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Marc just wants to be a legitimate business owner.

For more than a decade, he’s worked in the illegal cannabis industry.

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Now, with the legalization of cannabis looming, Marc, who spoke to the Montreal Gazette on the condition that he not be identified, wants to become part of the new legal market.

But that won’t be an option.

The only legal seller of recreational cannabis in Quebec will be a government-owned monopoly that plans to source cannabis from a handful of big growers already operating within the legal medical cannabis system.

Marc is a drug dealer: Customers contact him and he delivers cannabis. He won’t say much about his business. He remains fearful of police enforcement — and even though the products he sells could soon be legal to possess, his business will remain illegal under the proposed legislation.

While Marc would like to be part of the legal market, the government hopes to drive people like him out of the business by competing with them directly.