Canada's marijuana dispensaries ask liquor stores what they know about selling pot

Canada’s market for recreational cannabis is worth an estimated $4 to 7 billion annually, depending on who you ask.

That makes the question of who controls and profits from the industry one many people are watching closely.

Under the Conservative government, those billions of dollars went to organized crime. Now, Canada has elected a Liberal government that has pledged to legalize and regulate cannabis sales. But how that occurs has yet to be decided.

Potential winners include pharmacies, liquor stores, and the government itself. There is also the more grassroots collection of activists who fought for marijuana reform, many of whom have raced to transition into legitimate sales via dispensaries like those that dot so many streets around Vancouver.

Today (December 16), a group of those storefront businesses fired a pre-emptive shot at the liquor industry.

In a media release, the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries...

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