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What markets? Canada can only sell to itself. California has a larger population than Canada does.

Canada could be a leader in the global cannabis market — if the rules loosen up: experts

"“We’re currently shipping cannabis to several of these countries already. We’re already taking advantage of this opportunity,” he explained, citing Europe as a current client for several major Canadian marijuana growers."

https://globalnews.ca/news/4426312/canada-global-cannabis-ma...

Canada sells a _significant_ amount to the US for medical purposes and legal sales.

Bizarrely, the UK is the world's largest legal exporter. (Canada is second.) The managing director of the exporter, British Sugar, is married to the government's drugs minister. It's very cosy.

It also exports an extraordinary amount illegally, so there's that too.

For a while the #3 cash crop in BC, after fishing and logging, was weed. That can't all be for domestic consumption.

Source? I’m genuinely interested in the numbers.

The Canadian government started publishing the production and export numbers for licences medical producers at the end of 2017 [0]. Looks like the total amount exported is a few hundred kilograms of dried canabis and a few dozen liters of cannabis oil per month.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...

That doesn’t seems like a huge amount to be honest.

It’s not unusual for marijuana busts in the US to be measured in tons.

I’d assume total US consumption is probably in the thousands of tons of marijuana?

39 million vs. 36 million. Not a big enough difference to matter.

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