Over the last ten years, there has been a global shift in the perception of marijuana and its related products. Slowly but surely, the stigma that has been associated with the herb has been reduced and countries all over the world have started relaxing the laws on the use of cannabis products, especially for medical purposes. In fact, there are 30 countries that have legalized the use of medical marijuana, while four countries have gone as far as to lift the ban completely.
South Africa, Georgia, several states in the USA and Canada have legalized the use of cannabis for both medical and recreational purposes. These groundbreaking steps are considered the first toward global acceptance of marijuana and its medical properties. There has been a general expectation that many more countries will be following suit, and many are waiting in anticipation to, like Canada, be able to buy weed online.
So, if you are based in Canada, or whether you are waiting for your country’s ban to be lifted, and want to know how easy it is to order weed online, we took a look. We unpacked how to buy weed online Canada-wise, looking into the legalities and what steps are taken to get the right product to people’s homes.
Step One: Know Whether You are Legal
The first thing you need to know before setting off on your online shopping spree is to know whether you are legal to buy weed online. Although it may seem like a straightforward answer, you would be surprised to know that different provinces have different rules to follow in all aspects of the weed dispensing business. The federal Cannabis Act allows Canadians 18 years of age and over to purchase and use cannabis, however, each province has been allowed to regulate this and dictate its own rules. So, while you may be 18, you will still need to wait a few years in certain provinces.
Below are the legal ages to purchase cannabis throughout Canada:
The legal age of 18:
Alberta.
The legal age of 19:
British Columbia;
Manitoba;
New Brunswick;
Newfoundland and Labrador;
Northwest Territories;
Nova Scotia;
Nunavut;
Ontario;
Prince Edward Island;
Saskatchewan;
Yukon.
The legal age of 21:
Quebec.
Step Two: Be Prepared for How Much You Can Buy
The second thing you will need to be aware of is just how much you can purchase. The amounts of legal possession differ with different cannabis products. When it comes to the dried plant, which is mostly used for smoking, you are legally allowed to buy and possess 30 grams. If you are purchasing other products, you are allowed the following:
150 grams of fresh cannabis;
450 grams of the edible product;
2,100 grams of the liquid product;
5 grams of concentrates (solid or liquid);
30 cannabis plant seeds.
The growth of marijuana plants is legal in Canada but is also controlled. The legislation states that you are allowed to grow up to four plants in your own home, but they do need to be grown from licensed seeds or seedlings. Restrictions have also been placed on how much you are allowed to possess at home in some of the provinces. This differs from province to province:
No limits: Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island;
1000 grams: British Columbia;
150 grams: Nunavut and Quebec;
No amount set: Saskatchewan and Yukon.
Step Three: Find the Right Website to Order From
As mentioned previously, although it is legal to buy weed in Canada, the rules do differ from province to province. Part of these restrictions includes where you are purchasing your product from. The Canadian government has deemed it necessary to control the outlets providing weed to the public in order to ensure that the products being provided to its citizens are safe and are qualitative products. People can only purchase from authorized and accredited retailers online, as provided by each province.
qualitative products. People can only purchase from authorized and accredited retailers online, as provided by each province.
So, you will need to go through the sites provided to you by your particular province to find the best Canada weed dispensary in your area. Going even further to control the products, in certain provinces, you can only go through the government-controlled website to order your products.
The following provinces have specific provincial government online stores:
British Columbia;
Alberta;
Ontario;
Quebec;
New Brunswick;
Nova Scotia;
Prince Edward Island;
Newfoundland;
Yukon;
Northwest Territories.
These provinces have a list of approved private retailers:
Saskatchewan;
Manitoba;
Nunavut.
Step Four: Will it Be Delivered or Can You Do Pick-Ups?
Once again, it will be down to what province you live in whether you can mail order marijuana to be delivered to your door, or whether you have the option to pick it up in-store. In the time of COVID-19 and the global lockdown, however, it is important to contact the outlet to see how you can receive your products over the upcoming weeks.
It is important to know that all medical-use marijuana can be delivered to your door. You will, however, need to be registered through the state-provided site in order to be eligible for it. For recreational weed, all larger and approved retailers are only allowed to ship within their provinces, whereas the privately-owned stores are not allowed to deliver. Delivery fees and options also vary from one state to the other, some offer flat fees and same-day delivery options.
Province
Delivery Option
Fee
Time Period
British Columbia
Provincially-run retailers only through Canada Post: BC Cannabis Stores
$8
Three to seven days
Alberta
Provincially-run retailers only through Canada Post: BC Cannabis Stores
Pick-up options available for private retailers.
