As Canada enters its fifth full year of adult-use legalization, one type of marijuana business has been largely missing in action: legal cannabis consumption spaces, which remain relatively rare.
Although authorities have issued outdoor cannabis consumption licenses for events such as music festivals, Canada’s provincial governments have been slow to create a legal framework for permanent marijuana consumption spaces – if they have addressed the issue at all.
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As a result, Canada’s market for cannabis consumption lounges is underdeveloped in comparison to U.S. jurisdictions such as California and Nevada, where such businesses are becoming part of the regulated industry landscape.
“Right now, cannabis consumption is still operating within a gray area,” said Susan Dupej, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Guelph’s School of Hospitality, Food & Tourism Management who studies marijuana tourism in Canada.
Although Dupej knows of a few Canadian cannabis consumption businesses, “they’re doing
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