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by gillette 2802 days ago
Canada sells a _significant_ amount to the US for medical purposes and legal sales.
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buckminster 2802 days ago
Bizarrely, the UK is the world's largest legal exporter. (Canada is second.) The managing director of the exporter, British Sugar, is married to the government's drugs minister. It's very cosy.
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astrodust 2802 days ago
It also exports an extraordinary amount illegally, so there's that too.

For a while the #3 cash crop in BC, after fishing and logging, was weed. That can't all be for domestic consumption.

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refurb 2802 days ago
Source? I’m genuinely interested in the numbers.
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Harvey-Specter 2802 days ago
The Canadian government started publishing the production and export numbers for licences medical producers at the end of 2017 [0]. Looks like the total amount exported is a few hundred kilograms of dried canabis and a few dozen liters of cannabis oil per month.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...

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refurb 2802 days ago
That doesn’t seems like a huge amount to be honest.

It’s not unusual for marijuana busts in the US to be measured in tons.

I’d assume total US consumption is probably in the thousands of tons of marijuana?

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