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October 17, 2019

A year after pot legalization in Canada, it's a slow roll

  • Legal sales in the first year are expected to total just $1 billion, an amount dwarfed by an illegal market still estimated at $5 billion to $7 billion.
    • By GENE JOHNSON, ELAINE THOMPSON and ROB GILLIES
    Associated Press

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The weed is expensive, the selection is limited, the black market persists, and licensed stores are scarce.

    It's one year into Canada's experiment in legal marijuana, and hundreds of legal pot shops have opened. While many residents remain proud of Canada for bucking prohibition, a lot still buy cannabis on the sly, because taxes and other issues mean high-quality bud can cost nearly twice what it did before legalization.


     
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