Oshawa weed shop applicants disqualified

[gb123]

One less shwag store and I'm sure there will be more that get denied OR SHOULD lol



Two applicants proposing retail cannabis stores in Oshawa have been disqualified from moving forward.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced Aug. 28 that 12 of 42 applications picked in a lottery earlier in the month had been disqualified. One other applicant withdrew their bid.

As a result, 13 applicants who had been on a wait list were brought forward for an opportunity to receive a license.

The two Oshawa-based applications had both proposed a store at 20 Simcoe Street South.

Four other applicants, all with plans to put a store at the same location in the city, remain on a waiting list.

The AGCO will now continue to assess the eligibility of applicants prior to awarding them a license to open a retail cannabis store.

This includes police and background checks on the application, and on any other interested parties, as well as ongoing reviews for lottery rule violations.

Oshawa’s first cannabis store, Tokyo Smoke, opened in late July after missing the targeted opening date of April 1.

 

[gb123]

waiting list? SINCE WHEN DOES BEING PART OF A LOTTERY MAKE FOR A GUARANTEED WIN WHEN YOUR TIME COMES??

 

[odam2k]

Drove past Tokyo Smoke again today, we shop right there at the Walmart, and again, it was empty, nobody in the store at all... it looks so uninviting, like a dry cleaner pickup counter...

 

[MaddAddam]

Guy says do you know where you can buy any weed around here? I says, "BUY?????" and I gives him a handful. WHY would you buys the pots I says. Fuck the LPs we be givin shit away and they gots no sales! Pass it on my friends as the saying goes!

 

[The Hippy]

Drove past Tokyo Smoke again today, we shop right there at the Walmart, and again, it was empty, nobody in the store at all... it looks so uninviting, like a dry cleaner pickup counter...

Every minute they have no customers they lose money. Lots of staff to pay to stand around.
I've never been in one of these places (not a good place for me to be) but it must be so sad to be such a specimen for the government. In there having morons tell you blah blah blah about this schwagg or that sweepings. WAY over paying if you are stupid enough to buy any.
Then some tool bit with a tablet strapped to their forearm greets you in a sun shiney voice and asks if they can help you. Help me !!! Fuck I'm good thanks. What the hell am I even doing in here would be my thoughts.
These tokyo smoke guys seems greedy as they get from my limited observations.

 

[gb123]

12 applicants disqualified for not submitting documents in Ontario cannabis store lottery

Twelve applicants who were originally selected in the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s second lottery to apply for a cannabis store licence have been disqualified for not providing the proper documentation on time, according to information recently released by the regulator.

“If an applicant failed to meet the requirements, for example, of submitting the necessary materials on time and in order, then they would be disqualified,” Raymond Kahnert, the AGCO’s senior communications advisor, told Global News.

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The deadline for those selected in the lottery to submit the necessary documents to apply for a retail cannabis store licence was 5 p.m. Wednesday, Kahnert said.

The draw for the AGCO’s second cannabis lottery took place earlier this month.

Among the disqualified applicants are three proposed locations in Innisfil that were steps away from each other and two proposed locations that were under the same address in Oshawa.

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One applicant in Toronto that was selected in the lottery withdrew from the application process.

“The next individuals or corporations on the waiting list, in the case of the east region, would receive a letter inviting them to apply and to go through the very same process that the first 42 were invited to,” Kahnert added.

“That is to provide all the necessary information and payment of fees to commence their application and the beginning then of the full eligibility review for a licence.”

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Thirteen applicants on the lottery’s waitlists will replace those that were initially selected who were disqualified or who withdrew from the process, according to Kahnert.

“When people were selected from the allocation lottery, it simply meant they could apply. It didn’t mean they would get a licence,” Kahnert added.

While there were previously two proposed locations in Burlington, there are now four, two of which have the same proposed address. There are also now two proposed locations in London that have the same address.

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“If there’s someone who remains on the selected list at a given address and someone else on that list is disqualified, and if then the next person on the waiting list has an address that is already on the selected list, then that person coming from the waiting list would certainly request a change of address location,” Kahnert said. “They have that right.”

The 13 applicants that were selected from the waitlists will now have to submit the necessary documentation to the AGCO.

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