Industry is in trouble, and Toronto is now seeing the consequences play out in real time.

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When Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, Ontario made a promise — to consumers, to communities, and to small business owners who invested their lives and savings into the new sector. That promise was simple: the government would regulate the market, enforce the law, and replace the illegal cannabis trade with a safe, transparent, and accountable system.

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Seven years later, that promise is breaking.

Ontario’s legal cannabis industry is in trouble, and Toronto is now seeing the consequences play out in real time. The recent closure of Roncesvalles’