Gary Mason might want to review the excellent report on cannabis pricing tabled recently by the Parliamentary Budget Office.  The PBO gives no-nonsense recommendations on cannabis pricing and taxation and shows clearly that prices need initially to be low to effectively undermine current black market pricing.  

The Task Force and Canadian industries have read and studied this report.  Nobody with knowledge expects legalization to suddenly be a panacea, or a massive taxation money machine.  Not in the beginning.

But, there will be benefits.  The development and expansion of a whole new industry will accommodate hundreds of thousands of Canadians by providing new opportunities, both directly and through expansion to related industries.  

Gary needs to attend a major cannabis expo in the USA.  Despite growing pains with legalization, he would be pleasantly amazed, maybe even shocked, at the depth and breadth of the cannabis industry in just a few short years of State legalization.