Kimberley's Chamber of Commerce is pleased that the Bavarian City is home to the province's first private licensed retail cannabis store.

Kimberley is host to the first private licensed cannabis retail store licence in BC.

BC has received its second “legal” cannabis store and first private retailer- the Tamarack Cannabis Boutique in Kimberley, a quaint, Bavarian-themed (former mining) town in the East Kootenays that's a 10-hour drive from Vancouver.

Tamarack Cannabis Boutique had already been the first medical dispensary in Canada to receive a business license from local government.

Tamara Duggan is no stranger to being first.