‘HIGH’-END CONFECTIONERY A ‘HIT’ IN THE US AND MAYBE SOON CANADA TOO

NORTH American confectioners are closely monitoring the growing wave in legalisation of marijuana across the USA and Canada, offering them the opportunity to sell new product, with a particularly edgy and certainly special ingredient. The new Liberal government in Canada, was elected in October on a promise to legalise marijuana, while in the US, the transition is happening state by state. Early experience in the states of Colorado and Washington, both of which have reported huge tax receipt increases following their legalisation of cannabis for both medicinal ...


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