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Matt Maurer speaks to Marijuana Business Daily on cannabis curbside pickup and home delivery

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer, of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, speaks to Marijuana Business Daily on cannabis pickup and delivery.
Apr 9, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Marijuana Business Daily on the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario pausing new store authorizations

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer, of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, speaks to Marijuana Business Daily on the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario pausing new store...
Apr 9, 2020

Ontario Government Issues Emergency Order to Re-Open Cannabis Stores

Matt Maurer and Vlad Mihaescu Since our previous article on this topic, the Ontario Government has removed cannabis retail stores from the list of essential workplaces. The cannabi...
Apr 8, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Business of Cannabis on cannabis retail, click-and-collect and delivery

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer, of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, spoke with Jay Rosenthal of Business of Cannabis for Cannabis + Tech | Retail Tech presented by Leaf...
Apr 8, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Hemp Industry Daily about the Canadian CBD drink market

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer, of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, speaks to Hemp Industry Daily about the Canadian CBD drink market.
Apr 7, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Global News on cannabis stores closing due to COVID-19

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer, of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, speaks to Global News on cannabis stores closing due to COVID-19.
Apr 7, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Marijuana Business Daily about NYSE delisting CannTrust

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, speaks to Marijuana Business Daily about NYSE delisting CannTrust.
Apr 1, 2020

Sahil Razdan speaks at Cannabis + Tech | Retail Tech presented by LeafLink

Cannabis TM Sahil Razdan, an associate in our Corporate Law Group, spoke with Jay Rosenthal of Business of Cannabis for Cannabis + Tech | Retail Tech presented by...
Mar 31, 2020

Health Canada Makes Numerous Cannabis Operational Adjustments to Deal with COVID-19

Matt Maurer and Vlad Mihaescu Federally licensed cannabis producers received guidance from Health Canada this week regarding new regulatory measures that will be taken as a result ...
Mar 27, 2020

How Cannabis Retailers are Keeping Staff and Customers Safe During the Pandemic

Matt Maurer As outlined in our post yesterday, the Ontario government has deemed cannabis stores and cannabis producers essential businesses within Ontario during...
Mar 25, 2020

Cannabis Retail and COVID-19

Matt Maurer and Vlad Mihaescu Both the Ontario and Quebec governments have issued orders to suspend and close all non-essential business operations in their respective provinces. T...
Mar 24, 2020

How the Ontario Cannabis Lottery Gave Birth to Cannabis Retail Franchising

Matt Maurer It all started on December 13, 2018, the day that the Government of Ontario announced that a temporary cap of 25 Retail Store Authorizations (“RSAs”),...
Mar 23, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Cannabis IQ – Global News about growing cannabis on a rental property

Matt Maurer Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group Co-Chair, Matt Maurer, was featured in the recent newsletter, Cannabis IQ – Global News.
Feb 24, 2020

Matt Maurer joins Osgoode Hall Law School Cannabis Law and Regulation Program as a member of the Advisory Board and instructor

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer, co-chair of our Cannabis Law Group, joins Osgoode Hall Law School, York University's newly created Cannabis Law and Regulation certificat...
Feb 20, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Global News about Ontario seeking to expand its marijuana market

Matt Maurer It’s been 15 months since cannabis legalization and still in Ontario, almost a fifth of the population live in places where selling pot is illegal. As...
Feb 11, 2020

Ontario Government Contemplating Licensing Cannabis Consumption Establishments and Issuing Cannabis Special Occasion Permits

Matt Maurer and Breanna Young As part of the province of Ontario’s transition to an open cannabis market, the Ontario government announced on February 10, 2020, that it is seeking ...
Feb 11, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Global News about Ontario communities opting out of cannabis sales

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer of Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group, spoke to ​Global News about Ontario communities opting out of cannabis sales.
Feb 10, 2020

Jeffrey Simpson speaks to Marijuana Business Daily about struggling US cannabis companies

Jeffrey J. Simpson Jeffrey Simpson of Torkin Manes' Banking, Finance and Insolvency Group, spoke to Marijuana Business Daily about struggling US cannabis companies poten...
Feb 6, 2020

Event Recap - Cannabis Retail: Everything You Need to Open a Store or Build a Retail Brand in a Post-Lottery World

Cannabis TM On February 4, 2020 the Torkin Manes Cannabis Law Group hosted members of the cannabis community at the Toronto Region Board of Trade for a full day o...
Feb 5, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Global News about the markup price in relation to farm-gate cannabis retail

Matt Maurer This spring, Ontario will start to see farm-gate cannabis retail: much like a vineyard or brewery, customers will be able to go to a growing facility ...
Jan 28, 2020

Join us on February 4, 2020 at Cannabis Retail: Everything You Need to Open a Store or Build a Retail Brand in a Post-Lottery World

Cannabis TM On February 4, 2020, the Torkin Manes Cannabis Law Group, along with a select group of industry experts from the fields of cannabis banking, finance, ...
Jan 28, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Cannabis IQ about legally transporting cannabis

Matt Maurer Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group Co-Chair, Matt Maurer, was featured in the recent newsletter, Cannabis IQ – Global News.
Jan 27, 2020

Mexico Cannabis Update - 2019 Cannabis Year in Review

Cannabis TM This guest post was written by Luis Armendariz, Partner at CAAM Legal.
Jan 13, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to Marijuana Business Daily about farm-gate retail

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer of Torkin Manes Cannabis Law Group said there is very little logic in having a provincial wholesaler involved in a farm-gate store.
Jan 8, 2020

Matt Maurer speaks to the Financial Post about the rush to buy out Ontario's first wave of cannabis retail lottery winners

Matt Maurer As a number of prominent cannabis retail chains are in the process of taking ownership control of Ontario cannabis retail stores held by the winners o...
Dec 19, 2019

Matt Maurer speaks to Business of Cannabis Live from MJBizCon 2019

Matt Maurer Cannabis Law Group Co-Chair, Matt Maurer was a guest on Business of Cannabis Live from MJBizCon 2019.
Dec 16, 2019

Ontario Officially Open For Cannabis Retail

Breanna Young and Matt Maurer The Ontario Government dropped a cannabis bombshell on the province and the Canadian cannabis industry yesterday when it announced that dramatic and s...
Dec 13, 2019

Matt Maurer speaks to Cannabis IQ about sending cannabis in the mail

Matt Maurer Torkin Manes' Cannabis Law Group Co-Chair, Matt Maurer, was featured in the recent newsletter, Cannabis IQ – Global News.
Dec 10, 2019

Matt Maurer Selected to Judge Marijuana Business Daily Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada

Matt Maurer Torkin Manes LLP is pleased to announce that Cannabis Law Group Co-Chair Matt Maurer was selected by MJBizDaily to be a judge for the MJBizDaily Award...
Dec 6, 2019

The Torkin Manes Cannabis Law Group is pleased to be acting for WeedMD in connection with strategic combination with Starseed Holdings Inc.

Cannabis TM WeedMD Inc., a federally-licensed producer and distributor of medical-grade cannabis, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement da...
Dec 2, 2019

Matt Maurer's Slaw eBook is now available on CanLII

Matt Maurer Matt Maurer's Slaw ebook on Cannabis Law is now available on CanLII.
Nov 28, 2019

Matt Maurer and Carrie Levitt speak to Cannabis IQ about young people participating in cultivation activities

Carrie Levitt and Matt Maurer Matt Maurer and Carrie Levitt are featured in the recent newsletter, Cannabis IQ – Global News.
Nov 25, 2019
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