Buying weed has never been easier for those living in Toronto, Canada. Starting today, Uber Eats will be delivering marijuana right to your house, thanks to the company’s partnership with online marijuana retailer Leafly, which connects the customer with dozens of local dispensaries in Toronto.
Buying weed is no different than buying food from the app, but it’s still a groundbreaking move by Uber Eats considering it’s the first time marijuana delivery has been made available on a food ordering platform. The partnership hopes to tackle the underground marijuana business amid the growing rise of laced weed being sold to people, which has resulted in countless overdoses in the U.S. in recent years.
People can now order cannabis via Uber Eats in Canada. You must be 19 years or older. Igbo at your doorstep. 😅
— Bolarinwa Olajide (@iambolar) October 17, 2022
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On top of that, Uber Eats is also hoping to eliminate the act of people having to drive to a dispensary store and potentially driving home while high. “Leafly has been empowering the cannabis marketplace in Canada for more than four years and we support more than 200 cannabis retailers in the GTA,” Leafly CEO Yoko Miyashita said in a press release.
“We are thrilled to work with Uber Eats to help licensed retailers bring safe, legal cannabis to people across the city.”
In order to purchase weed directly from the app, users are instructed to click on the “Cannabis” section, which then brings up a list of nearby retailers. Customers are then asked to verify their age before they are presented with a menu of options — in other words, it’s more or less the same as how people would submit their food order.
Interestingly enough, when the weed delivery is made, customers are then asked to verify their age once more before the item is handed over to them and the order is marked as complete.
Uber Eats now delivering legal cannabis in Canada. That’s the sort of society I’d like to live in. How does one obtain Canadian citizenship?
— Jimmy Jungas (@JimmyJungas) October 17, 2022
Uber Eats general manager Lola Kassim followed up in a statement of her own, saying, “We are partnering with industry leaders like Leafly to help retailers offer safe, convenient options for people in Toronto to purchase legal cannabis for delivery to their homes, which will help combat the illegal market and help reduce impaired driving.”
It’s unclear when or whether Uber Eats will plan to expand their weed delivery service over to the U.S. in the near future, but it’s fair to assume that if things should fare well in Toronto, it could probably do just as well over in the United States.