March 7, 2018
Some members of the cannabis industry on P.E.I. are concerned with the federal government's plan to charge an excise tax on medical marijuana.
The proposal to charge $1 per gram on products sold in Canada was released in the federal budget last week.
It includes an exemption for cannabis that contains lower than 0.3 per cent THC, the psychoactive compound in the drug.
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Tommy Biggar, a co-owner at Island ReLeaf Glass in Summerside, and a medical marijuana user himself, says the plan is disappointing.
"The thing that bothers me is, nobody else's medication is taxed. So medical patients are going to be taxed the same as recreational [users]."
