The future is now for adult cannabis consumers in Ontario, Canada with a new level of convenience. Uber Eats customers there can find a new cannabis category on the app to order for pick-up, beginning Monday. Orders will be fulfilled within an hour of order placement, which is initially only available to Ontario residents.
Uber Technologies Inc. will add Canadian cannabis retailer Tokyo Smoke to its marketplace on November 29—allowing customers to browse, then place orders from the Uber Eats app and finally pick it up at their nearest Tokyo Smoke store, with dozens of locations in the province. You can browse through an assortment of cannabis products.
Deliveries of weed, however, will not be allowed. Orders are for pick-up only. Uber Eats‘ head of communications for delivery, Meghan Casserly, confirmed that there would be no delivery to The Verge.
Reuters first reported the bold policy change, as it gains attention in the marketplace. “We will continue to watch regulations and opportunities closely market by market. And as local and federal laws evolve, we will explore opportunities with merchants who operate in other regions,” the Uber spokesperson told Reuters.
When asked about expanding the service into other Canadian provinces, or the U.S., the spokesperson said there is “nothing more to share at this time.”
The collaboration between Tokyo Smoke and Uber will help Canadian adults purchase legal cannabis safely, with a goal to abate the thriving underground black market which still accounts for over 40 percent of all non-medical cannabis sales nationally, the Uber spokesperson added.
You can already order liquor through the Uber Eats app, and Uber executives zeroed in on the burgeoning cannabis industry long ago.