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Parking shouldn’t be a problem for customers eager to check Windsor’s first pot shop set to open in the downtown on Saturday morning.

Most of the neighbouring businesses of J. Supply Co. at 545 Ouellette Ave. have been forced to shut down as part of the war against the spread of the novel coronavirus. But the province added cannabis retail stores to its list of “essential” workplaces that are permitted to remain open during the COVID-19 crisis.

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A year and a half after Ottawa first legalized recreational marijuana for adult use, Windsorites finally get their first look at a bricks-and-mortar shop specializing in a drug that had been criminalized for generations. Despite the crowded scenes outside previous similar business openings across Ontario, the Windsor proprietors promise there should be nothing to worry about when their doors open at 10 a.m.

“We have specific COVID-19 protocols in place to protect the community and our staff,” J. Supply’s chief design officer David Craig said in a news release Friday night.