Dried flower remains Canadians' top pot purchase in 2020 with over $2B sold
Canadians bought more than $2 billion of dried flower cannabis products last year, while sales of edible products remained muted, according to Statistics Canada.
StatsCan's quarterly retail commodity survey showed dried flower continued to dominate the legal Canadian recreational market, accounting for more than three-quarters of all sales. Roughly $2.01 billion of dried flower, which also includes pre-rolls, were sold in 2020, with the fourth-quarter seeing nearly double the amount sold from the prior year with $614.4 million, according to StatsCan.
Interestingly, the next leading category was extracts and concentrates, which came in at $323.9 million sold last year, or 12.3 per cent of all sales. The category, which was only made available for legal sale in Oct. 2019, surged in retail activity with quarterly sales tripling by the fourth-quarter of the year to $123.7 million. Extract sales also includes vape products, but StatsCan doesn't further break down sales within the category.