Cannabis customers are gobbling up the new edible products introduced this week in Ontario’s legal pot shops.
Stores are selling out of the pot-laced gummies, cookies and chocolates — as well as new vape and tea products — as soon as they hit the shelves, several proprietors say.
“They are going very, very quickly,” says Lana Paraskevopoulos, general manager of the Canvas Cannabis shop on Danforth Ave. “We can’t keep the edibles in stock.”
The same holds true across town, where the so-called cannabis 2.0 products — which will grow to include topical lotions and alcohol-replacement beverages — are flying off the shelves at the Hunny Pot Cannabis Co. on Queen St. W.
Mary Jane has long been a man’s game.
That the common slang term for cannabis — associated with the Spanish-based marijuana — should be feminine belies the reality that the pot world is made up of a large majority of males on both the business and consumer sides.
“More often than not, I’m the only female in the room or at a table,” says Alanna Sokic, a cannabis industry expert with the Toronto consulting firm Global Public Affairs.
“That has sort of just become the norm for me … it’s hard for me to know anything different,” says Sokic, referring to the many pot industry meetings and events she attends. – Read the entire article at The Star.
This is the first year Tom has not felt the need to booby-trap his backyard.
An inveterate pot grower, the North York man says new laws allowing Canadians to raise up to four of the plants per household set his mind at ease for the first time in more than half a century of cannabis cultivation.
“For all the years gone by I used to MacGyver the place,” says Tom, who did not want his last name used. “I would put fishing lines along the ground with tin cans so it would make noise if anybody went back there at nighttime. This year I didn’t worry about any of that, I just let it grow.”
