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Step in the right direction. It's legal in Canada and I can report that society hasn't crumpled (nothing's really changed honestly).

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It's been like one week. At least give it a minute! ;)

The Brave New World will take a few generations, I assume.

In true Canadian style, the switchover was meticulously orderly and boring.

In provincial style, BC completely messed it up and managed to only approve one outlet for an entire province, then had police raid a handful of established “head shops” who immediately sued. Check back in a year or two.

They're also selling product for double what the street value is, so there's that. I still can't believe how poorly the province has handled this, you would have thunk that we'd be all over it given our reputation.

Street value was low enough that I think the guarantee of quality and purity is still a good value.

I’d count these glitches as pretty minor. The online store launched and took orders without a hitch starting at midnight October 17th - it’s hosted on Shopify and frankly is well done.

Yes, there was a raid on a couple of grey market dispensaries, but that was orchestrated by the local Mounties, and all in all I don’t think qualifies as a botched launch.

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