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Waterloo region's first cannabis retail store opens Wednesday

Tokyo Smoke, the region's first cannabis retail store, opens Wednesday in a plaza at the corner of Pinebush Road and Hespeler Road in Cambridge.

Tokyo Smoke set up in plaza at corner of Pinebush Road, Hespeler Road in Cambridge

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Customer Leo Cortes checks out pot in a smell pod at Central Cannabis in London, Ont., in December. Customers will be able to buy cannabis from a retail store for the first time in Waterloo region when Tokyo Smoke opens in Cambridge on Wednesday. (Kate Dubinski/CBC)

Waterloo region's first cannabis retail store opens Wednesday in Cambridge.

It comes nearly a year after the first 25 stores opened in Ontario on April 1, 2019 and 16 months after cannabis became legal in Canada.

The Tokyo Smoke location was scheduled to open to the public at 9 a.m.

There are other plans for cannabis stores in Waterloo region. Kitchener cannabis cultivation company James E. Wagner Cultivation has announced it will also sell its product at a "farm-gate" retail store attached to its production facility.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) also has applications in for Meta Cannabis, which would go on Fairway Road in Kitchener, as well as Bud and Sally Cannabis, which would go on King Street S. in Waterloo.

The application status for both stores is listed as "in progress."

As well, signs have gone up in the window of the former Fritsch Fragrances shop in downtown Kitchener for The Cannabist Shop. This business does not appear on the AGCO's website.

Window signage indicates where a cannabis store is set to go in downtown Kitchener. No date for opening is available. (Kate Bueckert/CBC)
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