craft cannabis, what you need to know.

Everything You Need to Know about Craft Cannabis

The new “Craft Cannabis'' designation was announced by the government-owned Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) over the past two years. As the trusted retailer of cannabis products in Ontario, Takeoff Cannabis has researched this criteria to explain and define everything you need to know about “craft” marijuana. 

The idea behind this product classification is to provide some smaller Canadian cannabis producers a promotional boost amid a huge amount of competition in the crucial Ontario market, allowing them to attract business from demanding customers with high expectations.

Some of the products included in the classification can be found here:

https://www.takeoffcannabis.com/thorold?

https://www.takeoffcannabis.com/toronto?

The Ontario Cannabis Store's new "Craft Cannabis" badge for designated craft products. (Image courtesy of Ontario Cannabis Store)

What is Craft Cannabis? 

Craft cannabis grows on a smaller scale compared to competitors. With smaller yields offers more experimentation with rarer, new, or specialty strains that require a high level of attention and care. Understand that all cannabis can be grown craft, however it’s dependent on the licensed producers, cultivation team and strain specifically grown that caters to a more hands on approach.  

How does the Ontario Cannabis Store classify Craft Cannabis?

To be classified as Craft Cannabis by the Ontario Cannabis Store, Licensed Producers must:

-        Grow in a facility that produces no more than 10,000 kilograms (22,046 pounds) of dried cannabis.

-        Hand-trimmed

-        Hand-dried

-       Hand-packaged

Why buy craft cannabis? 

Craft offers cannabis to consumers who are willing and wanting to explore the dedication and time spent from the hands of the grower. If bud quality is of ultimate importance when purchasing flower, consider craft; as the beauty truly comes from---being hand trimmed which allows intact, beautiful trichomes that remain. When hang dried and slow cured, offers ultimate and ample terpenes preservation for the most flavorful and euphoric highs. Then hand packaged, it often ensures when you buy will be precise gram count, sizeable and well-balanced bud density.  

Brands to consider and that we carry:

-        Carmel, Oro-Medonte, ON

-        Broken Coast

-        Canna Farms

-        Royal City Cannabis Co., Guelph, ON

-        BlkMkt

-        Tenzo

-        Simply Bare

-        Organnicraft

-        Qwest

Please note that often times prices for craft reflect the dedication and patience spent crafting them. More times than none, you're paying for the labour intensive production time and environmentally conscious methods and packaging. Said factors hold craft growers accountable to ensure standards expected in their craft products translates the same to us consumers.

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