First cannabis sold in the Battlefords as prohibition ends
Over 30 people stood eagerly inline outside Fire & Flower Cannabis as passerby honked and hollered in support.
“Welcome cannabis,” Jim Davey said while wielding a massive set of scissors to snip the ribbon on the door of his cannabis retail outlet in North Battleford.
Fire & Flower and Jimmy’s Cannabis in Battleford were two of just a handful of retail outlets ready to serve customers in the province Wednesday as the veil was lifted on cannabis prohibition in Canada, making it the second nation in the world to fully legalize the substance. Uruguay was the first to legalize marijuana in 2013.