CBC Windsor – CBC Radio Canada ICI – December 7 2018 Le salon Higher Limits du centre-ville de Windsor a annoncé jeudi qu’il fermerait ses portes définitivement d’ici la fin de l’année en raison de la nouvelle réglementation provinciale qui favorise un Ontario sans fumée. Higher Limits qui a ouvert il y a trois ans se […]
CTV Windsor – Dec 7 2018 A downtown marijuana lounge has announced it is closing. Higher Limits will shut its doors at the end of 2018. Owner Jon Liedtke made the announcement through news release Thursday night. “Higher Limits is proud to have provided a safe place for medical cannabis patients to consume their medication […]
Blackburn News – Mark Brown – December 6, 2018 It is now legal to light up in Windsor’s American neighbour, but cannabis advocates are not expecting much of a change. Recreational marijuana became legal in Michigan as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, after voters last month approved a statewide ballot measure to make the Wolverine State […]
Blackburn News – Kirk Dickinson – December 6, 2018 Citing government regulations, a medical cannabis lounge in Windsor’s downtown core has announced that it will be closing. Higher Limits owner Jon Liedtke issued a statement Thursday evening and said the business will cease operation at the end of this year. Liedtke said while the owners of Higher […]
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 […]
AM800 – RUSTY THOMSON – September 27 2018 Ontario residents will be able to smoke recreational cannabis wherever the smoking of tobacco is permitted. The Ontario government made the announcement Wednesday, loosening rules established by the previous Liberal regime. Under previous consumption rules, those over 19 would have only been able to smoke cannabis in a […]
Blackburn News – Adelle Loiselle – July 4 2018 The owner of a Windsor cannabis lounge is relieved the province is putting rules that would have made his business illegal on hold. Changes to the Ontario Smoke-Free Act would have made it illegal for medicinal cannabis users to light up in public spaces, including workplaces. […]
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 […]
[Merry Jane – Remy L. Roy] But could a lack of order mean the dream goes up in smoke? Any fears for the future of Canadian cannabis should’ve been arrested on 4/20 when Health Minister Jane Philpott told the UN special session on drugs that the country would introduce legislation for legalization next spring. But even with […]
[BizX – Dave Hall] More than 100 small businesses across Ontario, including two here in Windsor, face an uncertain future if amendments to the Smoke Free Ontario Act and the E-Cigarettes Act come into effect this summer. The amendments would prohibit the smoking of legally-prescribed marijuana or inhaling the vapours from ground-up marijuana, from a […]