Article by CBC News By-law enforcement officers are continuing to investigate 21 “suspected illegal cannabis storefronts” in Toronto, city officials said Wednesday. A total of nine officers from Toronto’s Municipal Standards and Licensing department are assigned to probe individual locations, issue closure orders and seize cannabis products and money, the city said in a news release. In the six months since pot was ...

Article by CBC News Wednesday marks six months since the province of Ontario became our first legal pot dealer. Recreational marijuana use became legal in Canada on Oct 17, and the online Ontario Cannabis Store opened for business the same day, not always to glowing reviews. It would be another five and a half months before Ottawa’s first licensed bricks-and-mortar pot shops opened ...

Article by Ryan Flanagan, CTV News Six months after cannabis was legalized in Canada, many of the people who entered the sector in search of a financial windfall appear ready to turn their attention elsewhere. “We’re very bullish on the globe, on the U.S. — not so much on Canada,” Loren DeFalco said Tuesday at a cannabis investors’ conference in ...

Article by CityNews Toronto The third legal retail cannabis store is set to open this Saturday after the store’s license was issued by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission. Nova Cannabis had reached a licence agreement with one of the lottery winners selected to apply for one of the first 25 cannabis retail licences in Ontario. The chief executive of Alcanna ...

Article by Quintin Bignell, CityNews Bylaw officers in Toronto installed a large metal door in an effort to keep an illegal pot shop in CityPlace closed during a raid on Tuesday. Officials told CityNews that the operators of the dispensary known as Café, on Fort York Boulevard, bypassed new locks that were installed in another raid by the city on ...

Article by Calum Marsh, Windsor Star One mild afternoon a few weeks ago, out on Queen Street West in flannels, walking my girlfriend’s Dachshund, I was approached by a man with a beseeching look. “Hey there,” he said, a touch of Staten Island in the accent. “Do you know where I can buy some pot?” Well, sure, I started—you just ...

Article by Giuseppe Valiante, CityNews Lewis Mitchell, a former police chief on the Mohawk territory of Akwesasne, chuckled when asked if he thought he would have trouble finding customers when his first batch of cannabis is ready for sale around summertime. “No, not at all,” the president of Seven Leaf said at his company’s production facility along the St. Lawrence River, about 130 kilometres southwest of ...

Article by Darren MacDonald, Soo Today It’s not April 1, when cannabis retail stores were allowed to open, but the Canna Cabana store on Long Lake road is opening April 20, a day marijuana enthusiasts have long celebrated as a sort of international pot celebration day. Store owner Mike Colborne of Saturninus Partners confirmed Monday they received the green light ...

Article by Cillian O’Brien, CTV News Cannabis prices in Canada have soared since legalization with prices on the black market now reportedly less than half that of licensed dispensaries. The average cost of a dried gram has rocketed since legalization last October, according to users who voluntarily entered what they paid into a Statistics Canada app. The difference between legal and illegal ...

Article by High Tide, New Cannabis Ventures High Tide Inc. (“High Tide” or the “Company”) (CSE:HITI) (OTCQB:HTDEF) (FRA:2LY), an Alberta-based, retail-focused cannabis corporation enhanced by the manufacturing and wholesale distribution of smoking accessories and cannabis lifestyle products, announced that on Friday, April 12, 2019 the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (“AGCO”) approved and issued Retail Operator Licences (the “Licences”) to High Tide’s counterparties Steven Fry and Saturninus ...