Canada's Cannabis Industry Challenges
Canada’s Cannabis Industry Challenges. Harvesting every week; watch the video below to see what a giant room filled with almost a million dollars looks like. Most of the value is in this room; right this room has about eight hundred thousand dollars worth of cost. It is as sophisticated of an operation as you can imagine
Canada's Cannabis Industry Challenges
Pure Sun Farms uses 1.6 million square feet of its property in Delta, BC, to produce mountains of legal cannabis inside a factory of sorts, professional growers treating the plants like delicacies. The space smells exactly like what you think it would; it’s also well ventilated.
Today Pure Sun Farms are the number one producer of dried flower cannabis in Canada and are a single site operator or one of the largest operators in Canada. If not, the world statistics have been harder to come across since the pandemic’s beginning, but the legal production and sale of cannabis contributed 2.4 billion dollars to bc’s GDP in 2019.
That year 19 percent of people in bc reported being using cannabis, and 6.5 percent of Canadians polled by StatsCan said their consumption had increased at the start of coveting 19.
More than three years since legalization, taxes and strict rules slowing down production have not made for a smooth road, but the province and the industry agree. The biggest challenge continues to be that black market facilities like this are highly efficient.
“From a cost basis, we can out-compete for the illicit market, so I think that’s the first and foremost just as important is the quality of our product in terms of transparency and clean product there have been studies done that show the illicit product is full of pesticides and illegal contaminants.
We don’t have access to any of those products to use, so customers know they’re getting a clean true, quality product when they buy legal sources of cannabis,” said (Mandesh Dosanjh, Pure Sunfarms, CEO).
What’s next for this industry could be lobbying the province for on-site sales and regulated public consumption facilities sometime in the near future.
