First legal cannabis shop opens in Toronto
06 April 2019 |
2:00 pm
The owner of one of the first cannabis stores to open in Ontario speaks with BNN Bloomberg's David George-Cosh about the challenges and opportunities his retail store will have in the still-nascent cannabis market.
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