news CANNABIS After one-year freeze, rush is on to buy out Ontario’s first wave of cannabis retail lottery winners Prominent cannabis retail chains including Fire & Flower and High Tide are in the process of taking ownership control of Ontario cannabis retail stores By Vanmala Subramaniam A clause in the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)’s rules allows stores that won the first cannabis retail lottery round to be sold after one year. Chris Wattie/Reuters files The Hunny Pot store in Toronto. Peter J. Thompson/National Post files

2019-12-19