In Canada, Uber Eats launches home delivery of cannabis

Cannabis users will be able to order on an app and have it delivered directly to their homes.

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Uber Eats has partnered with distributor Tokyo Smoke to enable consumers to purchase cannabis online in Ontario, Canada.

This is the very first time that a delivery service has entered this market.

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Uber has chosen to team up with cannabis retail leader Tokyo Smoke. Users will be able to order via an application and be delivered to their homes. The American giant, which already delivers alcohol through its subsidiary Uber Eats, had been looking for a while to tackle this new market that emerged in 2018 after

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After an initial boom, sales today stagnate in Canada, while the bulk of the market is still controlled by organized crime.

The change could come across the border with the United States, where the bulk of this commodity is shipped.

An elected Republican from South Carolina, Nancy Mace, wants to regulate this flow and has just tabled a bill to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level in the United States. 

Experts estimate the Canadian legal cannabis market at nearly $ 24 billion, of which $ 20 billion is paid by American consumers.

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