Online Dispensary in Inuvik, NT

Inuvik exists because its predecessor kept flooding. The community of Aklavik, further out in the Mackenzie Delta, dealt with regular floods and unstable ground that made it a poor place to keep building on, so in 1953 the federal government began constructing an entirely new planned town on firmer ground, initially calling it New Aklavik to reflect the transfer. That name confused mail carriers enough that officials renamed it Inuvik in 1958, a word describing a place of people. The town’s flag still reflects its makeup today, with a teepee, an igloo and a house representing the Dene, Inuit and non-Indigenous residents who each make up roughly a third of the population.

Inuvik reached village status in 1967 and became a town in 1970, the same decade the Dempster Highway finally connected it to the rest of Canada’s road network in 1979, ending its total dependence on planes and winter ice roads. Sitting 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Inuvik gets 24-hour daylight for weeks around the summer solstice and complete darkness for a stretch each winter, conditions the town marks with its annual Sunrise Festival celebrating the return of daylight each January. Petroleum exploration briefly boomed here in the late 1970s and early 1980s before the industry pulled back. Today Inuvik is home to close to 3,100 residents, the largest community in Canada north of the Arctic Circle. Weed Market ships to Inuvik addresses the same way it does anywhere else in the Northwest Territories, fast, tracked and completely discreet.

What to Know About Buying Cannabis in Inuvik, NT

• Inuvik’s own liquor store refused to sell cannabis when it became legal in 2018, since its Inuvialuit-owned parent corporation worried that any connection to cannabis sales could complicate beneficiaries crossing into the United States.
• Inuvik residents initially had to order cannabis by mail through the territorial government rather than buying it in person, unlike most other large NWT communities.
• A private cannabis retailer later opened in Inuvik after the territory began accepting applications from independent operators in communities without a liquor store willing to sell it.
• With Inuvik’s cannabis retail history shaped by a decision unrelated to product availability itself, Weed Market’s Canada-wide shipping gives residents a straightforward alternative regardless of local store politics.