Montreal
"
Cannabis
draws crowds across the country"
, headlined the daily
L'Acadie nouvelle
on October 18, 2018 to celebrate the legalization of marijuana. The second country in the world to legalize recreational cannabis, Canada had two goals: to control the billions of dollars in the black market and to create a thriving industry around the drug. The first objective is success. According to the Statistics Canada institute, 68% of consumers of "pot", as Quebecers call marijuana, bought it legally in 2020.
"Surveys generally overestimate the legal part and underestimate the illegal part"
, relativizes Michael Armstrong, professor at Brock University in St Catharines (Ontario), while stressing that
“there is a clear trend towards more legal and less illegal spending”
.
"The small illegal dealers were the most affected,"
says psychologist Serge Brochu, professor at the School of Criminology at the University of Montreal.
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