Cannabis stores across Ontario will have to close as of Saturday night after the provincial government removed them from their list of essential businesses.
The gains cannabis companies were banking on in the lead-up to legalization of recreational sales in October 2018 have not materialized. So, what went sideways?
“We’re considered an ‘essential service,’” one dealer told BuzzFeed News. “Which is a mixed blessing because I have to pay for my divorce and rent but I’m immunocompromised.”
Canadian officials are turning to the cannabis industry to see if laboratories typically used to check for cannabinoids can be also used to test for COVID-19.
Cannabis may be “uniquely positioned to weather the storm” of COVID-19, tax and data experts declared during a webinar Wednesday for 500 cannabis businesspeople.
Production workers at a Southwestern Ontario cannabis company could be the first in Canada’s marijuana industry to unionize, a move one union official hopes will create a “ripple effect” across the sector.
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