Canada Post to deliver,

To buy weed online in Alberta next week, you’ll need to set up an account and submit to an age-verification process that includes uploading a driver’s licence or a verification check with credit rating agency Equifax.

In Ontario, no proof will be required.

The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) will verify the age of customers by forcing people to say that they’re 19 years old three different times, but nobody will need to give actual evidence of their age until a canada post mailman shows up at your door and asks you to sign for the package.

If the recipient looks as though they’re younger than 25 years old, Canada Post will ask to see proof that they’re over 19.

With legal sales of recreational cannabis set to start on Oct. 17, in many provinces these sorts of questions remain unanswered, with provincial governments providing sparse detail about the actual logistics of online sales.

In Ontario, at a briefing for media on Thursday, the OCS gave a preview of what their website will look like starting Oct. 17, when recreational cannabis is legalized in Canada.

In Ontario, customers will only be able to legally purchase cannabis through the online store, until private retailers are licensed and established.

When users log on to the site starting Oct. 17, they will first have to enter their birthday on a drab blackand-white page to confirm that they’re 19 years old. They’ll then be taken to a second page to check a box to confirm that they’re 19.

Customers will have to check a third age verification box when they checkout with their product, but they won’t have to provide any proof.

Canada Post will deliver the product, and will check for ID. No packages will be left on doorsteps, or with apartment building concierges, but somebody else in the residence can sign on behalf of the customer. Canada Post is supposed to check ID for anybody who looks under 25.

At first, only VISA and Mastercard will be accepted as payment methods, and the OCS won’t say what will appear on the credit card statement, except to say that it won’t include the word “cannabis.”

Shipping will be a flat fee of $5 and the OCS said that they anticipate delivery will take 1-3 days.

In press materials, the OCS said that the site will limit users to purchasing 30 grams of cannabis or equivalent per transaction — in line with federal law on how much a person can possess in public.

The site demonstration clearly reflected a work-inprogress. Officials showed a product called “Easy Cheesy” selling for $7.95 per gram, but the OCS said that’s only a placeholder price, and actual prices are not available yet.

The e-commerce functions of the OCS site are handled by Ottawa-based Shopify, which is also running online sales for British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In addition to dried marijuana flowers, the site will sell oils and pre-rolled joints, plus accessories like bongs, pipes, grinders, and other gear for smoking.

Initially, the OCS is anticipating having about 70 strains of cannabis available for sale, but they said they hope to get that up to 150 variants eventually.