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MJBizDaily Canadian retail map details cannabis store data, consumer access

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1 year ago

February 6, 2023

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How many legal cannabis stores are in Canada – and how accessible are they for consumers across the country?

MJBizDaily’s new map of Canadian cannabis retail distribution has those answers, offering a bird’s-eye view of Canada’s regulated marijuana retail sector, including:

National and provincial cannabis store numbers. The concentration of brick-and-mortar stores per 10,000 residents. The number of cannabis stores in major Canadian cities.

The map – based on provincial store and licensing data – underscores Canada’s uneven distribution of regulated marijuana retailers.

Although recreational marijuana legalization was a federal government initiative in Canada, regulating retail stores is the domain of the nation’s 13 provincial and territorial governments, with each government taking its own approach.

Unlike adult-use marijuana, regulated medical cannabis in Canada is not sold through brick-and mortar stores.

Alberta, which is Canada’s fourth-largest province by population, continues to lead the country in

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Why are US officials seizing regulated cannabis in New Mexico?

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3 days ago

April 22, 2024

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A New Mexico congressman is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to account for what regulated marijuana operators claim is a rash of seizures of state-legal cannabis at Customs and Border Protection checkpoints.

Six incidents of product loss totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars have been reported by licensed marijuana companies in New Mexico since February, when operators first alerted the state’s Cannabis Control Division about the situation, according to documents shared with MJBizDaily.

In addition to border crossings, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) maintains inspection stations along major highways in border states.

Between Feb. 14 and April 18, agents intercepted state-regulated marijuana products at the Alamogordo and Las Cruces stations operated by CBP, state documents show.

Products seized by CBP included

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Marijuana operators aim to mitigate 4/20 online outages this year

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7 days ago

April 18, 2024

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As the marijuana industry gears up for the biggest sales day of the year, retailers, point-of-sale (POS) and e-commerce service providers are working to avert another online disaster.

Operators nationwide have installed a series of measures – bolstering infrastructure, employee training, stress tests and other support mechanisms – to capture every retail dollar on Saturday, April 20, the most celebrated day of the year for cannabis enthusiasts and retailers alike.

Last year, a cascade of failures between Dutchie POS systems and their retail customers’ e-commerce menus led to widespread outages affecting hundreds, if not thousands, of stores in the United States and Canada.

Cannabis retail workers told MJBizDaily the outages knocked out online menus, prevented adult-use consumers and medical marijuana patients from placing

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Canada’s canceled licenses, ‘uncollectible’ cannabis taxes soar

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2 weeks ago

April 8, 2024

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The number of canceled cannabis business licenses have soared alongside the amount of “uncollectable” excise tax in Canada.

At least 123 federal cannabis business licenses either were canceled or pending cancellation in 2023, according to new data provided to MJBizDaily by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

That figure is almost triple the number of licenses canceled in 2022.

Companies with canceled licenses are unable to cultivate, produce, package or possess non-duty-paid cannabis.

The data paints a picture of an industry facing micro- and macroeconomic challenges, many of which were spelled out in briefing materials for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and obtained through an access-to-information request.

The latest CRA data shows that at least 212 licenses were canceled between federal marijuana legalization in late

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