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Market Insights Snapshot
Community Cannabis c/o Purple Hills concentrated 78.79% of August 2026 sales in Pre-Roll, where category sales grew 64.78% year over year but slipped 1.93% month over month, indicating momentum with a near-term pullback; Concentrates held 17.05% share with a 32.18% year-over-year decline but a 10.29% month-over-month lift, signaling stabilization off a lower base. Vapor Pens shrank to 2.68% share with an 85.75% year-over-year drop and a further 20.03% month-over-month decline, while Flower, despite only 1.48% share, spiked 214.82% month over month after a 61.56% year-over-year fall, implying a small but volatile re-entry. With average price down 23.20% year over year to $14.68 and a Pre-Roll rank of 52 in Ontario, the mix indicates price-led volume capture in Pre-Roll while secondary categories bifurcate between a recovering Concentrates line and a retreating Vapor Pens portfolio; the pattern implies the brand is leaning on Pre-Roll scale to offset weakness elsewhere.
The concentration in Pre-Roll alongside a 64.78% year-over-year growth rate but 1.93% month-over-month dip positions the brand as a value-forward Pre-Roll specialist whose month-level fluctuations matter less than sustaining share near the 78.79% mark; meanwhile, Concentrates’ 10.29% month-over-month uptick amid a 32.18% year-over-year decline suggests selective promotions can revive throughput without restoring prior scale. The 85.75% year-over-year contraction and 20.03% month-over-month drop in Vapor Pens points to a deprioritized or outcompeted SKU set, whereas Flower’s 214.82% month-over-month surge on 1.48% share looks like test-and-learn rather than a pillar. Net of these moves, a Pre-Roll rank of 52 in Ontario coupled with a 23.20% average price compression implies the near-term positioning is value-density in Pre-Roll while the brand triages portfolio breadth, using Concentrates for incremental margin opportunities and keeping Flower optionality without overcommitting.
Competitive Landscape
Community Cannabis c/o Purple Hills sits at rank #52 in ON Pre-Roll for August 2026, improving 11 places from #63 year over year, and edging up 2 spots from #54 in May 2026; this coincides with hitting a peak rank of #52 in August 2026 while remaining outside the top 50. Among leaders, Back Forty / Back 40 Cannabis moved up from #2 to #1 with 56.6% YoY sales growth, while General Admission slipped from #1 to #2 alongside a 28.1% YoY sales decline, indicating that the head of the category is fluid even as Thumbs Up Brand surged from #10 to #3 on 70.7% growth. The mix of upward mobility at the top and Community Cannabis c/o Purple Hills’ modest rank lift implies incremental traction but also a widening performance gap that will require step-change gains to convert a #52 peak into sustained top-40 presence.

Notable Products
Purple Stuff Distillate Disposable (0.5g) posted the steepest decline at -61.3% month over month and slid to rank 10, while Indica XL Distillate Cartridge (1.2g) also fell -20.2% at rank 5, indicating a volatility pocket within Vapor Pens. In contrast, Purple Hills XL Distillate Cartridge (1.2g) jumped 51.6% to rank 7 and 95+ Island Drip Distillate Cartridge (0.95g) rose 17.5% at rank 4, but Vapor Pens still count three SKUs in the top ten with mixed trajectories that complicate resource allocation. TwoFer Pre-Roll 2-Pack (2g) grew 42.9% to reclaim rank 1 while Bakery Preroll 14-Pack (7g) dipped -3.9% at rank 2, concentrating leadership in Pre-Rolls even as Concentrates split with a +11.4% gain for Hybrid Hash (3g) at rank 3 and a -45.4% drop for Marrakesh Express Hash (3g) at rank 8. Overall, the pattern implies a pivot toward reinforcing Pre-Roll momentum while pruning underperforming Vapor Pen SKUs to stabilize category mix.
Top Selling Cannabis Brands
Data for this report comes from real-time sales reporting by participating cannabis retailers via their point-of-sale systems, which are linked up with Headset’s business intelligence software. Headset’s data is very reliable, as it comes digitally direct from our partner retailers. However, the potential does exist for misreporting in the instance of duplicates, incorrectly classified products, inaccurate entry of products into point-of-sale systems, or even simple human error at the point of purchase. Thus, there is a slight margin of error to consider. Brands listed on this page are ranked in the top twenty within the market and product category by total retail sales volume.







