Crackdown on B.C.'s illegal pot shops slow in coming

Six months after cannabis became legal in Canada, dozens of dispensaries continue to operate without a provincial license in B.C. as both local governments and the province struggle to shut them down.
The robust illicit market, including “grey-market dispensaries,” were cited as the reason B.C. lags behind other Canadian provinces in legal cannabis retail sales in a recent report by Arcview Market Research.
Analyst Tom Adams wrote that legal retail outlets at the outset of legalizati