Six Packs and Cannabis: Canadian Company Loblaw Aims to Add Medical Marijuana to Drugstores
If grocery giant Loblaw Cos. Ltd. gets its way, shoppers eventually will be able to walk out of many of its supermarkets with burgers, beer – and marijuana.
Galen G. Weston, executive chairman of Loblaw, which acquired Shoppers Drug Mart two years ago, said on Thursday that the company is part of a pharmacy industry initiative to push for the sale of medical marijuana at drugstores across the country. Loblaw has pharmacies in many of its grocery stores, which in Ontario and other provinces have the green light to sell beer.
Mr. Weston was careful to say the pharmacists’ association that is advocating for the distribution of medical marijuana in drugstores is not trying to suggest they sell recreational marijuana. In Ontario, for example, Premier Kathleen Wynne has suggested that the province’s liquor stores control the sale of recreational marijuana, he said.
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