Canadian pot is getting cheaper — but black market still offers best deals

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Gram of cannabis on legal market costs almost twice as much

Canadian pot smokers are finally getting some price relief almost a year after the country legalized recreational use. But it’s still a lot cheaper to get the drug from illegal dealers.

A gram of cannabis purchased from government-sanctioned sellers cost $10.23 in the third quarter, down 3.9 per cent from the prior three-month period, according to Statistics Canada. At the same time, the price for a gram of pot bought in the illicit market fell 5.9 per cent to $5.59. The country’s statistics office has been publishing data on prices since before Canada legalized recreational marijuana in October 2018. It uses a crowd-sourcing application to gather information on consumer behavior and web scraping to collect prices from illegal online retailers. The latest reading was the first that showed a quarterly decrease in the cost of legal pot.

Since legalization, illegal prices have fallen 12% and legal prices have gained 4.9%, even with the third quarter’s decline. The price gap has allowed the black market to retain a robust share of Canada’s cannabis market, with 42% of cannabis consumers saying they purchased at least some of their pot from illegal sources in the second quarter.

 

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And it always will, because the black market, the market that really knows what it's doing with regard to this particular product, will never have to deal with regulatory compliance, licensing, retail overhead, and taxation issues... and it already has all the customers!

and perhaps the best pot__

Legal and illegal comes from the same source. No news. Just the Gov. Doesn't know it.

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Cannabis stocks aren't living up to the hype. Why not?This was the year when cannabis stocks were supposed to take off, but shares of all the major pot stocks are down. Is that a shame Yeah BflisFB why? Because the legal dispensaries are being greedy and charging 15 dollars a gram. You want more sales bring down the prices. 10 dollars tops for a gram. Just like the street prices. Get smart or get undersold by your competitors.
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