Canopy Growth in November introduced its Claybourne’s Frosted Flyers Infused Pre-Rolls into what it called “the rapidly growing and established infused segment in Canada,” noting that the pre-roll joint market in Canada has grown by 94% since 2022.
Photo courtesy of CNW Group/Canopy Growth Corporation
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In 2015, in “Canadian Home Grown,” we wrote that Site Selection had been tracking plants for decades, but not plants like these, as Canada’s “Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations” (MMPR) had gone into effect in 2014.
What is the status of the weed industry in Canada today? First, in October 2018 Canada’s Cannabis Act came into force, providing legal, restricted access to cannabis and controlling and regulating its production, distribution and sale. Statistics Canada reported in April 2024 that “sales of recreational cannabis by provincial cannabis authorities and other retail outlets increased 15.8% to $4.7 billion in the 2022/2023 fiscal year,” with Canadians of legal age spending on average $150 per year per person on cannabis. “Two of every five dollars spent on legal cannabis enter government coffers,” the agency found. “Federal and provincial governments received $1.9 billion from the control and sale of recreational cannabis in 2022/2023, up by almost one-quarter (+24.2%) from a year earlier.”
In December, Health Canada released results of its latest survey on non-medical cannabis use in Canada, which found that “72% of those who reported consuming cannabis in the past 12 months reported usually purchasing their cannabis from a legal source (storefront or website), an increase from 4% in 2018.”
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