Conservatives launch $1.3B medical marijuana free market in Canada

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Source: Canadian Press

The Conservative government is launching a $1.3-billion free market in medical marijuana on Tuesday, eventually providing an expected 450,000 Canadians with quality weed.

Health Canada is phasing out an older system on Monday that mostly relied on small-scale, homegrown medical marijuana of varying quality, often diverted illegally to the black market.

In its place, large indoor marijuana farms certified by the RCMP and health inspectors will produce, package and distribute a range of standardized weed, all of it sold for whatever price the market will bear. The first sales are expected in the next few weeks, delivered directly by secure courier.

... Revenues for the burgeoning new industry are expected to hit $1.3 billion a year by 2024, according to federal projections. And operators would be favourably positioned were marijuana ever legalized for recreational use, as it has been in two American states.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/1-3b-medical-marijuana-free-market-coming-to-canada-1.1872652

[truedelphi]

1. Yet another reason to consider the move north.

The family business could come with us.

And no more worries about the insanity here in Calif.

Our local County Supervisors are making it harder and harder for the "little people" to grow their own. While they grow entire plots of the stuff. (And deny doing so!)

Every four to seven minutes, another Californian is arrested for pot possession.

[bahrbearian]

2. Ha Ha Washington is legalizing outdoor grows.

[Berlum]

3. Industrial Dope, Inc. (R - Great White North Style)

What could possibly go wrong?

[Quantess]

4. K & R