Uber Eats Delivers Weed In A Third Canadian Province, General Manager Says This Will ‘Improve Road Safety’
Starting this week, residents of Alberta, Canada can have their cannabis products delivered to their homes by Uber Eats, a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER). To make this happen, Uber once again partnered with marijuana website Leafly (NASDAQ:LFLY).
“It’s awesome news actually, it seems like it has gone a far long way now,” one potential recipient told City News.
Alberta Gaming Liquor and Cannabis explained that under the law, store employees must deliver marijuana products, not just regular Uber drivers and customers must prove with proper ID that they are of legal age upon delivery.
“The main thing is making sure that the local cannabis retailer has provincially certified staff who can deliver cannabis safely to someone’s house. It’s not delivery people that would deliver your food from a restaurant but this will be provincially certified staff,” …