With the 2025 World Series bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays to Rogers Centre, baseball fans on both sides of the border are discovering that Toronto isn’t just a dream stage for October baseball—it’s also one of the most mature legal cannabis markets in the world. But “legal” doesn’t mean “anything goes,” and visitors who mix ballpark fever with dispensary curiosity need to understand Canada’s rules before they light up or stock up.
Canada legalized recreational cannabis nationwide in 2018 under the federal Cannabis Act. Adults can legally possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis or the equivalent in public, with specific conversion rules for edibles, beverages, concentrates, and seeds. Provinces handle the details, and in Ontario—home to Toronto and the Blue Jays—the minimum age to buy, use, and possess cannabis is 19, matching alcohol and tobacco rules.
For both Canadians and visiting Americans in town for the World Series, the safest way to buy cannabis is through licensed outlets. In Ontario, consumers can purchase up to 30 grams at one time from government-regulated retailers or the official online store, with products tracked from seed to sale to meet federal standards for potency, packaging, and lab testing.
Where fans can use cannabis is a different story. Ontario’s Smoke-Free Ontario Act treats smoking and vaping cannabis much like tobacco, banning it in enclosed public places, workplaces, restaurant and bar patios, publicly owned sports areas, playgrounds, and many other shared spaces. Rogers Centre itself is entirely smoke-free: stadium policy explicitly prohibits smoking or vaping cannabis anywhere in the building and offers no in-and-out privileges, meaning fans can’t step outside for a quick session and return to their seats. Edibles are less visible, and small amounts are generally treated like any other legal personal item, as long as they stay within possession limits and pass routine bag checks.
The biggest trap for American visitors is the border. It is flat-out illegal to bring cannabis into or out of Canada, even if it’s legal in your home state or at your final destination. That applies to flower, vapes, edibles, and CBD products alike. Canadians and Americans can face arrest, prosecution, fines, and long-term travel consequences for failing to declare cannabis at customs or attempting to cross with it. The rule of thumb is simple: enjoy cannabis in Canada, leave it in Canada.
Within the country, adults can generally travel domestically with up to 30 grams of cannabis in their luggage, provided they remain within Canadian borders and comply with provincial age and possession laws. Drug-impaired driving is a serious criminal offense; federal and provincial authorities use roadside tests, saliva screening, and blood analysis to enforce impaired-driving rules, including THC. Anyone consuming before or after the game should plan a sober ride, just as they would with alcohol.
Interestingly, Major League Baseball itself has relaxed its approach to cannabis in recent years, removing marijuana from its list of “drugs of abuse” and treating it more like alcohol while expanding testing for opioids and other hard drugs. That doesn’t change stadium rules or Canadian law, but it does mirror the broader normalization that allows a fully legal market to coexist with the sport’s biggest stage.
For Canadians and Americans flocking to Toronto’s waterfront for those crisp October showdowns between the Dodgers and Blue Jays, the formula for a stress-free trip is straightforward: buy only from licensed retailers, stay within the 30-gram public limit, respect smoke-free rules at Rogers Centre and around the city, and never, ever take your stash across the border.
