Excise tax, store markups crushing cannabis industry, producer says

Excise Tax, Store Markups Crushing Cannabis Industry, Producer Says

Critics say legalization was supposed to counter illegal market, but became cash cow for governments On an icy, hard-to-find back road near Shediac sits a monument to what might have been, at least according to Jonathan Wilson: a massive cannabis production plant providing local product and local jobs. It never got there. Wilson is the CEO of Crystal Cure, a Japanese-owned cannabis company and one of many that sprang up in the wake of the . . .