Total alcohol sales didn’t change much in the first 17 months after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, but small changes appeared at the local level.
Source: Alcohol sales changed subtly after Canada legalized cannabis
tl;dr: hard to say. but interesting that Nova Scotia used their alcohol stores instead of setting up a sepeerate retail system (like most provinces have done, including Ontario, although we originally planned for the LCBO to do cannabis sales until dougie threw that idea away…)
fta:
Nova Scotia did the opposite. Its government-owned liquor corporation became the main cannabis retailer. After legalization in October 2018, most provincial liquor stores kept selling only alcohol, but some began selling cannabis as well.
