There is more to weed than rolling a joint and smoking it.

The various potions, potencies and procedures involved in preparing cannabis-infused wares and edibles might please any chemist, while the business aspect of it might make it seem like Christmas every day to many a manufacturer. This was demonstrated on a frosty Sunday evening as over 30 vendors set up stalls for a Green Market, “Nuit Verte,” at a “secret location” to sell weed-infused products to more than 400 eager cannabis-pursuits.

The Green Market was billed as craft cannabis night market (strictly for adults) in celebration of legalization.

In an appropriately green-painted cavernous hall, people milled around surrounded by every imaginable product — bath salts; creams; salves; oils; Jolly Ranchers; cotton candy; cookies, marshmallows and pretzels, all THC-laden — waiting to be dipped into weed-infused chocolate fondue, peanut butter cups, mac and cheese, cookies and more.

Market co-founder Lisa Campbell said they’ve opened for several evenings this year since Mother’s Day. It was started to create a space for local vendors of craft edibles to sell their products, she said, because dispensaries refused to sell edibles after the Project Claudia raids in May.

“You have an industry that’s suffering in Toronto so we come together as a community to support each other and keep it together,” she said.

In May, Toronto police raided dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries and refused to say whether the charges involved city bylaw infractions or Criminal Code offences.

Although the market is held at a secret location every time, police were outside their market the last time it was held, Campbell said, and organizers were afraid of a police crackdown this time around. In the end no police came, but many others did; while Sunday’s official start time was 6 p.m., an hour before that cars carrying eager marijuana users were skidding into parking spots snaking around the building.

When the venue hit capacity, people queued up and waited for others to leave so they could tour the market.

Inside, vendors readied their tables. One of them, Samantha Smith of the High 5, said edibles are the best way to get medicine for a lot of people. She said the High 5 holds a pop-up shop once or twice a month in different locations.

The strongest product High 5 had Sunday was a pack of three candies adding up to 250 mg of THC, the main constituent of cannabis.

Guy Kramer, one of the founders of the Green Chef, Toronto, was spinning weed-infused pink cotton candy, and telling his story of medical cannabis. Kramer said his father suffers from Stage 4 lung cancer and found that medicinal pot edibles alleviated his pain. By closing down the dispensaries the government is sentencing a lot of people to death, Kramer said.

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Christie, a 55-year-old user, came to the market to find candy or toffee. She said she suffered from sleepwalking and insomnia, and had found out earlier this year that weed-infused candy helps her sleep better.

Another user who identified himself as computer consultant, Bob, said he suffers from fibromyalgia, neuropathy and degenerative disc disease, and came to the market to find edible weed. He said opioids are a lot more addictive and have more side effects than cannabis.