{"id":21477,"date":"2020-02-24T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/ancasters-first-legal-pot-shop-opened-over-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:38:11","slug":"ancasters-first-legal-pot-shop-opened-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/ancasters-first-legal-pot-shop-opened-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancaster&#8217;s first legal pot shop opened over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local cannabis enthusiasts continue to see options of legal retailers continue to grow as new cannabis shop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ancasterjoint.ca\/event-directory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancaster Joint has opened its doors.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The family-run pot shop opened on Saturday morning at Duff&#8217;s Corners on Wilson St. W. However, it won&#8217;t be the only cannabis retailer in the area for long, with Tokyo Smoke scheduled to open sometime next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B83vbCvpRMf\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ancaster Joint is the third provincially-licensed pot shop to open in Hamilton since the rollout of legal cannabis outlets last year. Hello Cannabis and Canna Cabana have been open since last April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new Ancaster retailer is the first of a new wave of legal cannabis shops from the most recent Ontario cannabis license lottery back in August.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If all Hamilton locations listed by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission is Ontario as seeking authorization are successful, then Hamilton will have seven legal pot shops within the next few months.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hamilton shops will be competing with up to five stores located in Burlington, with three already open for business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the nationwide legalization of cannabis, Hamilton had the moniker of the &#8220;cannabis capital&#8221; of Ontario, with about 80 black market shops operating throughout the city.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local cannabis enthusiasts continue to see options of legal retailers continue to grow as new cannabis shop\u00a0Ancaster Joint has opened its doors. The family-run pot shop opened on Saturday morning at ...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":21478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[943,1148,19,20,5131,996,21,4766,4991],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cannabis.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27609,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477\/revisions\/27609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}