Cannabis Delivery to Continue in Ontario?
COVID-19 Makes Country Re-Think Regulations Including Cannabis Delivery – LPC
Cannabis delivery may stick around once COVID-19 has passed. The Ontario government lifted the ban on cannabis delivery and pickup in April when retail stores started to shut down. This was shortly after the government shut down cannabis stores due to the pandemic.
Mimi Lam, CEO and co-founder of Superette, would support the decision to keep cannabis delivery.
“We have a few drivers and they are on shift,” Lam said. “We intake all the orders and we map out the routes.” She added that customers can get their delivery “within a couple of hours”.
“The more deregulation there is, the more championing there is by key policy makers, the brighter the future for this sector,” Lam said.
Steve Globerman, a senior fellow and economist with the Fraser Institute, said that some regulations might be outmoded.
“There may have been some purpose for it sometime in the past. And I emphasize ‘may have been some purpose for it’ but often that purpose has been outmoded by developments, new technology, more knowledge and economic imperatives,” Globerman said.
With the changes made recently, it is hard to think why we should ever go back. Regulations are important. They help keep our children safe and the black market down. But over-regulation can be bad, too. Many believe Ontario’s delay in opening up retail cannabis licences are part of the financial problems cannabis companies are facing. It’s encouraging to see Canada’s most populous province open up and embrace new ideas like cannabis delivery and farm-gate cannabis.
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