The Quebec Cannabis Society (SQDC) announced on Friday the launch of a project that will extend the opening hours of 8 pm to 10 p.m. Thursday to Saturday.
On Sunday, these points of sale will be open until 6 p.m. From Monday to Wednesday, they will be open until 9 p.m., as is currently the case.
This new schedule will first be established on July 7 in the new branch that the SQDC is about to open in Old Montreal. Opening hours will then be extended in 19 other Quebec outlets from August 3.
The SQDC says he has chosen branches located in the most busy sectors.
The objective of this approach aims to counter the illegal market more at a time of the day when demand is present and where illegal sellers are active
According to the main vice-president, customer experience, Jean-François Dulac-Lemelin.
Saying that he wants to better adapt the offer of SQDC To the habits of cannabis consumers, Mr. Dulac-Lemelin explained that Almost 20 % of our customers and customers buy cannabis outside our network invoke opening hours
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Figures that Radio-Canada could not confirm, because the SQDC refused to provide us with the internal survey from which these data are extracted.
However, according to a survey by the Quebec Statistics Institute, In 2024, almost 69 % of Quebecers and Quebecers 15 and over having consumed cannabis during the 12 months preceding the survey supplied to the SQDCat least in part
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It should be noted that the SQDC had planned to establish this schedule as soon as the first 12 branches opened in 2018. It will however have been necessary to adopt Bill 85 – which modified the Regulation on admission periods in commercial establishments – To be able to do it.
The old-Montreal branch which will open its doors on Monday will be 107e point of sale operated by SQDC on Quebec territory.
