The former beer executive is one of many entrepreneurs and investors increasingly flocking to the cannabis industry from the traditional business world. Read more: Provinces split on plans for legal marijuana salesArticle Continued Below“This is one of the fastest-growing categories globally,” he said. Cannabis, he said, could shake up the large beer companies in the same manner that smaller, independent brewers did over the past 20 years. The idea is to build up the business before marijuana is one day legal under federal law. “It will all merge and cross-fertilize and fuse — not because the companies want it, but because the consumers want it,” Burggraeve said.

Source: thestar November 13, 2017 19:41 UTC