Canada’s biggest crop offsets tourism losses

November 5, 2003
Source: Forbes
Original story - link verified on November 5, 2003

Cultivation of cannabis has emerged as Canada's most valuable agricultural product, bigger than wheat, cattle or timber. With prices reaching $2,700 a pound wholesale, the trade takes in at least $4 billion each year, and perhaps much more. “Of the money coming through my door, 15% to 20% comes from cannabis — we'd be on welfare without it," says a small retailer in Grand Forks.

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