MED SALES DROPPED 25% AFTER LEGALIZATION

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Between October 2018 and June of this year, MED sales declined by 25%. Though licensed MED client registrations had been steady for years, since October they've largely stalled.MJ Biz Daily

• Provinces with the greatest number of REC stores saw the greatest decline in MED sales.
• The chief barrier to MED growth is excise tax, which increased the cost of MED by up to 30%, depending on province.
• Materia CEO Deepak Anand called for governments to 

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