Ontario-based privately-run cannabis stores will no longer be allowed to provide delivery or curbside pickup services to customers this month when a provincial emergency order expires, according to a government spokesperson.
"As our province carefully moves towards recovery, the [emergency order] to temporarily allow for cannabis retail curbside pick-up and delivery will end when the declaration of emergency expires along with other temporary measures that had been put in place to support people and business during the public health emergency," said Richard Clark, communications director for Ontario's Finance Minister, in an email to BNN Bloomberg.
Clark added licensed cannabis retail stores are able to reopen with measures to allow physical distancing, such as limiting the number of customers that can enter the store.
Cannabis stores in the country's biggest consumer market were allowed to open and provide additional services such as delivery in April following an emergency order approved by the provincial cabinet amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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