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Have you heard of “Toronto the Good”?

Well, meet “Sherwood Park the Prim.”

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Strathcona County doesn’t allow anyone to build a casino.

No one is allowed to open an “adult entertainment” business within county borders, either.

So perhaps it’s not shocking that, so far at least, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor, and Cannabis Commission has received just one application to open a recreational marijuana store in Strathcona County.

However, it does make Sherwood Park — with a population of more than 70,000 — an outlier. And it has the potential to make Strathcona County a “supply desert” for legal marijuana.

By way of comparison, St. Albert, which has a population of about 65,000, already has eight applications pending for cannabis stores.

Leduc, with a population of 30,000, has three applications in the works.

Stony Plain? It could be Metro Edmonton’s pot shop hot spot.

With a population of just 17,189 people, Stony Plain currently has six applications up for review by the AGLC — with another three outlets in the works for nearby Spruce Grove.