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Cattledog

(6,338 posts)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 03:25 PM Nov 2018

Why is Canada running out of marijuana?

In the early days of legalisation, James Burns was confident his company had enough product on the shelves of its five new cannabis retail stores, even though they only received half of their order from the provincial supplier.

Now, he has had staff refreshing the government supply website in the early hours to snap up scarce new stock as soon as it's available, and is considering restricting store hours.

"While there was product to order we were very comfortably getting a large amount of it," says Burns, the CEO of Alcanna, a company that owns a chain of private liquor stores in Canada and the US and, now, cannabis stores in the province of Alberta.

"But obviously, when there's literally none there, it doesn't matter how big you are, there's just none there. If the government warehouse is empty, it's empty. There's nothing you can do."

Since the first day recreational cannabis was legalised in Canada, there have been shortages.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-46200873?fbclid=IwAR2fpj6uVQfwAG1FgGHTI3-4WlqoGVnYc6fNi7d3F2pV0xARhfAFbnpaS2o

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Why is Canada running out of marijuana? (Original Post) Cattledog Nov 2018 OP
There is so much safeinOhio Nov 2018 #1
Where...where in Michigan? Duppers Nov 2018 #2

safeinOhio

(34,075 posts)
1. There is so much
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 03:43 PM
Nov 2018

Home grown in Michigan that they are giving it away for free. I really can’t see how there will be any money in it. Put seeds in dirt, then just stand back and watch it grow. Now the money is in seeds and clones.

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