In the heart of Montreal’s trendy neighborhoods PlateauMont-Royal and Outremont, the smell of marijuana is no longer uncommon. The Canadian state legalized it in 2018 for better control. The Canadian National Institute of Statistics assures us. In Quebec, 68% of cannabis consumers, “pot,” purchased it legally in 2022. Much to the chagrin of traffickers, who have been virtually eliminated from the market in favor of thousands of marijuana shops.
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“Municipalities like Mississauga (718,000 inhabitants) and Richmond Hill, Ontario still prohibit the legal sale of marijuana; these places remain strongholds of trafficking.”, laments economist Michael Armstrong, professor at Brock University (Ontario). Without forgetting “illegal sites that send cannabis by mail” adds Brad Poulos, professor of entrepreneurship at Ryerson University in Toronto.
The Quebec government prefers to sell its “pot” in official stores…
Source: Le Figaro

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