Windsor’s fourth legal cannabis store is holding its grand opening with a fundraiser for the city’s less fortunate.
Boondom, in Pillette Village, officially opens its doors to the public on Friday.
“I think you’re going to see a real welcoming vibe that’s missing in the Windsor community in this particular type of retail environment,” says co-owner Simon Reid.
People searching for medicinal cannabis will likely be able to find what they need on a well-known Canadian drug store’s website.
Shoppers Drug Mart will partner with Alberta-based Atlas Biotechnologies to provide smoke free, fast-acting products for patients across Canada.
Sheldon Croome, president and CEO of Atlas, says the products are tailored towards the over 50 baby boomer generation and also seniors who want safe, easy and consistent dosages.
Rob O’Neill used to dread being called to the principal’s office at Leesboro Central Public School in Thorndale, Ont., but now it’s his office as CEO of the JC Green Cannabis Company.
O’Neill said in a statement, “It’s a really incredible experience to return to my school, which always had a sense of small-town community, to revive the energies where young minds were cultivated, and placing those energies into the operations at JC Medicinal.”
JC Green produces cannabis at its cultivation facility at the former Thames Valley District School Board site. The school was closed in 2009 and rezoned in 2018.
Windsor city council will be presented with three applications for retail cannabis stores at its upcoming meeting on Monday.
“The We Store” submitted three separate applications to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario for retail shops, one at 1565 Wyandotte St. E, the second at 6038 Tecumseh Rd. E and a third at 1800 Huron Church Rd.
Once the application is processed by the AGCO, it notifies the city, which in turn has 15 days to respond.
Researchers at the University of Lethbridge say while clinical trials still need to be done, data they’ve been collecting over the past four years shows promise that some cannabis extracts may help in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
Olga and Igor Kovalchuk have been working with cannabis since 2015, using varieties from around the world to create new hybrids and develop extracts that demonstrate certain therapeutic properties.
‘There’s a lot of documented information about cannabis in cancer, cannabis in inflammation, anxiety, obesity and what not,” says Igor. “When COVID-19 started, Olga had the idea to revisit our data, and see if we can utilize it for COVID.”
“It was like a joker card, you know, coronavirus. It just mixes up everybody’s plans,” says Olga.
People looking to get weed from their local pot shops may be in luck a little while longer.
The provincial government on Tuesday passed an emergency order allowing for legal cannabis stores to offer curbside delivery and pickup service.
The order was approved by cabinet and signed into law by Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell this afternoon, according to a spokesperson from the Ministry of the Attorney General.
Cannabis stores across Ontario will have to close as of Saturday night after the provincial government removed them from their list of essential businesses.
Many non-essential businesses in the province have been closed under government order since March 24, but cannabis and liquor stores have remained open.
At the time the initial list of what would remain open and what would have to close during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said mental health and addiction experts voiced that is was “absolutely critical” to keep these stores open.
Quebecers will continue to be able to procure alcohol and cannabis at the government-run stores that sell them, which will not be closed as part of a widespread shutdown of non-essential businesses in Quebec.
Premier Francois Legault announced the closing, as of midnight tomorrow and until April 13, of all non-essential businesses in the province in hopes of stemming the spread of COVID-19.
But even before the official government list of essential services and businesses that can continue to operate was released. the SAQ and SQDC, Quebec’s official purveyors of alcohol and cannabis, announced they will remain open, albeit with a limit on the number of clients permitted at any given time to respect physical distancing guidelines.
Provincial cannabis distributors across the country are making changes to protect consumers and employees and help deal with a spike in demand amid COVID-19.
The Ontario Cannabis Store says it has suspended same-day and next-day deliveries because of a “higher-than-normal” volume of orders.
The OCS, the Quebec pot distributor Societe quebecoise du cannabis and B.C. Cannabis Stores also warn that Canada Post is no longer delivering parcels that require a signature or proof-of-age to customer doors.
Soon after cannabis products started flying off shelves following legalization, Canopy Growth Corp. had a $26.9 million problem.
The Smiths Falls, Ont.-based company told investors and analysts during a November conference call to discuss its financial results that it was grappling with $20.5 million worth of product being returned from provincial retailers and bracing itself for another $6.4 million worth that was on the way.
In the previous quarter it had taken an $8-million writedown for unsold oil and gel caps.
Canada Post has asked cannabis producers to stop shipping marijuana to a small island in Eastern Canada, in order to curb a sharp increase in the number of mail trucks being stopped and searched by U.S. border officials.
Campobello Island, located off the southwestern tip of New Brunswick, is accessible year-round only by a bridge from the American state of Maine, so all mail to the community must pass briefly through the United States.
Over the last year, residents have been experiencing a rise in the number of their letters and packages being searched and seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities.
The gap between what Canadians pay for legal and illicit cannabis is widening — a sign experts say points to the need for the marijuana industry to make prices a priority this year.
Statistics Canada said Thursday that the average price of legal cannabis increased to $10.30 per gram in the period between October and December 2019 from $9.69 per gram the year before.
The change came as the average price of illegal cannabis fell to $5.73 per gram in that fourth quarter from $6.44 per gram a year earlier and as the overall average price of cannabis rose to $7.50 per gram, an increase from $7.46 per gram a year earlier.
The agency based its conclusions on price quotes gathered using its StatsCannabis crowdsourcing application between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31. Out of 291 price submissions, 248 of were deemed plausible, it said.
