CBC News – Dec 06, 2018 Changes to Ontario’s smoking laws have forced a medical cannabis lounge in downtown Windsor to shut down. Higher Limits announced Thursday it will be closing for good by the end of the year. “[We] have been notified and warned by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit that both employees and customers are […]
CBC Windsor – Jason Viau – July 2, 2018 New provincial rules have outlawed cannabis lounges designed for medical users as of July 1, but one owner in Windsor, Ont. refuses to shut down. Higher Limits Cannabis Lounge, which calls itself the largest in Canada, has been open in the downtown area for two-and-a-half years and […]
CBC Windsor – April 23 2018 As people across Canada prepare for recreational cannabis to become legal later this year the regional tourism agency for Windsor-Essex says it has no strategy until operational guidelines are set. Recreational marijuana could be legalized sometime this summer as the Cannabis Act works its way through Parliament, while Windsor has […]
CBC Windsor – Feb 13 2017 Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens stands by comments he made about the “riff raff” on the streets of Denver during a recent visit, saying pot legalization in Canada could have similarly damaging results for his border city. His description of the people he saw, which was published in a Windsor Star […]
[CBC Windsor] Windsor proponents for the legalization of marijuana support the latest federal recommendations that outline how pot should be produced, sold and taxed in Canada. Those recommendations, released Tuesday by a federal task force, say the provinces should regulate sales to prevent the illegal sale of marijuana. Pot task force recommends legal cannabis sales […]
[CBC Windsor] The federal government’s decision to allow medical marijuana patients to grow a limited amount of cannabis at home is music to the ears of Windsor’s first vaping lounge. “I think it’s very good thing what they’ve done,” said Jon Liedtke, Co-owner of Higher Limits in Windsor. “Expanding access to medical marijuana, ensuring that there is affordable, consistent supply […]
[High Times: Mike Adams] While it is perfectly acceptable to smoke weed in Canada’s newly opened medicinal cannabis lounge in downtown Windsor, patrons are being required to flick their ashes on the floor because health officials claim it is a violation of a local tobacco ordinance for the establishment to have ashtrays on the tables. When Higher […]
[Windsor Star] High times are literally here for downtown Windsor’s first cannabis vapour lounge. Higher Limits, the new business at 251 Ouellette Ave., has caught the attention of that illustrious periodical of all things pot-related, High Times magazine. In an online article, the magazine (which was founded in 1974) focuses on the latest controversy at […]
[CBC Windsor] Ramsin Ishaq can smoke his medically prescribed marijuana all day long at a new medical marijuana smoking and vaping lounge in downtown Windsor, Ont., but health officials say he can’t flick the ash from his joint in an ashtray. Instead, he has to ash his joint on the counter top or table. That’s […]
[CBC Windsor] Windsor’s first medical marijuana vaping lounge barely had time to open its doors and city officials are talking about finding ways to regulate this type of business. Higher Limits is already buzzing with customers after opening about a week ago, according to co-owner Jon Liedtke, who says he offers a safe place for medicinal marijuana users […]