Ready to purchase cannabis in Canada’s legal market? Our complete guide to buying cannabis products from Real Scientific® is here to help you decide which product is best for you and find a store near you carrying our products.
As of October 17, 2018, the Cannabis Act authorizes the use of cannabis in Canada for adults. With this nationwide cannabis market open to consumers in Canada, many interested in taking advantage of Canada’s cannabis policies but have questions about finding the right products for their needs.
Keep reading to learn more about Real Scientific®, who can buy our products, and where in Canada they are available.
Anyone who is at least 18 years old can buy dried or fresh cannabis, cannabis oil, and other cannabis products from a provincially-licensed retailer. All you need is proof of age to access cannabis retailers and make a purchase. You don’t need to be a resident of Canada to purchase legal cannabis; your passport is accepted as a proof of age. However, individual provinces and territories may have their own overriding rules. Check your local laws before attempting to purchase cannabis products.
The current regulations for medical cannabis will continue to allow access to cannabis for people who have the authorization of their healthcare provider.
Under the Cannabis Act, adults aged 18 and over can purchase cannabis products from approved stores operating throughout Canada. Although the national government has set guidelines for distribution and sale of cannabis, local laws may vary.
According to the Canadian government’s website, provinces and territories will have ultimate control over how cannabis is distributed and sold in their locals. Provinces and territories will have the ability to set rules around, how cannabis can be sold, where stores may be located, and how stores must be operated.
Real Scientific® products can be found in authorized legal cannabis dispensaries across Canada. Use our Store Locator tool to find our products in a store near you.
Customers can purchase dried or fresh cannabis flower or cannabis oil products like capsules, liquids, and sprays with no more than 10 mg of cannabinoids per serving. Although product options are limited for now, the government plans to make cannabis edibles and concentrates legal within the first year of operation, opening the door for products like vape pens and tasty cannabis-infused treats down the road.
The government has not published average prices for legal cannabis products in Canada, though prices may increase with to legalization due to concerns over taxes and licensing fees. In the grey market, prices of cannabis flower and its derivatives fluctuated by up to 35% depending on location and brand.
You can legally purchase and possess in public up to 30 grams of dried cannabis flower or its equivalent in non-dried forms. According to the Cannabis Act, one gram of dried cannabis is equal to:
Real Scientific® offers two distinct brands – Real Scientific Hemp Oil™ and Real Scientific Cannabis Oil™. The primary difference between these two brands is THC and CBD content and the source of the cannabis oil itself.
The active chemical compounds in cannabis are called cannabinoids. The two most prominent cannabinoids are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). While CBD and THC are both present in the cannabis plant, THC is found in higher levels in marijuana, while CBD is more dominant in the hemp plant.
Both CBD and THC provide their effects by interacting with the body’s endocannabinoid system, but they do so in different ways. THC interacts with the body’s CB1 receptor, found in the central nervous system. CBD interacts with the CB2 receptor, found throughout the peripheral nervous system.
THC is popular for recreational use due to its psychoactive effects. CBD, on the other hand, is popular for its wellness effects. Typically, cannabis products will be available in either CBD or THC. However, some products contain a blend of both THC and CBD in varying ratios.
Want a product with CBD? Real Scientific Hemp Oil™ (RSHO™) offers full-spectrum hemp oil products that contain high levels of CBD, as well as the same nutrients, terpenes, and other cannabinoids also found in the natural hemp plant.
RSHO™ offer capsules and liquids in three label options: Green, Blue, and Gold. Green label RSHO™ uses raw hemp oil that preserves the plant’s natural chemical composition, including levels of CBD and CBDa. Blue label RSHO™ uses decarboxylated hemp oil, which maximizes the amount of CBD in our Blue label products. Finally, Gold label RSHO™ uses hemp oil that has been decarboxylated and put through an additional filtration process that removes the hemp oil’s excess plant material and waxes for a refined, golden colored oil. RSHO™ products are available in liquids or capsules.
Our RSHO™ CBD liquids come in 50 ml bottles with 500 mg of total cannabinoids, providing 50 servings of 10 mg of CBD. RSHO™ capsules come in packs of 10 or 30 and have 10 mg of CBD per capsule. Both RSHO™ liquids and capsules are sold in our Green, Blue, and Gold labels.
Looking for a THC product? Real Scientific Cannabis Oil™ products are formulated with high THC cannabis oil derived from either sativa or indica marijuana plants. The oil is then extracted by our expert lab technicians and formulated into our line of THC products.
RSCO™ products are available as cannabis oil drops, sprays, and capsules. Both our sprays and drops come in 30 ml packages with 90 servings of 10 mg of THC. RSCHO™ capsules come in packs of 10 or 30 capsules. Our capsules are available in 5 mg and 10 mg sizes.
