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After a bumpy birth, the country’s legal cannabis sector should fully bloom in the coming year, say those plying the trade.

Millions more square feet of plant production expected to come on line should ease supply shortages that have hobbled pot’s retail side, say those in industry.

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That, and a flood of new federal sales licences for producers can’t come soon enough for retailers and their provincial government distributors who’ve felt the supply pinch.

“By the end of the second quarter of next year, there’ll be a massive improvement in the amount of supply available,” said Mark Goliger, CEO of National Access Cannabis, which operates what’s currently the largest chain of cannabis stores in Canada.

“We won’t reach surplus, but the big suppliers will reach a mass capacity to supply the market.”

Logistical hiccups, such as those in packaging, should also be worked out sometime during the year, said Goliger.