Just two days after the Marijuana legislation was passed, Canadians eager to buy in public faced a long queue crisis and supply shortages in some parts of the country.
On Wednesday, Canada became the first industrialized country to legitimize marijuana after a nearly century-long ban, culminating in the efforts of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who began his attempts to legislate marijuana two years ago.
As fans of the drug lined up in long queues, they were disappointed that they could not buy marijuana on the first day.
Others rejected relatively high prices - prices ranged from $ 5.25 to Canadian dollars in Quebec to $ 18.99 in Saskatchewan per gram - compared to the black market, which saw average prices last year drop to $ 6.79 per gram.
After waiting seven hours in a shop in downtown Montreal on Wednesday, Alexander, 30, said he was deported at 9 pm after police intervened to disperse the packed crowd in front of the shops. Alexander returned early on Thursday morning to try again.
In Ontario, Canada's most densely populated province, 38,000 marijuana applications were handled in the first few hours of Wednesday, while sales reached about 42,000 in nearby Quebec, through shops and the Internet, breaking all expectations.
A shortage of supplies was reported in the provinces of Newfoundland and Saskatchewan, as well as in the Arctic region of Nunavut.
Meanwhile, many online retailers warned, customers expect a delay in shipping up to five days with late work of night packing orders.
Canadian mail workers are also preparing to start work on Monday, more than a year after the suspension of contract talks, which could delay the delivery of online orders.
The move is a political victory for Trudeau, who pledged to legalize cannabis in his campaign in 2015 in an effort to deprive organized crime gangs of drug profits and regulate the production, distribution and consumption of marijuana consumed by millions of Canadians illegally.
