Monthly retail sales of legal adult-use marijuana in Canada declined by 7.1% from December 2022 to January 2023, to 395.5 million Canadian dollars ($287 million).
Canadian cannabis sales grew 14.1% on an annual basis from January 2022, according to retail sales data released Friday by Statistics Canada.
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Month-over-month recreational cannabis sales declined in every province except Saskatchewan, where sales grew 12.6% over December’s total to CA$19.1 million.
Sales in Ontario – Canada’s most valuable market – declined by 9.5% from December to CA$155 million.
In the remaining provinces, monthly marijuana sales and month-over-month changes were as follows:
Alberta: CA$69.5 million (-5.8%) British Columbia: CA$60.6 million (-3.9%) Quebec: CA$49.5 million (-9.3%) Manitoba: CA$16.8 million (-8%) Nova Scotia: CA$9 million (-9.2%) New Brunswick: CA$6.5 million (-14.8%) Newfoundland: CA$6 million (-6.1%) Prince Edward Island: CA$1.7 million (-11.6%)
Sales in Yukon territory declined 12.7% to CA$843,000.
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