Article by Harrison Jordan, Leafly Smōk is one of six cannabis retail stores initially licensed to open in the Greater Toronto Area, in addition to five locations in Toronto and 14 elsewhere in the province. The outlet is owned by Alexander Altman, a winner of the lottery that selected 25 applicants to open the first crop of stores in Ontario. It’s also ...

Article by Joseph Hall, Toronto Star There have been product shortages, leasing and construction headaches and licensing hoops so numerous that only 20 of the 25 retail cannabis stores that were scheduled to open April 1 in Ontario have done so. So, how’s business two months in? “It’s hard to say how lucrative it’s been,” says Matt Maurer, vice-chair of ...

Article by TbNewsWatch.com A so-called pot shop on the Fort William First Nation that was rumoured to open on Tuesday is in fact illegal according to Anishinabek Police Service. More than two dozen people gathered outside of Bubba’s Bud and Smoke located on City Road Tuesday afternoon for the opening. A sign out front also advertised that the establishment was ‘now ...

Article by Blair Adams, Kitchener Today Three people are facing charges after Ontario Provincial Police and Waterloo Regional Police executed a search warrant at an alleged illegal cannabis storefront in Cambridge. On Wednesday May 29, police said they seized cannabis, rolled cannabis cigarettes, as well as weapons and cash. Two Cambridge residents – 21-year-old Justine Ann-Marie Mancebo and 44-year-old Pritzila ...

Article by Bay Today We’ll know soon if North Bay is in line for its first pot store. Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli told CKAT that the government will be announcing details in the near future on the where the next round of cannabis stores will be located. He says the government took a “measured approach” at first by going online ...

Article by Toronto Star The City of Vancouver says nine illegal marijuana dispensaries must close down while they wait for the outcome of a legal challenge at the B.C. Court of Appeal. The city says the Appeal Court denied a stay of a B.C. Supreme Court decision that ordered the dispensaries named in a lawsuit to close. In 2016 and 2017, the ...

Article by Douglas Quan, National Post In the spring of 2014, RCMP officers in Kelowna, B.C. prepared a press release about a big drug bust at the local airport. It described how investigators had intercepted two shipments of marijuana of “unfathomable quantity” that were bound for a couple of licensed cannabis producers in Ontario. The press release, however, was never ...

Article by Nick Boisvert, CBC News There’s a back room at Toronto’s historic Broadview Faith Temple that looks a lot like a cannabis dispensary, but the man who will be running the place describes it differently. “This is where members of the Rastafarian faith [will] come in and get sacrament,” said David Holmes, 52, the founder of the Sanctuary of the ...

Article by Marcy Nicholson, Globe and Mail AGLC lifts cannabis retail licence freeze AGLC will issue five retail licences weekly Retail licence moratorium could be reinstated if inventory takes “drastic downturn” Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) has lifted its moratorium on cannabis retail licences due to improved supplies and will issue five licences weekly going forward, the government agency ...

Article by Shane Fowler, CBC News When cannabis was first legalized in Canada, customers immediately criticized the excessive plastic packaging that came with it. Some products generated as much as 70 grams of plastic and cardboard for one gram of marijuana. But that is starting to change. Some products, offered in pill containers, have shed the outer cardboard boxes and shrink-wrapped plastic ...