It would appear that Temple Medicinal Dispensary is a casualty of marijuana legalization.
In a facebook post Monday, Oct. 15th, 2018, the Sault’s first and only medicinal marijuana dispensary sent out the following message to its registered patients.
“It’s with a heavy heart, and deepest sympathies, that we here at Temple Medicinal are announcing that we will no longer be able to serve Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma district with high quality Cannabis and Cannabis products as of Oct 17,2018.
The federal government has made the fines and consequences too high. Legalization is here and we need to work within the legal framework to ensure our future success. We have come up with a temporary solution until we can move to the legal format. We will be looking into working with an LP and waiting for the legal framework for dispensaries so we can apply and reopen as a legal entity again. We will still be at our location signing people up to become legal medical cannabis patients until we figure out our retail strategies.”
The post concluded by thanking those registered with Temple Medicinal for their patronage and support.
Saultonline will continue to follow the rapidly changing landscape as marijuana legalization takes hold in exactly one day.
everyone knew this was coming…did anyone expect different? getting an LP for an individual is as easy as asking a doc for one, if you can’t get to a doc, buds2go is currently signing everyone up for free, i think the doc consultation is done online… they are a BC based company that i have been buying from for more than a year. I am legal to buy from any LP but they have the best prices and awesome sales
It’s not at all as easy or the same process and there is currently no application for retail establishments. This is beyond brick and mortar stores.
They wanted the money folks……there was never a plan to let private citizens make money on this.
Jay
Places operating now should have easy access to full implementation….forget the red tape. Give them first crack at the legal operation .
Welcome to prohibition 2.0. Sorry to see this happen. Hope you’re able to reopen soon!
Yeah… because the changes in the legal marijuana laws were kept a secret and businesses has zero opportunities to adjust their business plans.
So thy can keep more money
There is currently no application process for retail establishments. What do you suggest they do? Make their own? They’re doing exactly what the government wants them to do.
What do suggest … special exemption because the new laws dont fit their business plan ? Btw … there is more than one site selling online (the only approved manner of selling) there is a process in which those companies got approval
Daryn Marsh the only legally operating MOM is the Ontario Cannabis Store and licensed LP’s. (Which are part of the 3%)
Point is you can’t follow rules when the government hasn’t provided a retail outlet framework.
ha ha
Firstly.. what 3% are “they” part of … and the government has provided, they just did it in an online instead of a retail format.
If the federal government didn’t rush in decriminalization places like this would have had the time to do the paperwork to stay open .
There is no paperwork at the moment for them !!
Michael I didn’t know that..There definitely should be
There is no application prcess for retail because the government wants monopolize the market, currently less than 3 percent of applications for LP have been approved.
they didn’t rush it in, been working on it for years, just didn’t really put a lot of thought into the many aspects of legalization, it’s just the typical Ontario gov, putting your tax dollars to work,
Amanda Holmes where did you get that 3% stat
The government shouldn’t shut them down at all . They should be getting these companies the information/paper work to get this process approved so it could have been kept open, unless the application failed then send notice to reapply or shut down or etc.
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