Article by Brennan Doherty, StarMetro Calgary Very few businesses long to be regulated. Baked Edibles is one of them. For the last three years, the Victoria, B.C.-based company has supplied edibles and topicals — such as salves and massage oils — to around 500 businesses across Canada. It remains an underground operation; these popular products were not legalized along with ...

Article by Toronto CTV News The Ontario cannabis retail regulator says private pot retailers will not be able to offer a click-and-collect service that would allow consumers to buy online and pick it up at the physical store. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario says cannabis customers will have to order and purchase pot products in person at licensed ...

Article by Global News A privately-owned cannabis store in Newfoundland is closing, and the manager says supply issues are largely to blame. Puff Puff Pass Headshop in Clarenville, N.L., is the province’s first private weed store casualty since recreational marijuana was legalized in October. It is one of just six private, regulated cannabis retailers in Newfoundland and Labrador, and will ...

Article by Net News Ledger On January 29, 2019, members of the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team (PJFCET) of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with members of the North West Region Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) executed a search warrant at a local business identified as Winnipeg River Naturals located on Highway 17E in City of Kenora, Ontario. ...

Article by Carlie Green, 420 Intel The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp. (OCRC) posted a tender call last week for couriers so that they can offer same-day delivery. According to the OCRC, the program is supposed to launch in early March and will be focused on the Greater Toronto Area to start. “As OCRC’S marketplace evolves, the ability for the organization ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, The Hamilton Spectator Two more cannabis dispensaries in Hamilton have been targeted by police, their doors barred, locks changed and alarm systems installed, bringing the total number of illegal storefronts seized here to eight. On Wednesday, officers from the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team, which includes three Hamilton officers, executed warrants at two dispensaries in a ...

Article by Neil Macdonald, CBC News I know a pot dealer in Montreal. He’s been dealing weed and hash for decades. He’s an efficient capitalist; he guarantees customer satisfaction. Quality product and fast, free delivery. He’s never been busted, either, to my knowledge, which I guess makes him a pretty smart dealer. In any case, you’d think with legalization, and all ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, The Hamilton Spectator When Tamara Hirsh created Pacifico, a now shuttered cannabis dispensary chain, she hoped it would set the gold standard for what legal stores should look like. “When I endeavoured with Pacifico I had a goal that I was going to build the benchmark that Health Canada was going to look to as what bricks and ...

Article by Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) is looking to expand its network of partners, including for same-day deliveries and risk management services. Adding same-day home delivery service – including an interface that links to its website – “to meet customers’ expectations is imperative to the growth of its e-commerce business,” according to the OCS’ tender offering. ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, The Hamilton Spectator A day after police closed all four Hamilton locations of an illegal cannabis dispensary, changing the locks and barring the doors, Georgia Peach simply moved down the road and opened shop. On Friday, the chain opened at 76 George St., in Hess Village, in the former location of another dispensary, the Blue Ox, and ...