As Cannabis Deadline Looms, 170 Ontario Municipalities Still Have Not Decided on Opting Out of Stores

As the Jan. 22 deadline to accept or decline cannabis shops looms, more than a third of the 414 eligible municipalities in the province have yet to decide. As of Friday afternoon, councils representing some 170 cities, towns, townships and regions across the province had not exercised their option to bar brick-and-mortar pot shops from their precincts. And while some may simply choose to abstain from voting — tacitly accepting the stores under Queen’s Park…