All Real Scientific® products are formulated and lab tested by our partners, Salvation Botanicals. The company operates one of the first fully licensed Analytics Laboratories in Canada, accredited by Health Canada to test cannabis flower and cannabis products.
Salvation Botanicals is approved as a contract extract producer, with authority to extract and produce cannabis products within Health Canada guidelines. The company’s in-house analytics team tests products created in the company’s facilities throughout the manufacturing process, utilizing quality controls that exceed Health Canada’s standards.
Visit our blog to learn more about cannabinoids like THC and CBD, our products, and the Real Scientific® brand.
“No pain, no gain.” I’ve endured that taunt since high school. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I’ve always had an extremely high tolerance for physical pain. I once caught an entire high school baseball game with a broken wrist and played left field in another on a broken ankle. I played high school football games with everything from
broken fingers to a torn quadricep. Add alcohol to this disposition in early adulthood, and you end up in your fair share of barroom brawls—replete with face-scarring, broken-bottle swipes, bloody noses, black eyes, and enough face-first collisions with concrete to permanently dimple any chin. Nothing to be proud of, for sure . . . unless, of course, you’re an active alcoholic in need of another tall, barroom tale to tell.
What did I “gain” from all of that pain? On the one hand, not much—not until later, in my late twenties, when I rigorously studied the martial art of Aikido for three years in Japan and learned, for the first time in my life, the true importance of conflict avoidance. On the other hand, physical pain does teach you one valuable lesson: Time heals all that can be healed. Most cuts, bruises, and breaks (if not critical or life threatening) do mend—less and less efficiently as you age, but mend they will.
Emotional pain, however, is entirely different. Time alone has never been enough to heal my emotional pain. For years, from the age of 11 to 38, I had the instant cure for feeling anything; alcohol—properly abused—could dim, dull, or dissolve most any emotion I didn’t care to confront: relationships failed, I drank; my father died, I drank; my wife and I ended our marriage, I drank. I will never forget the sunny morning I left my first wife after 8 years of marriage. I loaded up a newly purchased pickup with my feeble belongings, hopped on I-35 in Kansas City headed for Des Moines and cried all the way to Kearney, Missouri (about 20 minutes outside of KC) where I pulled off, loaded up the cooler in the back seat with beer, and began a three-year celebration of my freedom. That celebration ended one night in 1993 when I fought the law and the law won. That night also marked the beginning of the end of my ability to cure everything with a drink.
What then? What do those of who have never allowed ourselves to feel a genuine emotion do when suddenly, as full-grown but under-matured adults, we are forced to “feel?” If we hope to stay sober and survive, we do exactly what we should have begun to do the day we took our very first drink: Grow up.
For me, and I’m only taking responsibility for my own experience here, “growing up” has meant much more than simply trying to behave in a mature and responsible fashion. That would never have been enough to keep me sober. For me, growing UP has quite literally meant growing upward spiritually to a genuine relationship with a higher power I choose to call God. Time alone has never healed a single emotional wound for me, but time + prayer + meditation + action on a daily basis has made it possible for me to say, in all honestly, I am current with the souls around me and quite content to die in my sleep tonight if that’s what’s in the script.
In subsequent posts, I hope to talk more specifically about how that very formula (time+prayer+meditation+action) has delivered me on more than one occasion from the often dismal shores of emotional pain to the much brighter side of personal gain. I’m hoping that some of you, especially those of you with longer periods of emotional sobriety, will share your own strategies for dealing with emotional setbacks—strategies designed to benefit the newcomer. In other words, I’m hoping we can all join in an active discussion of the solution.
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I didn’t know spiritual guru Dr. Wayne W. Dyer passed over on the 29th, when I was in Honokaa for a relaxing weekend. I was exploring the town’s main street and came across a boutique with a secondhand books section in the back. Bookstores are great, especially since most have closed shop, deferring to books online. Sometimes I will wish for the perfect book to present itself, and it does. This was one of those times.
The store organized its books in broad subject categories, but not by author or title, so I quickly scanned the shelves. I spotted Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks, that is about the Universal Law of Attraction. I had watched a video and listened to some recordings years ago but had not read any of the transcriptions of the channeled messages, such as were in this volume, so I bought the book and pored over it, finished reading it, and hoped I could retain the recipe for joy. Wayne Dyer wrote the Foreword. He wrote:
You’re about to see and experience a whole new world changing right before your eyes. This is a world created by a Source Energy that wants you to reconnect to it and live a life of joyful well-being.
I felt my copy of Ask and It Is Given should stay in Honokaa. The Honokaa area, for me, is a place for healing, where I go to feel whole. I left it with my host as a timely gift of appreciation.
Only when I reached home from vacation a few hours ago did I catch up with the news that Wayne Dyer passed. RIP and many thanks. ~ Rebekah