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Becca Roach: The Woman Who Tattooed Lady Gaga
This month, HYPR Magazine's Avneet Sangha interviewed NYC-based Becca Roach on her life and career as a tattoo artist. Becca Roach has tattooed hundreds, including pop artist, Lady Gaga.
What made you want to be a tattoo artist?
The urge…
The Future of Legal Cannabis with Matt Gray
As Canada moves to introduce legal cannabis into the market, business owners are preparing themselves for what the future will hold. Matt Gray is a Toronto-based, cannabis industry leader, and founder of the online platform, Herb.
Herb …
Cannabis, THC and Your Brain
Cannabis is known for its psychoactive side effects that result in a high unlike most other psychoactive drugs, and one that differs depending on the strain of cannabis consumed. Cannabis has the ability to produce more than 400 different…
The Anti-Weed Argument Is So Dumb You Shouldn’t Read It
Many of the concerns revolving around legalizing the recreational use of cannabis address very valid points. A key issue here is not so much that cannabis is a dangerous drug, rather that much of the public has yet to be informed of what…
Canada Is About To Get a Whole Lot Greener: HYPR’s Guide to Weed
Canada's Senate just recently passed Bill C-45, allowing Canadians to recreationally use marijuana. But what is marijuana? What's in it, and where do you get it?
What the U.S. Could Learn From Canada’s Education System
It’s about time Canada is seen as a global leader for more than just mannerisms and an almost obsessive-compulsive habit of saying sorry-a-boot-that.
Using the Consumer to Increase Consumption: How Crowdfunding Helps Small Businesses Grow
As the number of small businesses in Canada continues to grow, the means of finding funding has also changed. Crowdfunding is one way of accruing funding that has been gaining traction in the last decade.
Steps to Start-up: Calgary’s Start-up Ecosystem Explained
As Calgary continues to grow and diversify, so does the business community and the opportunities for new businesses to develop. In a May 2018 report from the City of Calgary’s Economic Development sector it was stated that Calgary has the…
Why You Should Become a Cannabis Entrepreneur
The long wait will soon be over, Canada is looking to officially make marijuana legal across the nation this summer. For those of you who have been following the media coverage surrounding the current landscape of this process, this isn't…
Canada, a Foreign Country
I first arrived in Calgary with one purpose: to study English as a second language at the University of Calgary. At only 19 years I abandoned my family, friends, pets and the ocean breeze of my hometown Mazatlan, Mexico, in order to pursue…