Canadian-based marijuana retailer Cannabis Xpress will pay a fine of 100,000 Canadian dollars (roughly $71,421) to Ontario regulators for violating the province’s anti-inducement law.
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) initially fined Cannabis Xpress CA$200,000 in April for masking a banned “pay-to-play scheme” involving at least 61 licensed producers (LPs) as a “data services program.”
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According to the AGCO, Cannabis Xpress, which operates 14 stores in Ontario, “repeatedly sought the participation of over a dozen LPs” in illegal inducement schemes over a span of at least 30 months.
The company “refused to stock an LP’s product unless they agreed to enter into prohibited inducement agreements and promoted the sale of cannabis products from producers who entered such inducement deals,” the
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