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The news Friday initially put Kate Gilbert on a natural high.

Citing an improved cannabis supply climate, Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis said it will relax its two-month-long freeze on pot shop licences by adding 10 permits to the previous 65.

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Four of them are in Calgary, two in the city’s northeast and one each in the southeast and southwest.

Gilbert thought her family-run Micro Gold store in Okotoks, which was on the verge of being sanctioned to open as a cannabis provider last November, might now finally be in the bud business.

But it wasn’t to be.

“It’s just so disappointing … I was just telling a (customer) we could be one of the 10 but I guess not,” she said.

“We’re going to stick it out, we know eventually things will level out.”

The family opened the store last month, selling marijuana paraphernalia to bide its time until given the green light to sell bud.

“The day we passed our final inspection and got a verbal confirmation was the same day licences were put on hold,” Gilbert said, adding 15 jobs at the store were frozen as well.