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It’s late afternoon and you receive a text message: “Friends coming for dinner. Please pick up wine.” You pull into the neighbourhood liquor store, pick up a bottle of your favourite wine and head home. A familiar scene taking place across the province every day.

When you go into your local liquor store, you have confidence knowing that you are buying a quality product in a secure environment, with stores conveniently located in every community across the province.

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B.C.’s public and private liquor stores have a proven track record over many decades, selling controlled alcohol products to adults in a responsible manner, with more than a 90 per cent compliance rate in restricting sales to minors.

B.C.’s liquor stores are a perfect fit for non-medical cannabis sales, especially given the tight timeline for implementation of July 1, 2018 provided by the federal government. B.C.’s efficient liquor distribution network has been serving controlled products to British Columbians for 96 years.