Online Dispensary in Stratford, ON

Stratford was already named after Shakespeare’s hometown for a century before anyone thought to build a theatre festival around it. The community took its name in 1832, when administrator Thomas Mercer Jones drew inspiration from Stratford-upon-Avon while the settlement was still just a young rail town. That connection sat dormant until the early 1930s, when local student Tom Patterson first floated the idea of a Shakespeare festival to friends, an idea that went nowhere until he revived it decades later as Stratford’s railway industry began collapsing and the town needed a new identity.

Patterson’s persistence paid off. The Stratford Shakespearean Festival opened on July 13, 1953, under a giant canvas tent with Alec Guinness starring in Richard III, and it’s since grown into one of the most respected classical theatre companies in North America, employing about 1,000 people each season and pumping roughly $135 million a year into the local economy. The Avon River’s famous swans trace back to a pair Queen Elizabeth II gifted Canada in 1976, still paraded to the water every April after wintering indoors. Thomas Edison also passed through as a teenage telegraph operator on the town’s rail line in 1864, decades before any of this. Today Stratford is home to over 33,000 residents. Weed Market ships to Stratford addresses the same way it does anywhere else in Ontario, fast, tracked and completely discreet.

What to Know About Buying Cannabis in Stratford, ON

• Stratford has around 8 licensed cannabis dispensaries, a fairly dense retail scene for a city of its size.
• Ontario didn’t allow legal cannabis retail stores until April 2019, meaning Stratford residents relied entirely on the province’s online store for the first several months after legalization.
• With the Stratford Festival drawing visitors from across North America each season, the city’s cannabis retailers see noticeably different demand between festival season and the quieter winter months.
• With cannabis pricing and inventory varying across Stratford’s several dispensaries, ordering through Weed Market means one consistent catalogue instead of comparing storefronts downtown.