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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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AI is making cannabis cultivation smarter

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2 days ago

May 16, 2024

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(This story is part of the cover package in the May-June issue of MJBizMagazine.)

Machine learning is becoming increasingly common in indoor cannabis grows, as cultivators use sophisticated sensors and cameras to maintain optimal growing conditions, sound the alarm about threats such as pests or disease and reduce labor costs associated with both menial and high-level cultivation tasks.

“Cannabis has always been the enabler of some of these bleeding-edge technologies,” Nick Genty, CEO of North Carolina-based AgEye Technologies, said in an interview with MJBizMagazine.

“They’ve had the margins, and they’ve had the budgets to support investing in new technology versus some of the vegetable guys who don’t.”

There are two main reasons why cannabis and other indoor agriculture companies are implementing artificial intelligence or machine-learning

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Scapegoat or solution? Ouster of top New York marijuana official raises questions

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May 14, 2024

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The exit of Chris Alexander, the top state official overseeing New York’s rollout of adult-use marijuana sales, is seen by many as assigning blame for what has been decried as the country’s worst cannabis market launch to date.

More than three years after New York legalized adult use, only 122 stores were open for business statewide, and the market’s $123 million in 2023 sales was only about one-quarter of projections.

But whether Alexander’s departure as executive director of the state Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) will mean a turnaround – or whether his replacement, to be assigned by Gov. Kathy Hochul upon completion of Alexander’s term in September, will be any better – is far from clear, industry observers told MJBizDaily on Monday.

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