It doesn't matter about the regulations. We've already seen that the courts will side with those in medical need who grow their own medicine. What are they gonna do, lock up a bunch of sick people and fund their treatment in jail? Very generous of them, because no free person could possibly afford to pay the pharma companies themselves. Just screw the Govt. They've clearly shown that they're idiots so just fuck em. Ignore their self serving regs and stop supporting their corporate buddies like Canopy, who apparently managed to be valued at over a billion. Now why would that be? Do you know how much weed they'd have to sell to make that in profit? More than the Mexico and Colombia combined, that's how much.
Say they charged $10 a gram, they'd have to sell 100,000,000 grams if it was pure profit, which it's not so they'd have to sell probably at least twice that. There's only 30 million people in Canada and they aren't all sick or even rec users. Let's just say they might make a profit by 2050. If they were smart they'd just sell the company right now while its value is vastly inflated. They plan to make most of their money from exports, from what I can gather. So Canada expects to become a world source for weed. Do you think other nations are just going to stand by and let that happen? Canada ain't exactly a big player as nations go. The entire economy is based on exports and if they get sanctioned that could be a problem. Some companies may make money from weed but a bunch of other companies may very well pay for that profit out of their own. There would be no net gain for Canada, just those weed companies.