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Massive stash – Canadian legal pot sales add up to $43m in first two weeks after legalization

January 6, 2019 By admin

A new report released by Statistics Canada shows some blazing stats on the early days of marijuana legalization. According to the national statistical office, Canadians spent a staggering $43 million on weed in the two weeks following legalization.

The data was collected from the date of legalization (Oct. 17th) and included in-store and online sales of all cannabis products available.

While the first dataset only showed the first two weeks, a follow up report will show the entire 1-month picture. Date of release for this information is still to be determined.

Some of the most important variables, according to Statistics Canada, were different retail structures and supply shortages. The latter has been a persistent problem that caught the government completely unprepared. PM Trudeau has gone on record saying that he expects the problem to be solved within the next year.

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Malleable Marijuana – scientists achieve breakthrough in cannabis DNA manipulation

January 3, 2019 By admin

A team of Canadian and US scientists have pinned down the genes that give marijuana its kick. This had not been attained until now, as researchers had to wade through a sea of viral DNA that had become part of the plant‘s genome. This “junk“ DNA had been deposited by viruses throughout its evolution.

While the plant‘s genome was successfully sequenced in 2011, some its genes were not found – as they were buried among viral DNA.

With this breakthrough, the plant‘s levels of CBD and THC will be much more easily manipulated – thus regulating the intoxicating effects of selected strains, as well as the medicinal ones. This is an invaluable breakthrough in the recently legalized Canadian market.

“You can only manipulate a gene when you know where it is located. And you also need to know something about the rest of the sequencing in the genome so that you can uniquely target the gene of interest and not be sidetracked by … other things that look similar,” says Harm van Bakel, a genomic expert at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City – and major research contributor.

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