on a ledger called the Metaverse. Game Masters turn life into a game that is managed and tracked by a computational model. This model drives the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Freedom becomes FreeDumb.

All the candidates for the 2024 U.S. presidency are pushing the path to “digital sovereignty.” The coming cyber-physical system is bipartisan. Political stripes do not matter. Digital twinning; the human connection to A.I., will be law.

There is no longer a democratic Republic to protect and defend. There is no “lesser of two evils” to compare in elections. There is one united evil; the UniParty. Democracy as a “super organism” means that the people have been sold a bill of goods! Politics is a mind trap.

The “Independent” candidate and his running mate promote a “sustainable” blockchain, using token engineering for everything from health, to freedom, and nature. See this candidate speaking at a march 2024 conference promoting DigiID, cybernetics, and blockchain. The current president announced plans for A.I. actions over 180 days following an Executive Order.

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The other world-the Natural world- does not require a DigiID, tokens, or headset for viewing or participating. Nature functions under Natural Law and recognizes that freedom is inborn and embodied. Cash is the accepted currency. So use cash whenever possible. Find out where your candidate stands on A.I. and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG).

If we can all use cash, build cash back up and keep checks going, if you have cash and checks, they cannot go to an all-digital financial system. Find out who is leading the way in your state, and see what you can do to support them. – Catherine Austin Fitts, April 28, 2024For those of us who know, and see the coming of a new era, we have a responsibility to engage in conversation so people can make an informed choice going forward. Does “the last human election” begin the fast train toward a Posthuman world?

Week in Weed – May 4, 2024

Week in Weed – May 4, 2024

May the Fourth Week in Weed Be With You.

This week at StratCann, we looked at the most recent quarterly sales report from the BC LDB for the first three months of 2024 and shared a guest post looking at how the recent news about what changes to US cannabis laws can mean for Canada.

We also looked at some of the clones and seeds available across Canada for home growers gearing up for the 2024 season, and an announcement from Apollo Green, who is making Humboldt Seed Company cultivars available to the international market.

In Manitoba, two businesses were caught off guard by the province’s recent “pause” on “controlled access” retail cannabis licences

In financial news, we looked at Cannara and Decibel’s most recent quarterly reports.

A court in BC rejected an appeal from a retail cannabis applicant who was denied by the community of Salt Spring Island.

And lastly, we shared our profile of BC’s Trichome Consulting Services.

In other cannabis news…

A graduate thesis paper from a student at the University of Saskatchewan compares edible cannabis regulations in the US and Canada through a lens of public health and safety.

New research from the University of Toronto says Cannabis users might not be as lazy and unmotivated as popular stereotypes suggest. Who’d a thunk! 

Canopy Growth Corporation is expected to receive approximately US $50 million in gross proceeds and exchange approximately C$27.5 million of existing debt maturing in September 2025 for a new senior unsecured convertible debenture as part of an exchange and subscription agreement with a single institutional investor.

Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced, along with MedReleaf Australia, the introduction of a new range of dried cannabis flower products for doctors to prescribe to patients in Australia.

Simply Solventless Concentrates Ltd. released its 2023 annual results, with net revenue of $6,191,646 and net and comprehensive income of $1,040,316. The company sells under Simply Solvents, Frootyhooty, Astro Lab, and Lamplighter. The company says it has now eliminated all long-term debt.

Organigram’s CEO Greg Engel wants the National Cannabis Working Group to push Ottawa to safeguard Canada’s cannabis industry.

Tilray announced the release of a range of new cannabis beverages in Canada.

SNDL Inc., through its joint venture with SunStream Bancorp Inc., intends to proceed with the acquisition of equity positions in US cannabis assets

The owner of an Indigenous cannabis shop called 8th Fire Co. in Georgina, Ontario will “vigorously defend” his case during an upcoming court session on May 8 in Newmarket. He is seeking to have his charges withdrawn and the cannabis and cash seized by police in a raid returned, as well as affirm what he says is his right as an Indigenous person to sell cannabis off-reserve without a provincial licence.

International Cannabis

The biggest news this week, though, was probably the confirmation that the US DEA will in fact be moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III. The proposal must first be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, then undergo a public comment period and review from an administrative judge, which might take a while. 

The announcement caused pot stocks, including Canadian ones, to “jump”, as well as a big spike in headlines overplaying said “spike.” 


Week in Weed – May 4, 2024

Week in Weed – May 3, 2024

May the Fourth Week in Weed Be With You.

This week at StratCann, we looked at the most recent quarterly sales report from the BC LDB for the first three months of 2024 and shared a guest post looking at how the recent news about what changes to US cannabis laws can mean for Canada.

