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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND OTHER FIGURES

Ahead of the roughly 30% of workers in the sector who’ve lost their jobs in the last year, more than a third of Canadian cannabis CEOs left their posts in 2019, according to a report by executive research firm Bedford.

Some Other Numbers:

Sales of cannabis products were up 5.5% for the first quarter of 2020, with Q1 2020 household expenditure on cannabis jumping to a record $7.26B from $6.88B last quarter.
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Legal cannabis (both REC and MED) contributed $2.3B to the total of Canada’s realized net farm income.
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  • Without cannabis, total farm cash receipts would have risen only 2.9% (about average). Instead, the totals increased 5.7% to $66.1B.
    Oak Bay News
  • Non-cannabis farmers, whose revenues are faltering, questioned the value of including cannabis among the category of “agriculture,” which usually refers only food or fibre.
    iPolitics