As COVID-19 changes how legal cannabis can be sold to Canadians, Aphria Inc.'s chief executive thinks the time is right for pot producers to get into the online retail business.
"I want to become what Amazon is to the grocery business," Aphria CEO Irwin Simon told BNN Bloomberg in a phone interview on Wednesday.
As retailers across Canada close their doors to help stop the spread of COVID-19, many cannabis stores have been allowed to sell their products through curbside pickup or delivery services.
Cannabis producers are already allowed to sell medical cannabis directly to patients, but cannot directly sell recreational pot to customers. Canada's cannabis legislation gives provinces the power to manage recreational pot sales through a variety of patchwork policies that differ from province to province.
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