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's Hemp BC), London (Chris Clay's Hemp Nation) and Ottawa (Mike Foster's Crosstown Traffic), by opening Toronto Hemp Company in October of '94.