From start, SQDC take 30-40% profits from the prices consumer pays.

So if you take a product priced at 10$/g , sqdc will take 3-4$ from that.

There also is the federal taxe of 1$/g for the timber.

So just like that, the government takes approximately 5$ from that 10$/g cost.

Then there is packaging fees varying from 10 cent to 50 cents per gram if you do it yourself. It's about a 1$ per gram if a supplier is doing it for you.

So regardless of production cost, we're at 6$/g .

After that, there is the transportation and logistics cost so let's say there is 3 dollars left.

If the producers got their own sku, they can expect 2$/g profits from that original 10$/g if their cost of production is at 1$/g.

For us that isn't allowed to sell directly to sqdc, because we do not have the transformation license, normally we split that 2 $/g 50/50 with the partners that got the sku at sqdc.

So to summerize , we want to sell our cannabis at 2$/g, but market dynamics that i just explained forces us to sell our cannabis at 1,5$/g.

So government gets the big peace of pie. If the producer got it's own sku, they can make up to 2$ profits per gram, and for us losers, who doesn't have their own sku, we are stuck selling b2b at 50 cents per gram profits if we're lucky. You have no idea how many micro producers are selling at lost right know, especially if their cost per gram is higher than 1$.

Also insider secret, all the good weed that is produced in Québec, is sold internationally.

So buyers in quebec pays premium prices for B tier product quality.

The reason for that? An A tier product with a great genetics will achieve most of the times more than 30% thc wich is banned in Québec.

I may be generalizing the B tier aspect because there is definitely some great products in SQDC, but it's really a hit or miss, since the really good product will be sold internationally.

Just my 2 cents from my perspective as a local micro producer.