Anything that is happening is by design, decided long ago in backroom deals. Minor variations are okay, but for the most part, their narrative will play out exactly as they planned.
In other parts of the world that have legalized in various ways, first there's a supply shortfall, and then there's a supply glut. Canada is about to switch over from shortfall to glut.
Legal cannabis is 3 or 4 times more expensive than properly grown free market bud, and quite a bit lower quality. It's irradiated (not cured), harsh, dead, and low in trichome heads. Full of chemicals and pesticides, sometimes even banned shit like Myclobutanil. They only thing going for it is that you don't get 14 years in prison for participating in it.
So enforcement against the "black market" (freedom) will ramp up, supposedly to stamp it out, since they will blame the black market (freedom) for prices being so low.
But why should prices be high?
Who does that benefit? Certainly not the patients and other consumers. Higher prices is good for corporations and insiders that have permission to grow and sell. And it's good for government because higher prices mean more taxation.
But cannabis is literally a weed. It should be priced like a weed. Currently it's the most expensive plant in Canada, and also the most "legal" plant in Canada. Hmmm. Something's not right.
Fuck the pot stocks and any douchey profiteer trying to get rich that way. Scumbags, every last one of them. The legal regime devotes part of their income to stamping out the free market (activists, patients, and peaceful growers like myself). They lobby government to demand more enforcement against dispensaries that don't have a license. I have zero respect for anyone involved in the legal regime in Canada, I will never support it, I will always speak out against its sinister ways, and my activism won't be over until true cannabis freedom is achieved for the PEOPLE here in Canada.

My wife has a prescription for cannabis, saying she needs it every day to keep herself alive, signed by her doctors. There's no higher 'permission form' in Canada than that. Yet it isn't supplied to her like all other prescriptions in Canada are. She has to get it herself, and pay for it herself. What's worse, when she does so, she gets arrested and jailed! Hopefully people see a problem with this system. Legalization is a lie.
Like I said, cannabis can be grown literally for nothing, except love and knowledge. Once you know how, if you put time and effort in, you can produce cannabinoids of high caliber. I've proved it over and over, as have many others. So I can easily produce the medicine my wife needs, so that she doesn't get thrown in jail (even though she has a prescription).... but I would go to prison for 14 years just for growing those plants, and extracting the cannabinoids.
This is why legalization is a lie, can never be supported by anyone with a conscience, and why I won't stop fighting cannabis prohibition until it's completely gone. Legalization is a massive step in the wrong direction and Canadians are far less free today than we were a few years ago.