{"id":41032,"date":"2025-07-09T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41032"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:21:39","slug":"alcohol-sales-changed-subtly-after-canada-legalized-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41032","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol sales changed subtly after Canada legalized cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/file-20250707-56-ruxr5g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"196\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Total alcohol sales didn\u2019t change much in the first 17 months after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, but small changes appeared at the local level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/alcohol-sales-changed-subtly-after-canada-legalized-cannabis-260375\">Alcohol sales changed subtly after Canada legalized cannabis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Nova Scotia did the opposite. Its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynslc.com\/en\/Stores\">government-owned liquor corporation<\/a>\u00a0became the main cannabis retailer. After legalization in October 2018, most provincial liquor stores kept selling only alcohol, but some began selling cannabis as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total alcohol sales didn\u2019t change much in the first 17 months after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[50,84,39,149,569,949],"class_list":["post-41032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-alcohol","tag-canada","tag-cannabis","tag-dougie","tag-drug-law","tag-nova-scotia","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41035,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032\/revisions\/41035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}