08/15/2018
Ontario's private sector retail cannabis plan draws pot industry approval.
The new plan — which will see the province launch online cannabis sales on October 17 — means sales at 'bricks and mortar' stores won't begin until April 1, 2019. The recently elected Progressive Conservative dumped the Liberals' plan for the province to keep on a monopoly on cannabis sales that would have seen the government operate 150 brick-and-mortar stores by 2020.
Several cannabis companies and business groups are applauding the Ontario government's new plan to add private retailers to its plans for the sale of recreational pot in the province.