Drug dealers still control 33% of Canada's cannabis market despite legalization

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“One of the main goals of legalization of cannabis was to reduce criminal activity by keeping profits out of the pockets of criminals,” the department wrote in an October 17 briefing note Cannabis Black Market.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

“One has to be careful not to move above the illegal price,” Mostafa Askari, then-assistant budget officer, told reporters at the time. “As soon you move above the illegal market price, based on our estimates, you lose a lot of market share to the illegal market so that defeats the purpose.”

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Drug dealers still control 33 per cent of Canada's cannabis market despite legalizationFive years after Ottawa legalized marijuana, 33% of the market is still controlled by drug dealers, says the Department of Public Safety. The government is very lucky it controls that much of the market, with their 'leadership'...
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Drug dealers still control 33% of Canada's cannabis market despite legalizationFive years after Ottawa legalized marijuana, 33% of the market is still controlled by drug dealers, says the Department of Public Safety. Time to lower store prices. People are gonna shop where they get the best value for the money. I could go clean out the local liquor store of 1000s of dollars of liquor, enough to kill myself many times over, but more than 30 grams of pot? Nope, illegal for whatever stupid reason. Amounts over 30gs is where black market holds its power still.
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