[URBAN NOTE] "‘Prince of Pot' Marc Emery says landlord trying to evict him"

[rfmcdonald]

The Toronto Star's Salmaan Farooqui reports on Marc Emery's problems with his Church Street landlord. I suspect this is all a consequence of the generally poor decision made by so many pot shop owners to set up shop before selling marijuana actually became legal.

Marc Emery, the marijuana dispensary owner dubbed “the Prince of Pot,” says his landlord is trying to evict him from his new Church St. store.

On Friday morning Emery was live-streaming and posting videos of police and his landlord’s representative gathering outside of his Toronto business, Cannabis Culture.

“I think he (the landlord) is definitely responsible for calling the cops,” said Emery on a video posted on his Facebook page, taken inside the store as police gathered outside.

“He’s been trying to get me out from . . . the first day.”

Emery claims he has a five-year lease agreement for a dispensary on the premises with the property managing company Sud Group and “I have not violated or breached our agreement in any way.”