Canada’s overall recreational cannabis sales inched higher in August, but a wholesale outage in Ontario, the country’s largest market, limited nationwide growth to less than 1%.
Consumers purchased 393.7 million Canadian dollars ($330 million) worth of adult-use products in August, up from July’s CA$392.9 million, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.
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Compared with the previous month, sales rose 1.8% month-over-month outside Ontario in August but fell in the province by 2.2%, or CA$3.4 million.
Ontario’s provincial monopoly wholesaler had suspended all deliveries to retailers for part of August after a cyberattack struck the parent company that operates its distribution center.
Full deliveries didn’t resume until weeks later.
The delays underscored an “urgent need for reform,” the province’s Chamber of Commerce has said.
In British Columbia, job action at the province’s monopoly distributor left some regulated cannabis stores with too little inventory, forcing them to close their
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