If you think cannabis legalization has brought out the worst in pun-loving headline writers, wait’ll you see the store name ideas.
When recreational cannabis becomes legal on Oct. 17, nowhere will the streets bristle with change more than in Alberta. The free-enterprise and oil-loving province has been by far the most active in approving marijuana retail. It’s eschewed government-run stores and has placed no cap on the number of private outlets, expecting 250 in the first year and twice as many later. In the first six months, cannabis chains and entrepreneurs applied to the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission for more than 750 store licences.
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The provincial regulator’s application list reveals an impressive array of proposed store names. And the government has placed few restrictions on the names themselves. They can’t promote intoxication (no names with High, Chronic or Stoned), cannot suggest any pharmaceutical or medical links (no Health, Clinic, Dispensary, or Med), and can’t have “Alberta” in the name. Other than that, businesses are largely free to name as they please.
And in Alberta, they have. There’s originality in the list, but certain themes clearly emerge:
Love the leaf |
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Aroma Leaf |
Global Leaf |
Herbal Releaf Centre |
Leaf Wise |
Lucky Leaf |
Modernleaf |
New Leaf |
Peaceleaf |
Re-Leaf |
Rolling Leafs |
Spiritleaf |
Sweet Leaf |
The Leaf |
The Wanted Leaf |
Urban Leaf |
Urbn Leaf |
Westleaf |
1Leaf |
No bad names, only bud names |
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Best Buds Outlets |
Bud Bar |
Bud Boys |
Bud Busters |
Bud Runners Cannabis |
BudaBoom |
Budz R Us |
Budzz & Roses |
Fuzzy Budz |
Hey Bud |
Let’s Be Buds |
Queen of Bud |
Small Town Buds |
The Bud King |
Yes, we cannabis |
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Canna Bizz |
Canna Bliss |
Canna Cabana |
Cannabis Cowboy |
Cannamart |
Made in Cannabis |
Rocky Mountain Cannabar |
Can Can Club |
Stoner’s lucky number |
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420 Premium Market |
Blaze 420 Today |
Cloud-420 |
It’s 4:20 Somewhere |
Purple City 420 |
Twenty-six |
Waldo’s 420 Store |
420 Escape |
Argh, the puns |
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Crowsnest’s Classy Joint |
Gramsterdam |
Haute Box |
Le Joint |
Merry Guanas |
Mind-Full |
Potporium |
Pottersville |
Roll Call Cannabis |
Starbuds |
Strainbows |
The Potterie |
Up N Smoke |
My dealer’s gone legit |
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Adam’s Herbs |
Bob’s Buds |
Grampa’s Finest |
Jai’s Recreational Stuff |
Odies Corner |
Robbie J’s |
Ross’ Gold |
Smiley’s Cannabis |
Smokey’s Cannabis |
Uncle Sam’s Cannabis |
It is easy being green |
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Alternative Greens |
Green Cave |
Green Che |
Green Leaf |
Green Mountain Cannabis |
Green Oasis |
Green Panda Cannabis |
Green Shop |
Green Solutions |
Green Space |
Green Town |
Green Zone |
Greendoor Cannabis |
Greener Society Cannabis |
Greenway |
Prestige Green |
Star Greens |
The Green Box |
The Green Eden |
The GreenEasy |
The Greenhouse Cannabis Co. |
Misspelling is kool |
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Goodiez |
Koffeeshop |
Kush Krush |
Quadz Cannabis |
The Kannabist |
Tumbleweedz |
Uplyft |
WEEDZ |
Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles |
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Mary Jane on Penny Lane |
Yellow Submarine |
Eastern religion, culture and geography |
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Buddha Farm |
Namaste |
Nirvana |
Tokyo Smoke |
It sounded cool when I was high |
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Diesel Punk Pot Co. |
Frosted Acres |
Hemp Town Rock |
Pineapple Shop |
Poshpot Cannabis Boutique |
Stigma |
THC2GO |
The Retail Cannabis Store |
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