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Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:32 PM on Monday, March 9th, 2020

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Legal pot industry more than doubles contribution to Canada’s GDP since legalization: StatsCan

  • Canada’s cannabis industry represented $7.24 billion to the country’s gross domestic product in December
  • Illicit cannabis market’s contribution to Canada’s GDP has fallen by over 20 per cent

The country’s legal cannabis market represents $3.0 billion of economic output to Canada’s GDP, an increase of 138 per cent when recreational pot was legalized in Oct. 2018. Meanwhile, the illicit cannabis market’s contribution to Canada’s GDP has fallen by over 20 per cent to about $4.18 billion in that same time.

Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/cannabis-canada-pot-industry-added-nearly-7-24b-to-gdp-in-august-statscan-says-1.1397728

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