Subj : more cannabis stores than needed
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Tue Jan 31 2023 07:13:58

Hey, Aug!

You didn't add your thoughts to this. . . :( 

What are they?

I think the self-declared leadership elite want us slow & dope-y for the next  set of incursions against our Constitutional rights & dope has made most people unable and/or unwilling to even understand what these are & how they're being  assaulted. . .

In the first year of Covid in BC liquor stores were required to stay open by  law -- "necessary services" & what few dispensaries we had in 2020 had to do  likewise. . .

There was no way to centrally reach & control the sellers of street narcotics,  sothey just ramped up service at the Safe Injection Site

Remember when government tried to HELP people get OFF of addictions?

Bregards,

/George

> Canadian cannabis sales reach all-time high in April
> Retail sales top more than $372 million countrywide.
> Author of the article: Sam Riches
> Publishing date: Jun 23, 2022  - Last Updated June 23, 2022  -  2 minute read
> Canadian retail cannabis sales set a new monthly record sales
> record in April, reaching $372.4 million.
> Released by Statistics Canada, the latest figures mark a near
> four per cent increase from March, when sales were $359
> million, and about a 15 per cent increase from February, when
> sales dipped to $324 million, according to revised numbers from
> the federal agency.
> Ontario, now home to more than 1,500 dispensaries, led the
> country with more than $150 million in sales. Alberta posted
> just under $65 million in sales, while B.C. recorded slightly
> less than $53 million to round out the top three.
> B.C. and P.E.I. were the only provinces to post a month-over-
> month decrease, with sales dipping from $56 million in B.C. in
> March.
> P.E.I., meanwhile, saw a slight reduction, recording $1.75
> million in sales in April, down from $1.76 million in March.
> Quebec posted just over $50 million in sales. The figures will
> likely look different next month, as more than 300 union
> members of the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) began a
> general strike in May.
> Union members are calling for salaries and benefits similar to
> those working in other comparable provincial corporations,
> including the Quebec Liquor Corp. (SAQ).
> "These SQDC workers barely earn $17/hour upon hiring and the
> majority have no full-time position or job security, which puts
> them in an untenable precarious position," the Canadian Union
> of Public Employees noted in a statement last month.
> A recent report from Connecticut-based data firm Cannabis
> Benchmarks found that Quebec, where the government-owned SQDC
> has a monopoly on recreational sales, is the country's "biggest
> laggard" when it comes to cannabis retail.
> As of April, there were 88 SQDC retail cannabis stores
> operating in the province. The report found that the "optimal"
> number of retail stores is more than 1,100.
> The report also noted that Ontario could support nearly 500
> more stores to reach its "optimal level."
> Alberta, meanwhile, was the only province cited in the report
> to have more cannabis stores than needed.
> "We expect the number of stores in Alberta to decline over the
> next 24 months, as competition intensifies and store economics
> become less favourable," the report stated.

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