Canadian Pot Stocks Rally on Trudeau's Dollar-a-Gram Tax
- Finance department introduces tax proposal for legal weed
- Total revenue could reach C$1 billion a year, Blair says
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Canadian marijuana stocks surged Friday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government proposed a tax of one dollar a gram of legalized recreational marijuana.
The government said Friday the tax shouldn’t exceed C$1 (79 U.S. cents) a gram or 10 percent of the producer’s price, whichever is higher. Retail sales levies would be applied on top of that.