Cannabis plants data: Inventory, sales and licensed area

Definitions

Packaged inventory

Cannabis held in stock by a cultivator, processor, distributor, or retailer that is packaged for sale to consumers at the retail level.

Packaged production

The number of cannabis products resulting from unpackaged cannabis being placed into final packaging for sale to consumers at the retail level during the reporting period.

Sales (medical)

Cannabis products sold directly to medical clients by holders of a federal licence for medical sales.

Sales (non-medical)

Cannabis products sold directly in the Canadian retail market, online or in-person, by a provincially or territorially authorized distributor or retailer, for non-medical purposes.

Unpackaged inventory

Cannabis held in stock by a cultivator or processor that is not packaged for sale to consumers at the retail level.

Unpackaged production

The amount of cannabis produced from activities conducted onsite by cultivators and/or processors and added to the unpackaged inventory during the reporting period.

Vegetative cannabis plants

Cannabis plants that are not budding or flowering (clones and seedlings).

Whole cannabis plants

Budding or flowering cannabis plants (unpackaged only).

The data on this page is also available on Open Government.

Cannabis plants data

The data presented in this figure is available in Table 1.

The data presented in this figure is available in Table 1.

The data presented in this figure is available in Table 2.

Table 1: Vegetative cannabis plants (clones, seedlings)

Year-Month	Unpackaged production	Unpackaged inventory	Packaged production	Packaged inventory		Sales
				Federal licence holders	Provincial distributor and retailers	Medical	Non-Medical
2024-03	1,878,992	2,483,379	652	160	115	66	646
2024-02	1,780,554	2,310,138	135	70	45	2,170	123
2024-01	1,757,213	2,233,739	155	75	99	2,815	210
2023-12	1,547,130	2,285,207	111	20	21	2,513	145
2023-11	1,627,211	2,311,822	85	20	53	1,803	117
2023-10	1,502,821	2,206,855	361	224	78	28	168
2023-09	1,420,920	2,088,637	106	224	100	74	113
2023-08	1,640,226	2,542,766	271	224	108	2,133	196
2023-07	1,785,221	3,133,680	248	224	238	1,365	577
2023-06	2,068,097	3,050,582	1,821	464	286	4,120	6,158
2023-05	2,229,726	2,967,779	4,156	514	227	3,808	3,284
2023-04	1,847,854	2,877,371	2,740	0	183	96	1,769
2023-03	2,063,292	2,682,534	1,917	119	136	4,525	757
2023-02	1,761,786	2,659,192	279	0	0	22	253
2023-01	1,935,008	2,546,610	1,090	60	0	236	0
2022-12	1,819,911	2,486,045	10	111	0	991	4
2022-11	1,911,992	2,645,631	90	111	4	1,211	0
2022-10	1,876,313	2,735,704	154	117	2	2,488	0
2022-09	1,819,087	2,731,199	14	111	3	52	0
2022-08	2,074,810	3,259,900	208	0	3	149	0
2022-07	2,094,381	3,734,324	1,126	0	0	704	0
2022-06	2,679,947	3,902,098	4,599	0	44	2,980	7
2022-05	2,937,809	3,662,437	722	0	7	614	33
2022-04	2,384,393	3,168,718	1,648	0	0	794	27
2019-10	2,576,671	2,835,956	178	6	17	78	24
2019-11	2,353,129	2,986,388	32	6	0	27	5
2019-12	2,542,479	3,183,834	14	6	0	14	2
2020-01	2,747,881	3,312,373	0	6	0	0	2
2020-02	2,318,173	3,261,563	4,626	6	0	10	0
2020-03	2,706,760	2,927,958	6,246	6	0	6	0
2020-04	2,753,562	2,976,254	5,233	6	0	4	0
2020-05	3,070,596	3,380,923	9	6	0	5	40
2020-06	3,194,625	3,724,514	124	6	0	977	24
2020-07	2,867,413	3,301,036	1,030	6	0	1,134	24
2020-08	2,288,027	2,796,804	506	6	0	1,134	10
2020-09	2,574,056	2,716,252	337	6	0	677	3
2020-10	2,336,037	2,515,660	360	71	2	220	10
2020-11	1,965,223	2,268,810	30	71	0	846	2
2020-12	2,366,696	2,442,941	214	71	3	1,734	6
2021-01	2,211,123	2,481,765	9	6	3	1	3
2021-02	2,319,803	2,626,535	75	6	0	1,036	0
2021-03	2,566,764	2,615,864	148	6	0	569	0
2021-04	2,584,721	2,882,420	378	242	0	1,127	3
2021-05	2,953,240	3,311,435	571	6	0	744	16
2021-06	3,480,780	3,991,396	325	6	0	805	31
2021-07	2,809,211	3,433,820	32	6	0	470	2
2021-08	2,527,133	2,947,711	173	6	0	7	0
2021-09	2,535,927	2,639,983	53	6	0	512	2
2021-10	2,422,372	2,650,396	21	6	0	651	0
2021-11	2,683,017	2,845,832	83	6	0	1,031	0
2021-12	2,527,553	2,739,886	216	156	0	599	0
2022-01	2,296,174	2,820,382	28	150	0	61	0
2022-02	2,422,900	3,085,459	244	0	0	384	0
2022-03	2,595,971	3,091,661	57	0	0	2,336	0

