Article by Armina Ligaya, CTV News Ontario’s decision to not cap the number of privately-operated cannabis shops has been welcomed by industry players, but market share restrictions on licensed producers and the lack of clarity on where marijuana stores can be located may pose headwinds for the sector. The province’s private-retail framework is positive for smaller retailers who won’t get ...

Article by Christina Pellegrini and Marina Strauss, The Globe and Mail Cannabis growers’ plans to expand into retail in Ontario are in limbo after the province unveiled legislation on Thursday that would limit their share of Canada’s largest market. . The proposed law would restrict marijuana producers and their affiliates to operating just one retail store at one production site. ...

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Article by Jason Markusoff, MacLean’s The Ontario cabinet ministers appeared grim-faced and resolved to fight as they made their announcement against—at least it sounded like it was against—legal access to cannabis. The province’s cannabis strategy, Attorney General Caroline Mulroney explained, is based on key elements like protecting roads, keeping pot from minors and tackling organized crime. The Tory stressed terms like ...

Article by Paola Loriggio and Shawn Jeffords, CTV News Ontario could have up to 1,000 private pot shops after recreational cannabis is legalized, the province’s Progressive Conservatives said Thursday, significantly more stores than planned under the previous Liberal government. While introducing legislation to create a regulatory regime for cannabis sales, the government said it expected a flood of applications from ...

Article by Kevin Maimann, StarMetro Edmonton Profit margins will be tight for cannabis retailers next month, an Edmonton business professor says, after the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission released its list of wholesale prices. . All legal retailers will have to buy through AGLC, and the commission recently sent them a list pegging their average price per gram at ...

Article by Tyler Nyquvest, Business in Vancouver via Richmond News The legalized cannabis market in Canada could hasten western adoption of plant-based medicines, opening up new frontiers in health care, advocates say. “I feel that cannabis is the first step toward a lot of our issues in health care and mental health,” said Salimeh Tabrizi, clinical counsellor and organizer and ...

Article by CBC News Ontario residents will be able to smoke recreational cannabis wherever the smoking of tobacco is permitted, the Progressive Conservative government said Wednesday, loosening rules established by the previous Liberal regime. The government will also not put a cap on pot shops when it starts licensing and regulating the province’s private cannabis retail marketplace, and municipalities will ...

Article by Justin Giovannetti, Christina Pellegrini and Marina Strauss, Globe and Mail The Ontario government is setting a framework for recreational cannabis retailing that emphasizes widespread competition and deals a blow to licensed marijuana producers by limiting their share of the market. Finance Minister Vic Fedeli and Attorney-General Caroline Mulroney said on Wednesday during a joint news conference that there ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, Hamilton Spectator via Toronto Star When recreational cannabis becomes legal next month, Canadians are likely to prefer buying the drug legally, over the black market, so long as it’s well-priced. That’s the findings from two studies surveying hundreds of pot users in United States, where the drug has been legalized, and in Ontario, where it’s about ...