“It was a slow process on many levels,” Rod Elliot, a cannabis watcher and senior vice-president of Toronto consulting firm Global Public Affairs, told the Star. For Elliot, the most important aspect of this inaugural year of cannabis was the growing public acceptance of legal pot. There was no way producers could have grown and stockpiled enough cannabis during the lead-up to legalization to feed the market it created, he said. Is it going to be public, is it going to be private, how are we going to allocate the stores?’ ” Maurer said. “But the world did not fall apart, there is legal product, there are legal stores so, hey, that’s a good start.”

Source: The Star October 14, 2019 11:03 UTC