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When Harrison Stoker notices a big spike in daily sales volume at one of the 20 Dutch Love cannabis shops he oversees, he invariably gets the same explanation when he queries store staff: There was a raid that day at the illegal pot shop nearby.
At Dutch Love’s Kitsilano location, for example, Stoker has noticed daily sales nearly double on days when there’s enforcement action at Canna Clinic, the long-running unlicensed pot shop on the next block.
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Lack of legal cannabis in B.C. s access deserts is helping illicit market thrive, retailers say
Across a large swath of B.C.’s South Coast, there lies an area the cannabis industry has dubbed an access desert. It’s a group of municipalities that two years after legalization still doesn’t have retail cannabis outlets within its boundaries.
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12 municipalities, including Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond and Delta, still don t have a storefront for legal weed
Posted: Dec 16, 2020 4:00 AM PT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
Cannabis industry insiders say the unavailability of legal cannabis drives consumers to the black market.(CBC News/Shawn Foss)