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.