Whoopi Goldberg Eyes Canada to Expand Marijuana Business
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise to legalize marijuana has grabbed the attention of many pot entrepreneurs — including Whoopi Goldberg, who’s eyeing Canada as a potential market for her line of cannabis-infused menstrual pain products.
Goldberg’s product line, which includes a THC tincture, a topical body rub, medicated bath salts and cannabis-infused cacao, is available only to medical marijuana patients in California.
But the American comedian and talk-show host said she’d like to change that.
“It’s going to take a minute,” Goldberg said Monday in an interview, noting that making the products available north of the border will require overcoming a number of regulatory hurdles.
“You have to go through lots of different conversations.”
Goldberg founded Whoopi & Maya alongside Maya Elisabeth, a California-based creator of medical cannabis products and the founder of Om Edibles.
In addition to cannabis, many of the products contain herbs and other natural ingredients —...
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