Then there’s personal income tax, corporate tax, store property taxes, workers’ compensation and more. The apparent contradiction between criminal law and tax law is the latest pot hole on the road to marijuana legalization. OTTAWA — Illegal pot sales are turning into a high earner for governments. Don Briere’s national chain of renegade retail shops remitted $688,449 in GST/HST collected from December to May on exploding sales of unlicensed marijuana, hashish and cannabis-laced edibles to relieve aches and pains. Medical marijuana is legal in Canada but only for patients with a doctor’s prescription who purchase it from one of 33 growers licensed by Health Canada.

Source: National Post July 12, 2016 23:21 UTC