[cmrdporcupine]

The committed cannabis smokers don't want to spend the extra money, and the rest of us don't care about it enough to keep all these businesses alive.

I live near an ex-urb/suburb of about 20,000 people. There's about 5 Tim Hortons franchises, and I think about 7 cannabis retailers at last count. I strolled into one the other day, a saturday afternoon, and it was a ghost town. Not a person in sight. At least the Tim Hortons have a line-up of addicts at the drive-thru.

I suspect anybody who is serious about smoking the stuff either grows their own (you're permitted up to 4 plants, which is a lot really) or "has a guy."

I live rural, and I have neighbours on one side open-air growing a bunch of plants. Eagerly awaiting first frost, because right now it smells like a college dorm room outside.