We also looked at some of the clones and seeds available across Canada for home growers gearing up for the 2024 season, and an announcement from Apollo Green, who is making Humboldt Seed Company cultivars available to the international market.

In Manitoba, two businesses were caught off guard by the province’s recent “pause” on “controlled access” retail cannabis licences

In financial news, we looked at Cannara and Decibel’s most recent quarterly reports.

A court in BC rejected an appeal from a retail cannabis applicant who was denied by the community of Salt Spring Island.

And lastly, we shared our profile of BC’s Trichome Consulting Services.

In other cannabis news…

A graduate thesis paper from a student at the University of Saskatchewan compares edible cannabis regulations in the US and Canada through a lens of public health and safety.

New research from the University of Toronto says Cannabis users might not be as lazy and unmotivated as popular stereotypes suggest. Who’d a thunk! 

Canopy Growth Corporation is expected to receive approximately US $50 million in gross proceeds and exchange approximately C$27.5 million of existing debt maturing in September 2025 for a new senior unsecured convertible debenture as part of an exchange and subscription agreement with a single institutional investor.

Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced, along with MedReleaf Australia, the introduction of a new range of dried cannabis flower products for doctors to prescribe to patients in Australia.

Simply Solventless Concentrates Ltd. released its 2023 annual results, with net revenue of $6,191,646 and net and comprehensive income of $1,040,316. The company sells under Simply Solvents, Frootyhooty, Astro Lab, and Lamplighter. The company says it has now eliminated all long-term debt.

Organigram’s CEO Greg Engel wants the National Cannabis Working Group to push Ottawa to safeguard Canada’s cannabis industry.

Tilray announced the release of a range of new cannabis beverages in Canada.

SNDL Inc., through its joint venture with SunStream Bancorp Inc., intends to proceed with the acquisition of equity positions in US cannabis assets

The owner of an Indigenous cannabis shop called 8th Fire Co. in Georgina, Ontario will “vigorously defend” his case during an upcoming court session on May 8 in Newmarket. He is seeking to have his charges withdrawn and the cannabis and cash seized by police in a raid returned, as well as affirm what he says is his right as an Indigenous person to sell cannabis off-reserve without a provincial licence.

International Cannabis

The biggest news this week, though, was probably the confirmation that the US DEA will in fact be moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III. The proposal must first be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, then undergo a public comment period and review from an administrative judge, which might take a while. 

The announcement caused pot stocks, including Canadian ones, to “jump”, as well as a big spike in headlines overplaying said “spike.” 


Week in Weed – May 4, 2024

Manitoba businesses caught off guard by province’s recent “pause” on “controlled access” retail cannabis licences

Two Manitoba businesses say they were caught off guard by a recent change to the province’s cannabis store licensing program, impacting their business plans. 

In April, the Manitoba government said it was placing a temporary freeze on any new “controlled access” retail cannabis licences for at least six months while the new provincial government looked into the issue more. These licences for retail cannabis stores allow for cannabis to be sold in convenience stores and gas stations that carry other non-cannabis products.

The province currently lists 205 cannabis stores licensed. Eleven of these stores are “controlled access” stores. 

Edwardo Famakin, a spokesperson for Manitoba cannabis producer, WOWKPOW, says he and his partners were “blindsided” by the announcement as they were in the final stages of receiving approval for an agreement with Manitoba retail/gas station Domo to supply the chain with their locally-produced cannabis products. 

Famakin tells StratCann that WOWKPOW and Domo had been in talks with the provincial government about their plans to supply five gas stations in the Winnipeg area with cannabis products, and had expected some of the first licences to be issued in May of this year. 

Instead, he said he learned of the news that the province was pausing the program in media reports, rather than from the government—something that has left him and his colleagues confused. 

He says WOWKPOW signed an agreement in June 2023 with Domo to supply several of their locations with cannabis, an ongoing discussion he says Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MBLL) and the Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba (LGCA) were aware of.

“We all had a big meeting about how we were going to do this,” explains a frustrated Famakin. “Then over the next 11 months we all worked together to get everything ready. So seeing this in the news instead of them informing us, it was gut wrenching. It threw us off.”

Now, he says the company is already having to lay off employees they had hired in expectation of this new agreement. 

“The directive I’ve provided to MBLL, through the board chair, is to put a pause on licences for controlled access in urban areas and cities. We do have concerns about the availability of cannabis for young people and we want to make sure that we’re making socially responsible choices. Widespread availability of cannabis outside of an age restricted area is a concern, and we want to make sure we’re balancing availability and social responsibility.”

