Pot shop employee beaten in robbery over the weekend

Police say they're looking for three suspects who robbed aToronto marijuana dispensary and beat one of its employees.

Investigators say masked men, one armed with a handgun, entered The Green Leaf dispensary on Danforth Avenuenear Woodbine Avenueon Saturday evening and ordered the three store employees to the ground.

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They say a shot was fired during the robbery, and one of the employees was pistol-whipped and required hospital treatment.

Police say the three robbers left with an undisclosed quantity of marijuana and cash.

They are described as black men two about six feet tall and the other five-foot-eight to five-foot-10 who were wearing black ski masks and black clothing.