Real estate race begins for Ontario pot shop locations

With the move to allow private businesses to operate cannabis stores in Ontario, the race is on to secure storefronts.
Actually, it began before the Conservative government announced Monday that it was abandoning plans to sell pot at stores run by a subsidiary of the LCBO.
Officials at four major cannabis companies contacted by this newspaper say they anticipated the possibility of a policy shift to privately run pot shops and had already begun scouting locations. The companies are now building