The Globe and Mail has reported that on Canada’s first day of legal recreational marijuana sales, the country is already reporting shortages and technical issues.
According to Gary Symons, the communications director for one retailer in Winnipeg, said that they had 100 orders within the first minute of what was being referred to Weed Wednesday. They had sold $50,000 of their product in the first hour, and ran out of stock by early morning.
Vic Neufeld, chief executive of Aphria Inc., a company based in Leamington, Ontario, has said, “we’re not meeting expectations,” and said that “nobody is.”
Thomas Clarke, who leads THC Distribution in Portugal Cove-St Philip’s, remarked, “I’m a little shocked that I sold out so fast, and also very upset that I don’t have product for everybody. I’m letting down a lot of people here and I was assured that if I paid for the cannabis I would receive it.” He confesses that his company started the day with less than a full supply.
According to the Montreal Gazette, over 12,500 transactions were made in store on Wednesday, and another 30,000 had been made online in Quebec. The data is per the the Société québécoise du cannabis, or SQDC.
