Article by Taylor Blewett, Growth Op Ottawa looks poised to get three new pot shops after applicants proposing locations in Orléans and Carlington were moved off the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario waitlist into the group of 42 lucky lottery winners who can apply for cannabis retail store licenses. The AGCO’s second pot shop lottery was held Aug. 20, ...

Article by Brendan Bures, Fresh Toast via Windsor Star Throughout the legalization movement, a growing concern has been marijuana users while high. This is not an alarmist worry, either. One poll found that more than half of habitual cannabis users believe they can drive while stoned. In addition, a study released by AAA reported that more than 15 million Americans have gotten behind the ...

Article by Shelby Thom, Global News The City of Penticton is forging ahead with approving more cannabis retail store licenses, more than 10 months after federal legalization. In a report to city council, planning manager Blake Laven recommends that city hall support three more non-medical cannabis retail store licenses, which would bring the total to 11. The three locations are ...

Article by Raymond Bowe, Orillia Matters The provincial agency that oversees retail cannabis in Ontario has sifted through the mountains of applications and begun to weed some out. Last week, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced winners in the second round of the retail cannabis lottery, which included one potential operator in Barrie, who then had the ...

Article by Jesse Ship, Leafly Lakeside yoga sessions, an attempt at rolling the world’s longest joint, and a trippy, 420-friendly screening of The Dark Side of Oz. Find out more about these events and more canna-centric happenings taking place across Ontario this month. … Toronto MJBizCon Int’l When: September 4 to 6 Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Hall 75 speakers, 150 ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News The Ontario Cannabis Store sells licensed producers data based on customers’ addresses, Global News has learned. That’s contrary to its own privacy policy, a leading privacy expert says. The address data is broken down by the first three characters of customers’ postal codes. The postal areas vary in population. The average one in Ontario has about 25,000 ...

Article by Alan Shackleton, Beach Metro Community News Randall’s Stationery on Kingston Road will close its doors in early September, ending more than 80 years of business for the store in the community. Founded in 1934 by the Randall family, the store has been operated since 2003 by JinWoo Lee and HaeKyung Shin who bought it from the family at ...

Article by Graeme McNaughton, Guelph Mercury Tribune Those looking to legally buy weed in downtown Guelph may be out of luck. According to a post on the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s website, an application for a potential store at 120 Wyndham St. N. has been disqualified. The AGCO cites the rule under the lottery that selected entries must ...

Article by Lauren O’Neil, BlogTO Halifax likes cannabis, Edmonton prefers meth and Vancouverites are into morphine (… and coke, and also meth). This is what federal government scientists were able to determine through the results of a 12-month-long pilot project that tested municipal wastewater samples across five major Canadian cities for traces of at least a dozen different drugs. “Accurate measures ...

Article by Joanna Lavoie, Toronto.com Three new cannabis stores could soon open in Toronto’s east end. The proposed locations for the pot shops are 1303 Queen St. E. in Leslieville; 964 Kingston Rd. in the Upper Beach; and 730 Danforth Ave., Suite 1 in Greektown. Another cannabis retailer has been selected to open up shop in Scarborough in the Birch ...