Glen Simard, the Minister responsible for Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation (MBLL)

In a prepared statement sent to StratCann, Douglas and Kate Everett, the chairman and president of Domo Corporation Ltd., said the company was disappointed to hear of the pause on the issuing of licences for Controlled Access Cannabis Stores, a change they blame on lobbying from Manitoba’s Retail Cannabis Council, an organization representing some cannabis stores in the province.

“After a year-long extremely detailed application process, Domo was in the final stages of obtaining Controlled Access Retailer Licences for our five stores when [the] Government derailed the process. We feel it is particularly unfortunate that the Manitoba Government is favouring large out of province chain retailers instead of local Manitoba-based cultivators, distributors, and retailers.”

Some cannabis retailers in the province have in the past expressed concern about such licences. Melanie Bekevich, owner of Mistik Cannabis in Winnipeg and a member of the Retail Cannabis Council of Manitoba (RCCMB), told StratCann earlier this year that the organization had met with the Manitoba government to express their concerns with how these licences are being issued. 

“In their review process they should have consulted their regulatory bodies to see the impact of their decisions for stakeholders who had been working with them the entire time. For existing applications already in the system, to just end it without any type of communication or forewarning, is striking.

Edwardo Famakin, WOWKPOW Cannabis

“The RCCMB is pleased that the Minister has been responsive to the industry’s calls for a review on the controlled access licence category,” said Bekevich. “This category was intended to provide access to legal cannabis for rural and remote communities, but we’re seeing most of these licences in Winnipeg and Brandon. A review of the category could ensure controlled access licensing is being used in the spirit of its original intent. The Minister will need to find a balance between limiting exposure of minors to cannabis sales and access for rural remote communities.”

Famakin, at WOWKPOW, says one of his frustrations is that the new provincial government, which replaced the previous government in an election in 2023, had not contacted stakeholders like WOWKPOW or Domo to let them know about the changes in advance. 

“In their review process they should have consulted their regulatory bodies to see the impact of their decisions for stakeholders who had been working with them the entire time. For existing applications already in the system, to just end it without any type of communication or forewarning, is striking. I don’t think there’s just cause for the pause. Manitoba producers need more places to sell Manitoba products.”

Glen Simard, Manitoba Minister of Sport, Culture, Heritage and Tourism, as well as the Minister responsible for Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation (MBLL), told StratCann the “pause” on such licences was in urban areas and was based on concerns with young people being able to potentially access cannabis in less-than-secure retail settings.

“We know that when legalization took place, that this was a new and emerging market. As with liquor and lotteries, our focus is on ensuring social responsibility,” Simard tells StratCann. “We want to make sure that people are accessing cannabis in a safe and reliable manner.  What we see now is that consumers don’t struggle to access cannabis. With over 200 stores in Manitoba, people in urban areas have access to cannabis.  

“The directive I’ve provided to MBLL, through the board chair, is to put a pause on licences for controlled access in urban areas and cities. We do have concerns about the availability of cannabis for young people and we want to make sure that we’re making socially responsible choices. Widespread availability of cannabis outside of an age restricted area is a concern, and we want to make sure we’re balancing availability and social responsibility.”

“I’ll be frank,” he added, “we’re not hearing an overwhelming desire from Manitobans to see cannabis available in convenience stores. That’s why we’re taking the time to do a review and get this right. People would expect this on the liquor side, where we’ve always considered market viability when looking at liquor retail licences.”

Simard also says the new provincial government has no plans of changing Manitoba’s private retail cannabis model into a publicly-owned retail model, despite some claims from the opposition. 

“One important side note: We’re not looking to bring cannabis sales under public ownership and are committed to working with our existing retail partners to ensure a continued focus on social responsibility.”

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Trawling the Farm for Human Energy

Trawling the Farm for Human Energy

By Makia Freeman

In many ways, living on Planet Earth is like living on a human farm.

We are being trawled for our “human energy”. I was starkly reminded of this the other day when I saw someone walking around with a Chevron t-shirt which sported their logo and new motto: human energy. How ironic. For most people, the motto probably seems harmless enough, or maybe even benevolent, showing a kindhearted corporation caring about its employees and the world, or recognizing the importance of the people running its operations. Yet if you understand the occult foundation of corporate logos, you’ll know that Chevron’s logo is really a pyramid (2 levels of the corner edges). The pyramid is favorite image of the New World Order, because it represents a tiny hierarchy at the top being held up by a large majority at the bottom, and symbolizes the compartmentalization of knowledge the further you go up. Just like its logo, Chevron’s motto has nothing at all to do with caring for people, and everything to do with controlling people and harvesting energy from the human farm, looking at people as nothing more than batteries that create energy (ever wonder why corporations call it “human resources”?).

