Hexo to launch low-cost pot product to undercut illicit market shops [Business News Network (BNN) Energy & Resources (Canada)]
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Hexo to launch low-cost pot product to undercut illicit market shops Cannabis company Hexo Corp. is moving to undercut prices in the illicit market with a new 28-gram product that costs consumers as much as one dollar less per gram than at the average illegal dispensary. The product, under the brand Original Stash, which will be on sale in Quebec cannabis stores starting Thursday for $125.70, or $4.49 per gram, including taxes, the company said. That's cheaper than the average cost of a gram of cannabis at $7.37 per gram during the third quarter, with the price of legal and illegal weed at $10.23 and $5.59 per gram, respectively, according to the latest Statistics Canada analysis of crowdsourced data. Hexo is targeting the roughly half of Canadians who -- one year after the legalization of recreational pot -- are still buying weed from the illicit market, its chief executive Sebastien St-Louis said. "That 51 per cent of Canadians that buys illegally, when they walk into their dealer,
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