Same deal here in southern Ont. Brutal market. Hard to believe it's because of all these new schwagg stores. I'm sure a lot of them are getting a trickle of business. Hey it's easy and people like to "shop"
I think a lot of dedicated cannabis users are trying their hand at growing themselves. Some will give up and some won't. Therefore less customers overall.
Weed has very little value right now is an understatement.
Hard to say, personally I don't know anyone who goes to legal dispensaries and either get it from friends, local paper boy or online dispensaries. Also most people I know worked in entertainment as DJ's, promoters, in bars etc. so their lively hoods are gone so buying weed of probably the last thing on their minds as most have to find jobs in totally different industries.
Its a bit weird as after the first lock down the market was wild and for first time in 10 years or so weed from BC was going over the BC border crossings and they were paying good and sucking up everything.
About two months ago it completely stopped. I'm told its still going but the US buyers are low balling hard so I'm guessing its created a big stockpilup for mid grade weed which has forced the price down.
Personal growers might have made a difference but its still no where near how many 1-4 lighters growers there were before 2009 before the power consumption inspections killed those growers in BC.
My main gripe is there is no way for the average grower to transition to legal weed with out requiring millions to get in and no guarantee. Fuck I go anywhere in BC buy an acre of land and start farming with minimal cost.
Shatter is down to $5 per gram here. I'm hearing of one group producing huge amounts and flooding the market. Same thing happened to oil and hash. Certain group(s) used their size to jump in on it and 6 months later market is saturated and prices took a dump. They made their money after the initial runs then gave no fucks after it all crashed.