Kanesatake entrepreneur sets sights on Indigenous cannabis empire

If Blake Freeman wanted a showdown with Canada’s cannabis giants, he’d be badly outgunned.
As it stands, the legal cannabis industry is dominated by four companies whose combined market cap floats somewhere around $15 billion.
They wield enough lobbyists to shape federal policy. Their shares trade daily on the Toronto Stock Exchange alongside stocks for General Motors, Suncor Energy and other staples of the Canadian economy.
The largest among them, Canopy Growth, has a federal licenc