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Toronto’s pot shop reckoning is here — industry watchers predict up to a third of our stores will close

Since applying for her cannabis retail licence, Sasha Soeterik had been biding her time, operating a coffee and gelato shop in Toronto’s trendy Trinity Bellwoods neighbourhood while she waited for her application to go through.

The province had been ramping up approvals ever since it scrapped the controversial lottery system it initially used to give out cannabis retail licences, replacing it with an open licensing model.

Near to me is the Queensway, its been overrun by pot shops.

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