Uber Eats to process cannabis deliveries in Toronto through new Leafly partnership

[Zeedox]

Uber Eats to process cannabis deliveries in Toronto through new Leafly partnership

Cannabis deliveries will be available on Uber Eats in Toronto soon.

www.cp24.com

The food delivery platform owned by U.S. tech giant Uber Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with online marijuana marketplace Leafly on Sunday that will see it process pot orders for retailers Hidden Leaf Cannabis, Minerva Cannabis and Shivaa’s Rose.

The partnership will mark the first time Uber has facilitated the delivery of marijuana anywhere in the world.

Consumers, who must be age 19 or older, will place orders on the Uber Eats app, which stores can receive and respond to through Leafly’s software. The retailers then send staff certified under Ontario's cannabis retail education program, CannSell, to drop off purchases to shoppers, whose age and sobriety are checked on delivery.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Great idea.

Someone far wiser than I once said, "If drinking and driving is illegal, then why do bars have parking lots?"

This is a great example of riding society of risks.

You ran out of weed? No problem! Just phone in a delivery. No risk required.

 

[Zeedox]

When I was up in Ontario earlier this year there was a store not 50 ft from the condo entrance.

 

[Gomez Adams]

When I was up in Ontario earlier this year there was a store not 50 ft from the condo entrance.

That takes the phrase "convenience store" out a whole new door.

 

[Zeedox]

The second closest shop was about a 150ft walk with a street crossing. It truly was a convenience.