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Sundial Growers says its partnership with city confectioner Choklat to produce edibles in time to stuff Christmas stockings is part of the recipe for the cannabis company’s recovery during the tough times of an industry downturn.

Two Calgary-based companies are ready to combine a cannabis buzz with a sugar rush.

Sundial Growers says its partnership with city confectioner Choklat — to produce edibles in time for Christmas — is part of the recipe for the cannabis company’s recovery during the tough times of an industry downturn.

– Read the entire article at Calgary Herald.

The hippie cachet and seaside accents of Alex Rumi’s craft-grown bud have proven such a hit in Alberta, retailers and consumers can’t get enough, the producer says.

“Retailers have had a hard time keeping it on the shelves,” said Rumi of the fruits of Good Buds, which boasts both indoor and outdoor organic grow operations on Salt Spring Island, B.C.

“There’s really a reputation with the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island — pretty well anyone you point to on the street is likely growing something and it’s better than most.”

The indoor side of the company’s cultivation uses converted shipping containers, an approach Rumi dubs “black market-style.”

– Read the entire article at Calgary Herald.

The era of legal cannabis edibles has arrived in Calgary’s retail outlets.

Some dispensaries received their first shipments of pot-infused treats Monday from distributor Alberta Gaming Liquor Cannabis, bringing with them hopes of a renewed surge in business.

“I hope it brings more customers in who haven’t tried it,” said Mylann Doell, manager of the Queen of Bud at 1717 10th Ave. S.W.

The products, she said, have been heavily anticipated by customers.

– Read the entire article at Calgary Herald.

Calgary-based licensed cannabis producer Sundial Growers failed to disclose its products’ contamination problems prior to going public on the stock market, a class-action lawsuit contends.

A complaint filed Sept. 25 under the name of plaintiff and company investor Yimin Huang said that defendants, including board member and former University of Calgary president Elizabeth Cannon, were in New York City on Aug. 1 to mark the company’s shares being listed on the NASDAQ.

“The registration statement represented that Sundial was a producer of ‘high-quality cannabis in small batches’ and that ‘we produce high-quality, consistent cannabis’ and that the Company’s operating model results in ‘strong customer loyalty,’ ” reads the complaint.

– Read the entire article at Calgary Herald.

Federal red tape and foot-dragging on approving edible cannabis makers will see months-long delays in the products reaching stores, a Calgary chocolatier said Thursday.

And a spokeswoman with Alberta’s cannabis regulator also voiced frustrations about the process.

City businessman Brad Churchill said he’s been waiting for a licence allowing him to infuse chocolate with cannabis at his Calgary factory since applying for it late July.

The owner of Choklat said he’s only received a reply from Health Canada but no licence this week and fears the time it takes to receive it, and approval for such things as packaging, will push back the actual sales date for his products to March or April.

em>- Read the entire article at Calgary Sun.

The second great Canadian cannabis rush is nearing the starting line, with pot entrepreneurs looking to stand out amid an onslaught of soon-to-be-legal edibles on the market.

Legal cannabis edibles and other derivatives are expected to grow Canada’s cannabis market by three million consumers, or 65 per cent, according to a poll commissioned earlier this year by a leading industry data collector.

The survey, conducted with 3,000 respondents last May by Lift & Co. and Ernst and Young, suggests the country’s 4.6 million adult cannabis users will grow to about 7.6 million after a wider variety of non-smokable licensed products go on store shelves at year’s end.

If so, that would see the percentage of adult Canadians consuming the drug grow to at least 23 per cent.

– Read the entire article at Cagary Herald.