The cannabis industry contributed $76.5 billion to Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) and $23.1 billion to Ontario’s GDP between legalization in 2018 and 2024, according to a new report from the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) and Deloitte.

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    10 days ago

    The rest of the world is still asleep, allowing major criminal empires to profit instead of their own countries… all because someone one day decided to demonise cannabis and associate it with ‘reefer madness’

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      10 days ago

      *Because black and hispanic people smoked it first, you mean…

      Cannabis was first made illegal specifically as a means to target non-white people by making something illegal that caused no issues for anyone. “Reefer madness” was bullshit that came around way way later

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        10 days ago

        Sorry, I actually meant to allude to that first, so thanks for refining my point