Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen Canopy Growth Corp. in Smiths Falls has nabbed another Ontario cannabis store that will carry the name of one of its brands. A cannabis lottery winner plans to open a store called Tokyo Smoke 333 Yonge in Toronto, according to a posting Tuesday by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Canopy owns the Tokyo Smoke ...

Article by Josh Dehaas, CTV News Enough recreational dried cannabis was sold through Canadian retailers between legalization on October 17, 2018 and New Year’s Eve to fill more than 31 million joints. Statistics Canada reports that 4,518 kilograms of non-medical dried cannabis was sold in October, 5,586 kilograms was sold in November, and 5,590 kilograms was sold in December. That equates to ...

Article by CBC News A Burlington-based retailer can start getting ready to open after receiving one of the province’s first cannabis licences. Retail store authorization for David Nguyen, listed as the operator of RELM Cannabis, was announced Monday by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO). The AGCO lists RELM’s address as 103 – 4031 Fairview St. in Burlington. The government regulator states that once retail store ...

Article by Tara Deschamps, Toronto Star When Clint Seukeran spotted the email revealing he would be among the first Ontarians to get the chance to open a cannabis store, he thought the missive was spam. Then his brother took a peek and pointed out it was real. “My first reaction was shock, but then I realized we have a lot ...

Article by Michael J. Armstrong, The Record Squeezing out black markets is a key goal of cannabis legalization. Legalization also lets governments tax cannabis production and consumption. Canada has achieved limited progress so far toward those potentially conflicting goals. But some provinces have made good starts. Statistics Canada says that during 2018’s fourth quarter, consumer cannabis spending totalled $1.478 billion. ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, London Free Press An Ontario pot lottery winner who is opening a retail store in London has turned to a cannabis company with a proven track record of success. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the province’s pot regulator, granted one of the first three cannabis retail licences to Chris Comrie, who hired Ontario Cannabis ...

Article by Vanmala Subramaniam, Financial Post It’s been a bumpy first few months for cannabis retailers in Canada, with product shortages and regulatory uncertainty dominating public discussion. As Ontario’s first wave of bricks-and-mortar stores get ready to open on April 1, the Financial Post’s Vanmala Subramaniam spoke to four people on the front lines about what’s working, what isn’t and ...

Article by Kevin Maimann, Star Edmonton Selling CBD without a licence is risky business, but some local stores are stocking it even as the pot police threaten jail time. After waiting five months for purveyors of pot to get used to the new rules around selling marijuana products like CBD-infused oils, creams even dog treats, Edmonton police have a list ...

Article by Uttara Choudhury, Proactive Investors The Flowr Corporation (TSX-V:FLWR) (OTC:FLWPF) announced Monday that its FlowrRx products are now available for purchase through Shoppers Drug Mart’s online medical cannabis site. On January 9, the two companies confirmed a sales agreement. Under the pact, Shoppers Drug Mart will be the exclusive direct-to-patient online provider of FlowrRx products. Previously, FlowrRx products were available online to patients ...

Article by Solomon Israel, Leaf News Canada’s legal cannabis industry is starting to come to grips with its waste problem: an avalanche of pot packaging that’s good at meeting regulatory demands, but tricky to recycle. Federal cannabis regulations don’t directly tell producers what materials to use in their packaging, but they do require marijuana containers be opaque or semitransparent, guard against contamination, keep cannabis ...