Canada’s legal cannabis market gets off to a slow start

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An expected bonanza has turned into a bit of a bust

labelled Pink Kush, Moon and Trail Blazer are arranged invitingly in the glass-doored cooler at Superette, a cannabis store in the trendy Westboro area of Ottawa. But they are just models for marketing purposes. A sales clerk, wearing a white Superette toque and matching-shirt, explains that cannabis-infused drinks and edibles, like chocolates, biscuits and sweets, will probably not go on sale until early January, even though the government finished its review process by December 16th.

That is partly because finding one of Canada’s 407 legal pot shops is not easy. As of July this year Ontario had 24 stores for its 14m residents—two fewer than Newfoundland & Labrador, with a population of 530,000. In nine of the ten provinces distribution from growers to retailers is a provincial monopoly. The distributor’s extra paperwork is what slowed Superette down.

 

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😡😡😡 Very Dangerous Move for Canada

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Because smuggled Vietnamese farm slaves are extremly cheap

Why does Canada's state-run marijuana not compete with the private sector?

Boost tourism?

When weed gets too cheap, potheads buy a lot of it, and then don't need to buy any more for a long time. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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