In article <as9Uj.1914$ah4.374@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"ZBicyclist" <ZBicyclist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Today's fun fact:
>
> "British Columbia [marijuana] ex****t market alone was estimated at
> 1,433 metric tons worth $2 billion dollars in 2000, almost 3 per
> cent of the provincial GDP. That was nearly the size of the British
> Columbia mining and oil-and-gas sectors combined."
>
> http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben392.html#3
It will have increased considerably since 2000, possibly to $2 billion
to $3 billion. The numbers are not reliable. But both mining and oil and
gas have been booming in the same period, and are easily at $4 billion
to $5 billion or more.
I don't think there's any doubt, though, that B.C. Bud is the province's
single most valuable agricultural product. And as long as it remains
illegal, those billions of dollars are entirely in the hands of
organized crime.
--
bill
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