York Regional Police are investigating recently opened storefronts on Yonge Street that appear to be dispensing medical marijuana.
What started out as one store — with a street sign “Cannibliss” — has sprouted into two, both targeting the growing demand for marijuana.
Local Councillor Tom Muench said the store owners report business is booming.
“They’ve tripled in size in the last few weeks; they’re growing exponentially.”
Not so fast, York police say.
“There’s no such thing as a medical marijuana dispensary licence,” said Detective Sergeant Peter Casey of the drug and vice unit.
The facts, however, may be confusing.
The first storefront, which called itself Cannibliss, opened several weeks ago at Yonge and Centre streets — a slickly decorated shop with quiet music and glass cases displaying small packages and bottles.
On a recent day, a young male customer discussed product with a staff person while another leafed through pages at a table. Three men waited on clients, but did not provide information to The Liberal about the business, promising instead to respond “soon” to questions.
The website, Cannibliss.com, offered a selection of marijuana-based products, but that site disappeared from the web briefly, reappearing again in recent days to announce the store would be “opening soon”.
The original store appears now to be operating under the name CannaClubs by Sativa & Kush. The website says it the GTA’S premiere dispensary, open seven days a week.
Benny Bisogno, Cannibliss director, said his shop will open soon, offering “medical access to medicinal marijuana”.
Once he has ensured a customer’s prescription from a doctor is “legit and not expired ... then we validate access to the club. We provide them ways to ingest and smoke their medication” with different strains, edibles and tinctures plus topical creams for skin conditions.
He would not say where his store gets the marijuana.
Bisogno said he has been smoking pot for 10 years.
“I had a bad motorcycle accident. I was in such pain and the doctors wanted me to take Oxycodene and Percocet and I kept refusing.”
Marijuana helped, he said.
“Opiates and codeines are not the way to go.”
Pot stores sprout up in downtown Richmond Hill
What started out as one store — with a street sign “Cannibliss” — has sprouted into two, both targeting the growing demand for marijuana.
Local Councillor Tom Muench said the store owners report business is booming.
“They’ve tripled in size in the last few weeks; they’re growing exponentially.”
Not so fast, York police say.
“There’s no such thing as a medical marijuana dispensary licence,” said Detective Sergeant Peter Casey of the drug and vice unit.
The facts, however, may be confusing.
The first storefront, which called itself Cannibliss, opened several weeks ago at Yonge and Centre streets — a slickly decorated shop with quiet music and glass cases displaying small packages and bottles.
On a recent day, a young male customer discussed product with a staff person while another leafed through pages at a table. Three men waited on clients, but did not provide information to The Liberal about the business, promising instead to respond “soon” to questions.
The website, Cannibliss.com, offered a selection of marijuana-based products, but that site disappeared from the web briefly, reappearing again in recent days to announce the store would be “opening soon”.
The original store appears now to be operating under the name CannaClubs by Sativa & Kush. The website says it the GTA’S premiere dispensary, open seven days a week.
Benny Bisogno, Cannibliss director, said his shop will open soon, offering “medical access to medicinal marijuana”.
Once he has ensured a customer’s prescription from a doctor is “legit and not expired ... then we validate access to the club. We provide them ways to ingest and smoke their medication” with different strains, edibles and tinctures plus topical creams for skin conditions.
He would not say where his store gets the marijuana.
Bisogno said he has been smoking pot for 10 years.
“I had a bad motorcycle accident. I was in such pain and the doctors wanted me to take Oxycodene and Percocet and I kept refusing.”
Marijuana helped, he said.
“Opiates and codeines are not the way to go.”
Pot stores sprout up in downtown Richmond Hill
