TORONTO HEMP COMPANY (THC) - INTRODUCTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
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Welcome to Toronto Hemp Company (THC) - "Introduction" (and contact information)! Established in 1994 and located in the heart of downtown Toronto, THC is a "hemp shop" or "cannabis / marijuana / hemp culture store" - a retail store and resource centre providing high quality hemp and related products and information. Our BRAND NEW, huge Toronto Hemp Company Cannabis Superstore is now located at 665 Yonge Street, just south of the intersection of Yonge & Bloor. Our phone number is still 416-920-1980. The new THC consists of three floors - Ground Floor Hemp Products (hemp fabric, hemp rope and twine, hemp foods, hemp seed, hemp paper, hemp cosmetics, hemp clothing, etc.), Second Floor Smoking Accessories / Bong Shop (pipes, bongs / waterpipes, vaporizers, rolling papers, blunts, grinders, etc.), and Basement Garden Supply (indoor and outdoor, hydroponic and organic, specializing in medical cannabis growing)! This is truly an incredible space, check it out when you can!
Visit us at:
665 Yonge Street (just south of Bloor Street)
Toronto Ontario Canada M4Y 1Z9
phone (416) 920-1980 fax (416) 920-0764
Email: domZ@Ztorontohemp.com (remove the two Zs)
Our regular hours are:
Sunday to Wednesday 11 to at least 7, Thursday to Saturday 11 to at least 9.
We may have to close for certain holidays,
and we have extended hours when necessary in the summer and Christmas shopping seasons.
What is hemp? - click here to learn more about this amazing plant!
THC is a retail store & resource centre dedicated to an incredibly beneficial and mistreated plant and culture. Provider of high quality hemp and related products and information, we are located right in the heart of downtown T.O. Kind, fair, loyal, honest and respectful service since 1994.
We carry a wide selection of:
hemp products (clothing, accessories, fabric, twine, food, paper products and cosmetics),
herb smoking/vaporizing/processing tools and accessories,
gardening supplies,
incense and herbal products from around the world,
containers and drug-test preparation products,
books, magazines, comics, calendars and videos,
stickers, posters, patches
t-shirts, caps and tons more,
all available in-store or by mail!
We operate with an "only the best..." philosophy; our products are generally of higher quality than those available elsewhere and we'd far prefer to sell something that our customer will really enjoy than something that we make more money on.
At the same time, you'll find our prices to be at least as good as, or better than, those of everyone else in our industry. We will match or beat any available price and will gladly exchange any unused or defective product.
We strive to provide our customers with kind, quality service, and a wealth of (free) information about cannabis, protecting our environment, mind-altering/medicinal substances, the laws, local parties and events and other relevant stuff.
Click here for driving directions and maps from Yahoo.
(A recent article written about us in the National Post also tells much of the story quite nicely.)
THC was founded by a 21-year-old University of Toronto graduate with lifelong experience in his family's retail business. Wanting to 'be his own boss,' while doing something that would have a beneficial impact on our planet, Dom Cramer followed the lead of other 'hemp shop' owners in places like Vancouver (Marc Emery), London (Chris Clay) and Ottawa (Mike Foster), by opening Toronto Hemp Company in October of '94. From the beginning, our philosophy has embraced cooperation rather than competition, and giving back to our cause and our community rather than lining our pockets with profits.
A few years later, we were faced with a great need in Toronto for a medicinal cannabis distribution centre for at least some of the hundreds of thousands of sick Ontarians that our own government admitted were in need of a more legitimate source of medicine. Responding to this need, and following the lead of pioneers in San Francisco (Dennis Peron) and Vancouver (Hilary Black), we worked with long-time friend Warren Hitzig to help him establish (and request authorization from our government and police for the operation of) the marijuana 'buyer's club' now known as the Toronto Compassion Centre. More information about the Centre can be found at www.tccentre.org and in our Information section.
In 2002, we were called upon to help with another desperate situation of need - legally licensed medicinal cannabis users told to grow their own medicine by our government were provided with no legitimate source of seeds or starter plants. Realizing that there were very few businesses whose aim was to preserve and provide 'genetics' for various medicinal and otherwise important plant species, we met this challenge by requesting authorization for, and opening, a 'rare, medicinal and otherwise exotic seed and houseplant shop' called Sacred Seed (www.sacredseed.com).
The Toronto Hemp Company (THC) store has seen an incredible evolution over the years, moving from a tiny second-floor office space to a huge second-floor space of our own in 1995, to an amazing prime ground-floor retail location in mid-2003 (and to a new and even more incredible space in 2006). The past few years have brought a real coming of age, with THC gaining international recognition and appreciation as a world-class destination and resource centre. Through the recent moves, we decided to keep the large second floor location and turn it into a glass art studio, hemp museum, vapor lounge and cannabis community centre called Toronto Art Glass and Vapor Central.
July 18, 2005 was the day we opened our Organic Green Bean Coffee Shop, Kindred Cafe (www.kindredcafe.com). It was an absolutely beautiful coffee bar with three private and rentable rooms on the second floor, and a members-only rooftop patio. We had to close it recently, but hope to reopen some day soon.
Our more recent efforts include opening a new separate location for Toronto Art Glass, expanding Vapor Central to fill its own 2000 square foot space, opening a new downtown Toronto Compassion Centre location, among so many other interesting projects.
We have been working with a dedicated group of compassion club operators and supporters to recently form and develop Canadians for Safe Access ( www.safeaccess.ca ), modeled after and with the help of a very widely respected organization known as Americans for Safe Access. We have had the honour and opportunity to take part in amazing events such as Fill The Hill, press conferences such as that of July 9 2003 on Parliament Hill (with Senator Nolin, Libby Davies, Real Menard etc.) and appear, alongside Jack Layton and the Deputy Chief of Toronto Police for example, on local and national television and radio shows and documentaries - Intelligent Television (i channel), Toronto One, Rogers, CBC TV, CBC Radio, CBC French TV, CTV, Global, CityTV, BBC Radio, AM1010, AM680, among many others. And then there's the print media, too many to list, and we're increasingly being requested (and appreciated) for speaking engagements and other public service, events such as the recent UofT Student Disabilities Conference: Breaking Down The Barriers 2003. We've survived robberies, raids, seizures, and charges in relation to the operation of the TCC, and we've won in three levels of court with a civil case, Hitzig vs. Canada, challenging the unconstitutional and harmfully oppressive bureaucracy of the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (and related sections of our Criminal Code). We are activists, entrepreneurs and, most of all, philanthropists. We take pride in embracing and promoting the philosophy that "corporate" does not necessarily equal "evil," and that individuals and businesses have the ability, and a responsibility, to beneficially impact the world in which we live.
On top of all of the above, there are many other projects that we are working on, including vaporization technology and products (www.dominizer.com), drug policy conferences (www.greentide.ca), a lobbying organization (www.norml.ca), and the Canadian Cannabis Society (www.cannabissociety.org).
Thank you for your interest in our efforts, and hopefully for your support! Please feel free to share your thoughts or questions in our Forum, or via Email.
Outside Front
Hemp Information Wall
First Floor
Hemp Items (First Floor)
Hemp Items (First Floor)
Pipes (Second Floor)
Pipes (Second Floor)
Smoking Accessories (Second Floor)
Garden Supplies (Basement)
