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Canada’s legal cannabis market gets off to a slow start

by The Americas, posted 18 12 2019

The country’s cautious legalisation has made investors glum

COLOURFUL CANS labelled Pink Kush, Moon and Trail Blazer are arranged invitingly in the glass-doored cooler at Superette, a cannabis store in the trendy Westboro area of Ottawa. But they are just models for marketing purposes. A sales clerk, wearing a white Superette toque and matching T-shirt, explains that cannabis-infused drinks and edibles, like chocolates, biscuits and sweets, will probably not go on sale until early January, even though the government finished its review process by December 16th. “Wheels of bureaucracy,” the salesman explains.

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/12/18/canadas-legal-cannabis-market-gets-off-to-a-slow-start?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/downfromahighcanadaslegalcannabismarketgetsofftoaslowstarttheamericas