Cannabis seeds data: Inventory, sales and licensed area

Definitions

Cannabis seeds

Viable (growable) seeds of a cannabis plant.

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.

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Cannabis seeds data

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

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

Table 1: Cannabis seeds (packaged units)

Year-Month	Packaged production	Packaged inventory		Sales
		Federal licence holders	Provincial distributors and retailers	Medical	Non-Medical
2024-03	9,493	24,063	39,980	13	10,484
2024-02	8,700	25,489	37,861	7	6,270
2024-01	9,472	20,211	35,865	9	3,167
2023-12	14,430	25,903	24,217	2	2,195
2023-11	2,870	20,530	28,547	0	2,259
2023-10	2,134	21,422	30,576	16	2,581
2023-09	2,243	22,184	30,165	12	2,567
2023-08	2,304	23,782	32,489	5	2,794
2023-07	3,142	23,807	34,151	3	3,463
2023-06	2,482	18,887	40,812	25	5,527
2023-05	3,417	22,502	42,972	61	10,667
2023-04	3,397	22,514	49,708	40	14,744
2023-03	6,093	35,680	65,893	53	11,610
2023-02	12,090	39,327	71,742	20	5,597
2023-01	18,549	39,909	65,205	2	3,975
2022-12	9,897	42,722	42,431	0	3,079
2022-11	445	33,949	46,126	30	2,688
2022-10	0	40,582	56,910	0	3,271
2022-09	60	36,290	59,340	6	3,120
2022-08	684	36,290	66,883	2	3,421
2022-07	48	36,952	62,187	0	3,521
2022-06	2,309	37,306	69,051	0	6,274
2022-05	7,437	36,774	70,233	0	12,249
2022-04	5,563	34,731	80,894	2	14,459
2019-10	3	4,225	10,373	68	677
2019-11	275	4,208	9,656	19	559
2019-12	586	4,762	8,864	20	689
2020-01	5	4,737	8,322	30	533
2020-02	883	5,742	7,695	47	623
2020-03	1	4,779	6,973	73	1,469
2020-04	1,275	9,171	5,552	62	1,798
2020-05	51,504	73,073	17,469	43	4,397
2020-06	32,760	53,082	35,230	15	4,275
2020-07	14,409	52,369	45,559	23	3,003
2020-08	0	48,517	45,711	21	2,186
2020-09	7,569	48,566	51,444	20	2,200
2020-10	7,232	57,791	46,566	22	2,593
2020-11	1,383	52,625	48,082	27	1,947
2020-12	1,543	50,536	49,669	40	2,589
2021-01	11,608	55,712	51,230	17	3,246
2021-02	18,668	68,621	51,510	11	3,857
2021-03	32,155	72,309	59,019	84	8,548
2021-04	24,696	66,858	77,604	66	11,597
2021-05	12,705	56,426	86,578	37	9,754
2021-06	9,900	54,043	88,863	32	5,418
2021-07	60	57,474	79,293	10	3,144
2021-08	1,314	31,714	75,137	40	2,654
2021-09	1,230	30,150	69,124	34	2,910
2021-10	10	29,964	67,588	16	3,021
2021-11	2,357	32,155	63,806	35	2,604
2021-12	10,040	41,132	61,159	38	4,261
2022-01	17,969	29,958	85,184	22	9,729
2022-02	10,169	33,774	69,691	16	5,210
2022-03	36,084	39,195	77,318	2	10,352

Table 2: Historic seeds data

Year-Month	Unpackaged inventory (kilograms)	Packaged inventory (units)		Sales (units)
		Federal licence holders	Provincial distributor and retailers	Medical	Non-Medical
		Units (number of seeds)
2018-10	21	9,250	0	9	0
2018-11	21	10,265	0	36	0
2018-12	17	17,650	1,104	342	48
2019-01	16	49,840	4,965	276	5,072
2019-02	17	19,695	33,305	252	4,852
2019-03	38	11,955	35,732	336	8,608
2019-04	193	45,991	35,235	273	7,342
2019-05	175	15,244	38,929	0	11,936
2019-06	193	11,201	54,286	0	7,935
2019-07	125	12,925	48,444	0	3,697
2019-08	136	23,415	45,944	0	3,939
2019-09	167	16,184	43,260	140	2,773