Amanda Siebert

Amanda Siebert is an award-winning journalist covering the cannabis industry. In addition to writing for the Straight, she's shot dozens of covers and multimedia pieces over the years.
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Using burlesque, humour, and seduction, Virago Nation takes a deep look at Indigenous sexuality for Heart of the City

"It’s always on women to look a certain way so that nothing bad happens to them. That is a huge part of colonization"

Cannabis

The Good Vibes Tour: Meet the couple biking across Canada in celebration of cannabis legalization

Cannabis-infused adventure duo Mat Leblanc and Ali Becker are biking across Canada to cultivate social awareness and spread good vibes.

Cannabis

Mike Harcourt will speak about his experience with medical cannabis at annual B.C. pharmacy conference

In 2002, a fall from his deck on Pender Island resulted in a serious spinal cord injury that left former premier Mike Harcourt partially paralyzed.

Cannabis

Canopy Growth Corporation is officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange

One of Canada's largest licensed cannabis producers is officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Cannabis

Liberal MPs vote to maintain excise tax on medical cannabis despite pushback from patients

Liberal members of the finance committee have voted against an amendment that could have led to the exemption of medical cannabis from Bill C-74’s proposed excise tax.

Cannabis

Barn containing licensed cannabis grow-op burns down in Langley

A licensed grow-op that caught fire on Saturday evening in Langley has burned to the ground.

Cannabis

Million-dollar pitch day for cannabis entrepreneurs is coming to Vancouver

Canopy Rivers will offer $1,000,000 to an aspiring cannabis entrepreneur at the International Cannabis Business Conference.

Cannabis

Where is amnesty in the federal government's plan to legalize cannabis?

"Rectifying the harms that have been done by the criminalization of cannabis is central to this legislation, and yet it’s nowhere to be found.”

Cannabis

Councillor says cannabis supply motion aims to rid dispensaries of links to “organized crime and gangs”

“The thing that the councillors are missing is that this motion seeks an outcome that is against federal criminal law," lawyer Kirk Tousaw told the Straight by phone.