Alberta budget 2018: Cannabis industry will lose $90 million first two years

Alberta’s fledgling cannabis industry isn’t expected to turn a profit for the provincial government in the two years following legalization while the province sets up sales and distribution.
The NDP’s budget, tabled Thursday, included the first peek at how much it will cost to bring bud to market.
Alberta projects a loss of $90 million over two years, but the bottom line will make it into the black in 2020-21. That’s when the province estimates it will pull in a net incom