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Corporations (like Chevron, spin off from Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil) have cut a deal with the real devil or harvester. Corporate heads are middle managers in the equation. They are conduits to set up human farms, and funnel human energy upwards.

The Ultimate Point of the Conspiracy: Harvesting Energy from the Human Farm

When looking at the headlines and news each day, it’s useful to take a step back sometimes and ask yourself: why? What’s the point of all this control? The NWO conspirators have all the money, wealth and prestige they could want. Some of them are the international banksters that own the money printing press and could literally print what they wanted. Some of them would never have enough time to spend all their money.

At a certain point the game is not about money; it’s about power and it’s about energy – or more specifically, human energy. It’s about setting up a system where people at the top sit around all day, managing the human farm, while their economic or literal slaves do all the work to benefit the controllers. Check out Stefan Molyneux’s great ebook The Handbook of Human Ownership for the precise history and techniques behind it all. NWO-owned corporations are the middle managers in this equation: they are the physical conduits through which the human energy is funneled upwards. These NWO conspirators are not the ultimate controllers, because they themselves are being demonically possessed – and the force which is doing the possessing is a group of non-human entities which many have referred to as the Archons.

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Are you on the human-farm, generating energy or loosh for some predator?

Human Energy = Loosh – Food for the Archons

Loosh is defined by the urban dictionary as “an energy generated by all organic life in varying degrees of purity, the clearest and most potent coming from humans – engendered by human activity”. Shocking as it may seem, humans are not at the top of the food chain. Listen to what Bronte Baxter had to say about the human farm and loosh in her article Tracking the Crack in the Universe (Loosh 101):

“Reportedly the light being told Monroe that when humans die, their energy is released and harvested by trans-dimensional beings, who use it to extend their own life spans. The claim is that the universe is a garden created by these beings as their food source.”

“According to Monroe’s story, animals are intentionally positioned on this planet to feed on plants and on each other, thereby releasing the life force of their victims so it can be harvested. In a predator-prey struggle, exceptional energy is produced in the combatants. The spilling of blood in a fight-to-the-death conflict releases this intense energy, which the light beings call “loosh.”

“According to Monroe’s informant, our creators, the cosmic “energy farmers,” intentionally equipped animals with devices like fangs, claws and super-speed in order to prolong predator-prey combat and thereby produce more loosh. In other words, the greater the suffering, the more life force is spewed from our bodies, and the tastier the energy meal for our creators.”

There you have it. Monroe, Castaneda and many many other sources all talk about the same basic concept of a garden or human farm where energy is trawled.

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9/11 produced food or loosh for the Archons in a massive way, by scaring the captives on the human farm

9/11 14th Anniversary: Recall 9/11 Was a Mass Ritual to Generate Loosh

As we approach the 9/11 14th anniversary, it is worth remembering that ultimate point of that horrendous false flag operation: to ritually sacrifice people, scare the wits out of anyone else and generate a large amount of loosh. It’s no coincidence that the operation was carried out on 9/11 when 911 is the emergency number dialed in the US. Think how many times our so-called leaders have said that “the world changed forever on 9/11”. Like the hackneyed term national security, 9/11 has become the excuse for the NWO conspirators to do anything they want, whether it’s expanding Government (creation of the DHS), passing draconian legislation (The Patriot Act), attacking innocent, sovereign and foreign nations (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), squelching key aspects of the Bill of Rights and concocting an entirely new faceless, enemy-less and endless war – the Fake War on Terror. What a tremendous amount of loosh for the Archons!

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We are all “food of the gods” on the human farm until we reclaim our awareness and break free.

Solution: Make a Strong Determination Not to Be Food on a Human Farm

Like it or not, we live in a predatory universe. Not all of Nature is predatory, but it’s certainly an aspect which is present in a large degree. In our arrogance we may think we are at the top of the food chain, but maybe we’re not. There is copious evidence from ancient accounts and current ET contacts/abductees that we are not alone in the Universe, and that there are hostile advanced races who are happy to feed on human energy. Getting out of the human farm starts with waking up to the truth that the human farm exists. Fortunately, the signs are that a lot of people are doing that. Hopefully it will be fast enough before the NWO becomes too entrenched …

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Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media / independent news site The Freedom Articles. He is author of the books Break Your Chains and The International Satanic Network Exposed, the book series Controversial Truths Revealed (Cancer: The Lies, the Truth and the Solutions and 40 Incredible Real Life Alien Abductee and Contactee Experiences) and senior researcher at ToolsForFreedom.com. Makia is on Rumble, BitChute and Odysee.

Sources:

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vywi8q2rLYw

http://cdn.media.freedomainradio.com/feed/books/HHO/The_Handbook_of_Human_Ownership_by_Stefan_Molyneux_PDF.pdf

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