Table 2: Whole cannabis plants (flowering)

Year-Month	Unpackaged production	Unpackaged inventory
2024-03	1,085,931	2,426,041
2024-02	1,059,974	2,374,362
2024-01	1,026,032	2,421,724
2023-12	1,063,660	2,048,187
2023-11	976,227	1,923,886
2023-10	951,026	1,994,530
2023-09	1,191,309	2,542,842
2023-08	1,539,790	2,429,010
2023-07	967,099	1,929,392
2023-06	1,227,466	2,015,086
2023-05	1,194,395	1,969,771
2023-04	1,098,802	2,165,664
2023-03	1,213,302	2,168,508
2023-02	1,093,431	2,185,240
2023-01	1,104,490	2,214,383
2022-12	1,247,186	2,368,437
2022-11	1,150,896	2,285,130
2022-10	1,202,940	2,482,464
2022-09	1,448,054	2,835,271
2022-08	1,806,039	3,049,530
2022-07	1,427,299	2,666,539
2022-06	1,423,657	2,596,437
2022-05	1,411,510	2,663,888
2022-04	1,372,902	2,745,346
2019-10	1,419,889	2,532,483
2019-11	1,274,336	2,371,870
2019-12	1,470,283	2,568,565
2020-01	1,481,252	2,575,352
2020-02	1,434,562	2,726,490
2020-03	1,712,330	2,967,146
2020-04	1,749,090	3,224,931
2020-05	1,647,312	3,137,131
2020-06	1,770,954	3,034,803
2020-07	1,955,526	3,179,929
2020-08	1,719,068	3,555,001
2020-09	1,587,402	2,977,751
2020-10	1,693,769	3,117,193
2020-11	1,171,934	2,780,018
2020-12	1,252,196	2,730,170
2021-01	1,582,537	2,779,054
2021-02	1,656,371	2,867,283
2021-03	1,780,444	2,794,105
2021-04	1,706,217	2,814,676
2021-05	1,834,527	2,858,134
2021-06	1,930,978	2,813,991
2021-07	2,417,086	3,337,713
2021-08	2,326,451	3,576,697
2021-09	2,175,796	3,752,522
2021-10	1,777,893	3,175,277
2021-11	1,871,755	3,002,000
2021-12	1,988,492	3,215,507
2022-01	1,404,377	3,090,553
2022-02	1,510,040	3,077,921
2022-03	1,510,306	2,833,597

Table 3: Historic cannabis plants data (units)

Year-Month	Unpackaged inventory	Packaged inventory		Sales
		Federal licence holders	Provincial distributor and retailers	Medical	Non-Medical
2018-10	1,692,003	0	0	618	0
2018-11	2,168,869	0	0	1,257	0
2018-12	2,330,814	0	0	1,027	50
2019-01	2,682,433	0	0	819	23
2019-02	3,131,711	0	0	356	17
2019-03	3,798,357	0	0	190	17
2019-04	4,103,169	0	0	416	17
2019-05	4,903,776	16	0	202	10
2019-06	5,379,742	22	58	832	47
2019-07	5,274,187	16	4	561	9
2019-08	5,393,211	6	0	136	0
2019-09	4,944,695	6	0	104	0
Note: Prior to October 17, 2019, the Cannabis Tracking System did not distinguish cannabis plants as "vegetative cannabis plants" or "whole cannabis plants".