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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Luouth@lemmy.world 1 week 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’
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 week 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 for a nonexistent crime. “Reefer madness” was bullshit that came around way way later
Luouth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sorry, I actually meant to allude to that first, so thanks for refining my point