In the last three months, the NLC Drug Enforcement Unit has been moving at full speed, seizing over 240 lbs of dried cannabis and over 4,500 packages of other products ranging from edibles to oils and seeds.
The NLC, along with the RNC and RCMP held a show and tell of the bulk of what they have seized since the legalization of cannabis.
That’s quite the haul.@VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/naIoqNeieD
— Ben Murphy VOCM (@BenMurphyVOCM) August 29, 2019
There was everything from cannabis flower and extracts to cash, phones, laptops and tablets—and that’s only what officials chose to show.
There are also illegal and unregistered weapons—something Finance Minister Tom Osborne says people are funding by buying off the illicit market.
Osborne says in the first nine months since legalization, there has been about $30-million in sales through legal retailers.
He says public safety is one of their biggest concerns with buying off the illicit market. Osborne says you have no idea what the growing conditions are, or what it may be sprayed with to help it grow.
The Finance Minister says if you look at the prohibition of alcohol back in the 1930s, we still see contraband alcohol, although very little.
He says with $30-million in sales in a population of half-a-million in the first nine months, it shows they’re seeing success in the legal market, but that won’t make the illicit market disappear overnight.
