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Alberta won’t limit the number of private cannabis stores once retail sales are legalized next July, according to new details released Thursday by the NDP government.

The province confirmed that it will look to private retailers to sell legal weed from brick-and-mortar storefronts, instead of government-run outlets chosen by several other provinces, such as Ontario and Quebec.

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Online sales in Alberta, however, will be available through a publicly run system, which is meant to ensure residents can tell the difference between legal and illicit retailers on the internet.

Fred Pels, chief executive of a company seeking to open as many as seven stores in Calgary by July, said the details released so far are a “good start” in Alberta’s sprint to roll out an entirely new retail market in time for Canada Day.

“We’re eager to get to work,” said Pels, of B.C-based Green Room, which runs dispensaries in Vancouver and Nelson, B.C., with cannabis information centres in Calgary and Edmonton that it hopes to convert into retail stores.