Why we don't stock everything

A licensed retailer in Ontario can order from thousands of listings. Carrying all of them would be easy and, we think, a disservice. A wall of options is not a selection — it is an unsorted catalogue with a price tag on it.

Before a product reaches our shelves it goes through the same three questions. Can the producer show us complete lab data, including a full terpene breakdown and not just cannabinoids? Is the harvest date recent enough that the product will still be good when a customer opens it? And is the price honest relative to what is actually in the package?

A no on any of those is a no from us. We have turned down well-known brands over stale harvest dates and we have made room for tiny farms nobody in the city had heard of because the flower was excellent and the paperwork was complete.

The result is a smaller list than most shops carry, organised so that our guides can speak to every single item on it. If we put something in your hand, someone here has looked at the data and can tell you why.