Cannabis N.B. is ready for a new era. Besides loosening its grip on who can sell marijuana — five of nine private stores have opened this summer, a sixth is about to open and the Crown corporation is planning another round of requests for proposals to open ev…

You wouldn’t see a mermaid statue hanging from the wall when you walk into one of Cannabis N.B.’s regular stores.
At McCannabis in Salisbury, though, one of the new and legal independent cannabis st…