Canada’s medical hashish market has continued to say no post-legalization, new figures from Well being Canada have proven.

Within the last quarter of 2023, the variety of registrations for medical shoppers with federally licensed sellers fell by 2%, dropping from 188,301 in September 2023 to 183,909 in December 2023.

This decline continues a development that began in 2019, with year-on-year registrations falling almost 20% from 224,474 in December 2022.

The overwhelming majority of people entry hashish for medical functions from quality-controlled federally licensed sellers, and the typical day by day quantity licensed by well being care practitioners has remained at 2g per day because the Hashish Act was introduced in in 2018.

Nonetheless, a smaller portion of medical sufferers are registered with Well being Canada for ‘private or designated manufacturing’.

The variety of sufferers on this class has additionally been falling persistently since 2021, when it peaked at almost 50,000.

Between September 2023 and December 2023 the variety of sufferers on this class additionally fell by 9% to 13,672, with nearly all of the lower coming from Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec.

Well being Canada notes that whereas this class is declining, the typical day by day licensed quantity for these people has seen a ‘progressive and regarding improve’ in some jurisdictions.

The common day by day quantity licensed for people registered for private or designated manufacturing was 33g per day, considerably above the two.4g per day common for these accessing medical hashish by federally licensed sellers over the past 12 months.

“Well being Canada is anxious that prime day by day licensed quantities are, in just a few situations, resulting in abuse of the entry to hashish for medical functions framework and are undermining the integrity of the system that many sufferers – and well being care practitioners – depend on to entry hashish to deal with their medical wants.”

Whereas 4879 well being care practitioners had been related to registrations made by federally licenced sellers, there have been simply 941 related to private manufacturing registrations.

Of those, 222 licensed quantities of over 25g a day, and 13 licensed quantities of 100g or above.

Practically 80% of these authorizing over 25g per day, 100% of these authorizing over 100g per day, had been situated in British Columbia or Ontario.