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Pick up a hard copy of today’s National Post or one of our Postmedia broadsheets like The Ottawa Citizen or Vancouver Sun and you’ll find

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s once the Trudeau government legalizes marijuana.





It’s going to be a big business: One Bay Street economist figures pot retailers will sell $10-billion a year worth of cannabis products. I’ve seen estimates that the Canadian market could grow to $20-billion a year. To put that in perspective,

. So this cannabis market could be bigger than beer!

So where are we going to buy these cannabis products? Right now, the only legal way to acquire cannabis products is by mail from a licensed producer. Purchasers need a prescription. But there’s a booming market — grey at best, black at worst — of what are called pot dispensaries, storefront operations where you can walk in and — so long as you’ve got an easily acquired prescription — buy what you need. I’ll introduce you to some of these independent pot retailers in my piece today.