Canada's new marijuana laws must attend to business: Don Pittis

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As rural youth have known for more than a generation, growing pot, even in the Canadian climate, is not so difficult. A sunny patch between young pines, a bit of fertilizer and seed and then go away till autumn.

The constraint on pot production has never been agricultural.  

Marijuana laws have been in place for so long that there will be political pressure to make sure any changes put health and safety first as Canada leads the way on pot regulation. But as governments across the country consider how to liberalize the rules on the distribution and use of cannabis, they are also laying the ground rules for a multibillion-dollar industry.

There are two ways for Canadian governments to benefit from legal pot. Finance ministers may have been salivating over new tax revenue. But having a strong and functioning industry, and even a major export sector, may provide greater opportunities for the economy.

The previous government's 2014 licensing rules on medical...

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