Global News published this video item, entitled “Nova Scotia study finds Canada’s cannabis products routinely mislabelled” – below is their description.
Since Canada legalized cannabis in 2018, sales have skyrocketed to an industry now worth $4 billion a year in the country.
But Nova Scotia scientists have made troubling discovery over the products – cannabis strains are being regularly mixed up and mislabelled on the shelves.
The Cannabis Council of Canada, which represents more than 700 licensed growers in the country, suggests it’s a lingering effect from the illegal cannabis market.
Ross Lord looks at how exactly it’s messing up the marketing over scientific facts – and why it could be dangerous.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant. Native to Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, the cannabis plant has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various traditional medicines for centuries.