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Tuesday is Last Chance to Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Dispensaries, Ontario Government Warns

Dispensary owners across the province--at least the ones unwilling to risk a future in legal retail--appear to be heeding the warning en masse.

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Tuesday is the final day for illegal cannabis dispensaries to close, with the Ontario government threatening that if they don’t, they’ll be blocked from the legal retail market when it opens in April 2019.

“Anyone operating a storefront after Oct. 17 is doing so illegally,” the Ontario Attorney General’s office said in a statement Monday.

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“Failure to comply with the rules, whether provincial or federal, would preclude someone from obtaining a Retail Operator’s Licence.”

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