One disgruntled businessman in Clarenville is upset his application to be a licensed cannabis retailer was denied — and says the province is handing a lucrative industry to mainland corporations. This went, all this billion-dollar industry is going to go outside of Newfoundland now," says Newfoundland Puffin Co. owner Paul Newman. We get a lot of customers coming in here that want to buy cannabis from a store like this, they don't want to go to a gas station. This Esso gas station was one of two approved licensed cannabis retailers in Clarenville. (Eddy Kennedy/CBC)An Esso gas station owned by a Nova Scotia-based company and a lounge owned by a long-standing Clarenville businessman were approved to sell non-medicinal cannabis in the area.

Source: CBC News May 24, 2018 21:22 UTC