Legalizing cannabis might one day be a small business bonanza, but at the moment for Airdrie cannabis retailer Grant Guenther, legal weed might be the biggest financial bust of them all. Guenther took out a lease to open Strain Lane, a cannabis retailer in Airdrie. The AGLC suspended the granting of new licenses a couple of months ago due to a cannabis shortage. "My wife and I have invested everything we have into this business," Guenther said Monday in an interview on the Calgary Eyeopener. When host David Gray described the cannabis retail industry as a contest pitting big, well-financed corporate fishes against small, mom-and-pop sized fishes, Guenther agreed.

Source: CBC News March 11, 2019 23:15 UTC