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Yellowknife Approves Cannabis Store Despite Neighbour Opposition
The City of Yellowknife approved George Abraham’s plan for a cannabis store at 5013 48 Street, with the final day to appeal on Tuesday. Abraham also owns Lil Ava’s Pizza & Pasta in Inuvik and Hay River. An adjacent daycare and dentist’s office raised concerns about safety and loitering.
Nellie’s Academy Day Centre wrote that “the issue before the City is not whether cannabis is legal. The issue is whether this is an appropriate location for that use,” arguing the store may “discourage families from enrolling their children at Nellie’s Academy.” Abraham said the store will open at 11am, have windows designed so cannabis products cannot be seen from outside, and employ security personnel. The city’s planning report noted there is no legislation dictating which businesses a cannabis store can or cannot be beside, including a daycare.
Abraham wrote that a regulated cannabis store “contributes safety” and keeps money “within the community by reducing black market activity.”
Floraworks on What Food Safety Teams Should Ask Cannabinoid Suppliers
Floraworks has spent the last several years evaluating cannabinol (CBN) as a mainstream food and dietary ingredient, concluding that being a compliant cannabinoid supplier and having a qualified ingredient are two different standards. The first answers, “Did this batch pass its COA?” The second answers, “What evidence supports the safety and identity of this ingredient for its intended use?”
The company evaluated CBN through established frameworks such as GRAS and the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) pathway. It recommends verifying quality-management systems, GMP status, traceability, analytical testing, specifications, and manufacturing controls, then going further: asking suppliers to define the ingredient precisely, how it is manufactured, what controls exist around potential impurities and degradation products, and whether stability data supports the specification. The value of the evidence depends on the ability to connect it to the commercial ingredient.
Feds and Marijuana Opponents Agree on Briefing Schedule in Rescheduling Lawsuit
One suit is led by Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association (NDASA). Another comes from anti-marijuana activists, substance misuse professionals, doctors, and MMJ International Holdings and its subsidiaries. A third was filed by the attorneys general of Indiana, Nebraska, and Louisiana, though Louisiana later withdrew.
