Torontonians can order secure, authorized hashish and get it delivered straight to their houses.

Beginning in the present day, hashish consumers in Toronto, Canada, can use Uber Eats to order supply of their merchandise. Uber is working with the net hashish vendor Leafly, which has three Toronto-area shops lined as much as launch this system. Instead of Uber drivers, retailer workers might be accountable for the pickup.

Toronto residents aged 19 years or older can now legally buy marijuana on demand from Uber Eats.

According to hashish web site Leafly, that is the primary time marijuana supply has been obtainable on a third-party meals ordering platform like Uber Eats. This collaboration ought to assist fight the black marketplace for marijuana and promote accountable driving.

“Leafly has been empowering the cannabis marketplace in Canada for more than four years, and we support more than 200 cannabis retailers in the GTA. We are thrilled to work with Uber Eats to help licenced retailers bring safe, legal cannabis to people across the city,” stated Leafly CEO Yoko Miyashita in a press release.

In 2018, Canada turned the primary main Western nation to legalise and regulate its sale and leisure use. That ended almost a century of marijuana prohibition. The change was praised by pot lovers and traders in a budding trade that has seen pot shares soar on the Toronto and New York inventory exchanges, however was sharply questioned by some well being professionals and opposition politicians.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself admitted in 2013 to having smoked pot 5 or 6 instances in his life, together with at a cocktail party with buddies after being elected to parliament.

He has additionally stated that his late brother Michel was dealing with marijuana possession fees for a “tiny amount” of the pot earlier than his dying in an avalanche in 1998 and that this influenced his resolution to suggest legalising hashish.