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Cannabis consumers will have a new, yet familiar option in the Osborne Village come Thursday.

Delta9 will open its second retail store, a roughly 3,000 sq. ft. space on River Avenue, just a few steps away from Osborne Street, joining Tweed and Tokyo Smoke as licensed retailers in the area.

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“We’ve learned a lot in a very short time,” Delta9 CEO John Arbuthnot said on Wednesday. “I think the market conditions have improved from a supply perspective.

“We’ve done our homework in the lead into legalization and now we’re ready to grow.”

Delta9 Lifestyles, the medicinal arm of the company, will operate out of the same space, with the new retail store running out of the main level of the building. And Arbuthnot isn’t worried about entering a community that already has a couple of established stores.

“A few major differentiators for our store (and) first is the location,” Arbuthnot said. “Anyone who knows the Village here knows the bulk of the shopping goes on at the Safeway, the Shoppers Drug Mart, the liquor store, and we’re right in that core area.”