The premier John Horgan said he’s tasked Solicitor General Mike Farnworth with finding ways to allow B.C.’s skilled producers to shine.
“Mr. Farnworth’s seized that and he’s been talking to small producers across the province who would prefer to have the economic benefit of having jobs here in B.C. cultivating product that’s legal in Canada rather than have us purchasing from Manitoba, Ontario and Alberta,” Horgan said.
B.C. still ranks near the top in Canada as a supplier of legal marijuana, Farnworth said in a recent telephone interview. “We grow a lot of B.C. bud here in this province,” he said. “We grow lots of B.C. cannabis. As I said, we’re the number two producer in terms of licences.”
Farnworth said he wants to chip away at the black market stronghold on cannabis in B.C. but it will take time. “In Colorado, it took more than four years for the black market to be reduced to 30 per cent,” he said. “We want to get it down as much as we can. That’s the whole goal behind legalization.”
Farnworth forecasts improved cannabis revenues in the coming months. “I expect the third quarter sales to be higher than the second quarter sales,” he said. “We sold more in the first week in October than we did in the entire month of October.”
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