Article by Jeff Lagerquist, Yahoo Finance Canada Toronto’s most notorious illegal cannabis dispensary is among the applicants that met the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s (AGCO) deadline to apply for a licence to open a store. The AGCO said on Friday that 29 of the 42 applicants selected in its latest lottery submitted required documents by the August 28 deadline, and ...

Article by Financial Post The regulator overseeing Ontario’s legal cannabis stores says a dozen licence applicants who participated in the latest lottery have been disqualified. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario held a lottery for the right to apply for one of the next 42 cannabis store licences earlier this month. Those who won the lottery had until Wednesday ...

Article by Laura Kane, Vancouver Sun British Columbia sold less legal cannabis than any province other than Prince Edward Island in the first nine months of legalization, and officials blame supply shortages and a slow rollout of retail stores. Statistics Canada data shows B.C. sold $19.5 million worth of legal pot from October 2018 through June 2019. The only province ...

Article by Doyle Potenteau, Global News Provincial authorities have seized cannabis from an apparently unlicensed dispensary in Vernon that touts itself as having “the best weed” in the city. Two bright orange signs have been placed on the front door and window of Ocean Sprouts Organic Herb stating that “cannabis has been seized by the Community Safety Unit from this location under the ...

Article by Erik White, CBC News It’s been a hazy and confusing road to opening a cannabis store on Mississauga First Nation. But Reg Niganobe, the chief of the community on the north shore of Lake Huron, says he was expecting a bumpy ride. “It’s what we figured,” he says. “Because we’re in a grey area.” Mississauga had originally planned to open ...

Article by Chris Hall, Port Perry Star via DurhamRegion.com Aspiring Scugog pot pedlars came up short in the latest round of Ontario’s cannabis retail store lottery, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying. Various individuals and numbered companies filed a total of 28 expressions of interest for 1874 Scugog St. in Port Perry, where The Cannabis Connoisseur is located. Elsewhere, nine applications ...

Article by Jeff Lagerquist, Yahoo Finance Canada The union representing Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) workers wants the Crown corporation to compete with private cannabis retailers in the province. Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) president Warren “Smokey” Thomas is calling upon the provincial government to run a needs assessment to determine the right number of brick-and-mortar pot shops. He ...

Article by Andrew Duffy, Growth Op Ottawa police are warning the city’s landlords to be aware of the legal jeopardy they could face by renting to illegal pot shops. The warning follows a recent ruling by Judge Peter Doody in which he ordered partial forfeiture of the property at 352 Preston St., a building owned by John Sanders, an Ottawa ...

Article by Caroline Alphonso and Mark Rendell, Globe and Mail Staff at a Toronto Montessori school are concerned that the Ontario government has not taken into account the safety of young children in daycare centres when establishing rules around the distance cannabis stores must be from schools. In detailing regulations for cannabis retail stores in the province late last year, ...

Article by David Clement, Globe and Mail Ontario’s second cannabis retail lottery on Aug. 20 was set up to license an additional 42 stores, which would bring the province’s retail market to the unreasonably low total of 75 stores. Compare that to Alberta, which has 277 licensed cannabis retailers to serve a population of 4.3 million (30 per cent of ...