Ontario plans to begin licensing some private retailers to sell marijuana as early as next April but Attorney General Caroline Mulroney says that her government has no plans to permit dispensaries that have been flouting existing laws to participate in the legal market.
Mulroney sat down with CP24 for a one-on-one interview on Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours after the Progressive Conservative government unveiled its plans for the legalization of marijuana on Oct. 17.
Those plans include online sales through the provincially-run Ontario Cannabis Store as of Oct. 17 and then sales in private retail stores, beginning in April.
Mulroney said that while her government hasn’t “made any determinations” about which private establishments will be permitted to sell marijuana and what licensing criteria will exist, she said that dispensaries that have been operating illegally will be excluded.
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