加拿大的合法大麻已供不應求。娛樂用大麻合法的法律生效才四天，全國零售店的大麻已經幾乎銷售一空。

“亂套了，供應完全跟不上。”加拿大阿爾伯塔省大麻經銷店Waldo’s 420 Store的店主帕特里克·華萊士對加拿大廣播公司（CBC）表示。

今年6月，加拿大議會投票批準大麻合法，于10月17日生效，加拿大各省的相關法規各有不同。剛剛獲得合法身份的大麻產業年銷售額估計能達到65億美元。

而據新媒體Vice報道，在合法化的第一天就出現了問題。無論是在魁北克、薩斯喀徹溫、紐芬蘭三個省和加拿大西北地區全境，還是網店，消費者都很難買到合法的大麻產品。

經營大麻的商家要拿到牌照才能出售，現在即便持有牌照，店家想再次下單時也訂不到足夠的貨。有些情況下店主下單后只能滿足一部分。一方面供應有限，另一方面則是遠超預期的需求。

加拿大卡爾伯里市的大麻商家Beltline Cannabis的店主凱倫·巴里告訴CBC：“我們經營網店，但網上根本沒有貨，一點都沒有。相信阿爾伯塔博彩、酒類和大麻委員會（Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission）正努力解決問題。”

一些店鋪則選擇在供應問題解決前歇業，掛上“售罄”的牌子。

今年9月，一些早早獲得經營牌照的商家可以預訂即將合法的大麻產品。即便當時也存在供應問題。華萊士向CBC透露，廣告宣傳了300款產品，但只能買到70種。剛拿到牌照的店家面臨的供應短缺形勢則更為嚴重。

“合法化已經四天了……面對短缺大家都束手無策。”阿爾伯塔博彩、酒類和大麻委員會的女發言人希瑟·霍爾曼對CBC說。（財富中文網）

譯者：Pessy

審校：夏林

Canada can’t keep up with demand for newly legal weed. Four days after the country put marijuana legalization into effect nationally, retail shops are nearly sold out.

“It’s a mess. The supply is just a mess,” Patrick Wallace, owner of the Alberta shop Waldo’s 420 Store, told CBC.

Canada’s Parliament voted to legalize marijuana in June, and that decision went into effect on October 17, with differing rules across Canada’s provinces. The newly legal industry is expected to be worth $6.5 billion in annual sales.

The problem started on the first day of legalization, when customers across Quebec, Saskatchewan, Canada’s Northwest Territories, Newfoundland, and online shops all had trouble securing legal weed, Vice reported.

Stores selling marijuana are issued licenses to do so, but even those licensed shops haven’t been able to access enough supply when it’s time to reorder. Orders storeowners placed have in some cases only contained part of what was requested, and demand for that limited supply has far exceeded expectations.

“We were on the website, but there is nothing on the website. There is no product,” Karen Barry of Calgary’s Beltline Cannabis told CBC. “I’m sure the [Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission] is working hard to remedy the problem.”

Some stores have closed up shop until the supply problem is fixed, posting “out of stock” signs.

Even in September, when early license holders were able to preorder the soon-to-be-legal product, supply was a problem. Wallace told CBC that of 300 advertised products, only 70 were available at the time. Shops just getting their licenses now are facing an even worse shortage.

“It’s day four of legalization … and nobody has all the answers right now,” AGLC spokeswoman Heather Holmen told CBC.