What is Canada's most valuable agri product?

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Investors who rely for advice on Forbes, the highly regarded American business magazine, will be tipped off this month about the industry that is now outpacing many others in North America: marijuana growing.

The magazine's cover story focuses on "the unstoppable economics of a booming business" and claims marijuana is now Canada's most valuable agricultural product, ahead of wheat, cattle and timber.

 

Marijuana is also a growth industry in terms of jobs, with people earning $15 an hour for trimming the dried flowers and consultants earning $40 an hour to help inexperienced growers get started

 

Note: original article appears in Forbes

 

Here in the US, if State governments promote casino gambling to fill state tax coffers, why not consider other alternatives if examined in a rational manner? Or for that matter, why not allow certain individuals to sell medical marijuana to those who need it? Regulate it and bring it into the revenue stream.