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The Ontarian Government envisages removal of the obligation to remove the storefront of Cannabis stores, to see the interior of the passers. The old application is the industry, which wants to protect his staff.

In a section of the province budget, there are only a few sentences on the Deposit of May 15: The province wants Improve external visibility Cannabis stores Increase customer and employee comfort and safety.

In practice, this means that sellers should not use a more dyed glass or frozen window to hide the product from the general public. The interior of the store will therefore be visible from the outside.

We are very side. Our company and others are something they asked for a few years.

The high-sea range company has an 82 Canna Cabana brand on Ontario. The number of flights in his shops rose quickly since Pandemia, the director of public communications and issues of Mare, Omar Khan.

Restrictions (display in the window) basically means that no one can do it from the outside store. These stores, therefore, became the target of criminal activities, and in many cases, they were armed flights aimed at the Canavy Product, which were diverted to illegal market then. He said.

Alberta and British Columbia have already changed their approaches to allow visibility in cannabis stores.

It is still present in the illegal market

After almost seven years after legalizing cannabis, most Canadian consumers are buying legal cannabis.

In 2024, 72% of Canadians who consumed Marijuana in the last 12 months were purchased from a legal source, according to Canada statistics. These people include more than two, so in a legal shop, against 5% through a website, such as Cannabis Ontarian Company.

This always leaves space for the illegal market, President of the Canadian Canyon Council, Paul McCarthy. Its organization represents marijuana producers and transformers.

I think (lifting the screen restrictions on the window) is placed in the right direction, people feel more comfortable with legality (product).

Revealing the interior of the shops, which increases the possibilities of attracting consumers that were growing illegally. If legal stores are displayed in light day, it will be more difficult to have an incognitative business.

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And young people?

Shop windows The purpose of the nail was to reduce pedestrian exhibition, especially young people, especially selling products.

Director of the Humber College and Researcher Innovation Center on Cannabis Policy, Daniel BearHowever, it does not believe this new policy would lead to an excessive exhibition.

I found the duty to prohibit the visibility of any deliberate cannabis presented. He said.

No one wants to encourage young people to consume cannabis, but there are many other ways to be so safe to be so safe, blocking the visibility in stores.

Show federal rules and products on packaging remain in force, he stated. So it is not cannabis directly visible in these showcases.

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Paul McCarthy, Paul McCarthy’s representative of producers will go to: Industry does not want to sell his products to young people, but they struggle to demite their products because of frosting window.

We find people against the difficulty of informing the cannabis properly. We need to be able to speak very about real risks of cannabis consumption, what is not really the risk, and the way someone wants to take care of, He said.

In 2023, 43% of young people interviewed by Statistics claimed that they were consumed in cannabis in the last 12 months.