it's more than just recreational use.

pot smokers only want the buds. the truth is that these are the least useful parts of the plant, from an industrial perspective. harvesting the buds out will leave billions of tons of fiber that can be used for everything from clothing to biofuel to plastics.

i said this from the start: this isn't just a tax generator. it's an entire economic shift to sustainable production, by doing nothing more than using industrial waste. the number of profitable and sustainable spin-off industries is huge.

we can't shut down the tar sands tomorrow. i'd love to; sure. but, we can't. it'll kill our finances. the previous government spent the last ten years screwing up the economy, and making us utterly reliant upon it. but, we can rapidly diversify sustainable economies to the point that it's rendered superfluous, and then take it off life support and just let it die.

www.cbc.ca/news/business/marijuana-legalization-could-draw-u-s-investment-bonanza-to-canada-1.3288480