$4.95
Saskatchewan
Delivery and pickup permitted through accredited retailers.
Dependent on retailer
Dependent on retailer
Manitoba
Delivery and pickup permitted through accredited retailers.
Dependent on retailer
Dependent on retailer
Ontario
Provincially-run retailers only through Canada Post: Ontario Cannabis Store
$5.65
Three business days
Quebec
Provincially-run retailers only through Canada Post: Ontario Cannabis Store: SQDC
$5
One to three business days
Newfoundland and Labrador
Orders made through provincially-run retailer but shipments are processed and filled by the Licensed Producers
Dependent on retailer
Up to seven days, but dependent on retailer
Prince Edward Island
Provincially-run retailers only through Canada Post: NSLC
$7
Two to three business days
New Brunswick
Provincially-run retailers only through Canada Post: NSLC
$7
Next day delivery or express options.
The Last Step: Have the Right Documentation Ready
The final stage of your online order is to make sure that you are ready to receive your newly purchased weed products. In order to prove that you are of legal age and confirm your identity, you should be able to provide your ID document, with a photo attached in order to legally be handed your purchase. As with all deliveries, you will also need to sign for the purchase.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. That’s the most at this point in the year since 2014, when cases topped 21,800.
The increase is not unexpected — whooping cough peaks every three to five years, health experts said. And the numbers indicate a return to levels before the coronavirus pandemic, when whooping cough and other contagious illnesses plummeted.
Still, the tally has some state health officials concerned, including those in Wisconsin, where there have been about 1,000 cases so far this year, compared to a total of 51 last year.
Nationwide, CDC has reported that kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year and vaccine exemptions are at an all-time high. Thursday, it released state figures, showing that about 86% of kindergartners in Wisconsin got the whooping cough vaccine, compared to more than 92% nationally.
Whooping cough, also called pertussis, usually starts out like a cold, with a runny nose and other common symptoms, before turning into a prolonged cough. It is treated with antibiotics. Whooping cough used to be very common until a vaccine was introduced in the 1950s, which is now part of routine childhood vaccinations. It is in a shot along with tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. The combo shot is recommended for adults every 10 years.
“They used to call it the 100-day cough because it literally lasts for 100 days,” said Joyce Knestrick, a family nurse practitioner in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Whooping cough is usually seen mostly in infants and young children, who can develop serious complications. That’s why the vaccine is recommended during pregnancy, to pass along protection to the newborn, and for those who spend a lot of time with infants.
But public health workers say outbreaks this year are hitting older kids and teens. In Pennsylvania, most outbreaks have been in middle school, high school and college settings, an official said. Nearly all the cases in Douglas County, Nebraska, are schoolkids and teens, said Justin Frederick, deputy director of the health department.
That includes his own teenage daughter.
“It’s a horrible disease. She still wakes up — after being treated with her antibiotics — in a panic because she’s coughing so much she can’t breathe,” he said.
It’s important to get tested and treated with antibiotics early, said Dr. Kris Bryant, who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases at Norton Children’s in Louisville, Kentucky. People exposed to the bacteria can also take antibiotics to stop the spread.
“Pertussis is worth preventing,” Bryant said. “The good news is that we have safe and effective vaccines.”
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AP data journalist Kasturi Pananjady contributed to this report.
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How a sperm and egg fuse together has long been a mystery.
New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people.
“We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we can tell,” said co-author Andrea Pauli at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
The team found that three proteins on the sperm join to form a sort of key that unlocks the egg, allowing the sperm to attach. Their findings, drawn from studies in zebrafish, mice, and human cells, show how this process has persisted over millions of years of evolution. Results were published Thursday in the journal Cell.
Scientists had previously known about two proteins, one on the surface of the sperm and another on the egg’s membrane. Working with international collaborators, Pauli’s lab used Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence tool AlphaFold — whose developers were awarded a Nobel Prize earlier this month — to help them identify a new protein that allows the first molecular connection between sperm and egg. They also demonstrated how it functions in living things.
It wasn’t previously known how the proteins “worked together as a team in order to allow sperm and egg to recognize each other,” Pauli said.
Scientists still don’t know how the sperm actually gets inside the egg after it attaches and hope to delve into that next.
Eventually, Pauli said, such work could help other scientists understand infertility better or develop new birth control methods.
The work provides targets for the development of male contraceptives in particular, said David Greenstein, a genetics and cell biology expert at the University of Minnesota who was not involved in the study.
The latest study “also underscores the importance of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry,” he said in an email.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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