Employees tend to marijuana plants at the Aurora Cannabis Inc.
Licensed cannabis producers typically get paid once they deliver their products to provincial wholesalers, which then distribute products to retail stores. There are over 650 legal physical cannabis stores open in Ontario, the most of any province, which all rely on the OCS to be the middleman between producers and retailers.
Cannabis sales in Ontario were up 0.7 per cent to $87.8 million in February, the only province in the country to report a monthly gain, according to Statistics Canada.