Pubdate: Sun, 16 Oct 2016
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2016 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact: http://www.ottawasun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Jacquie Miller
Page: 7

POT SHOP BACK IN BUSINESS AFTER GETTING SMASHED

Customers at a suburban pot shop were buying their weed from a
take-out window carved into a boarded-up storefront on Saturday.

The front of the CannaGreen dispensary on Roydon Place, near Hunt Club
and Merivale roads, was destroyed Thursday night after a truck drove
into it.

The front of the illegal dispensary is now boarded up, but a hole has
been cut in the plywood to create a take-out window. Customers stood
on the sidewalk to order their dried weed, cannabis-laced cookies,
candy and pop.

"It's pretty crazy," said a 20-year-old student who came with his
buddy to check out the pot shop. He said the shop charges a bit more
for marijuana than street dealers, but he feels safer. "It's
convenient. You don't have to get robbed. And you don't know what
you're getting from the streets, it could be sprayed.

"This is a medical dispensary. You're going to get good stuff
here."

CannaGreen is one of about 16 marijuana dispensaries in town. They are
all illegal, according to the federal government, which warns that the
products sold there are unregulated and possibly unsafe.

That hasn't stopped hundreds of customers from flocking to the pot
shops.

Another middle-aged customer at CannaGreen said he uses marijuana to
help his PTSD. He is signed up to buy medical marijuana legally from a
producer licensed by Health Canada.

But he supports the free market, said the man, who like the other
customers did not want to be identified. He can buy a greater variety
of products at the dispensary, in smaller quantities, than from the
legal producers, said the man.
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