With recreational cannabis now legal in Canada, the next big pot plays that could start emerging for investment banks and other lenders may not have anything to do with actually growing plants. Rather, those opportunities could involve more routine things, such as the packaging or shipping of cannabis.
Ratings agency DBRS Ltd. summed up this opportunity last week in a report on financial institutions and the burgeoning “distribution chain” for cannabis.
“New participants may include wholesale distributors, transportation companies, packaging and marketing companies, retail stores, cafes and cosmetics companies,” DBRS said. “Thus, there will be an increased need for financial services as the distribution chain expands.”
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