Canada stood in eighth position among the world’s largest marijuana producing nations.Cannabis in Canada is legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. Medicinal use of cannabis was legalized in Canada in July 2001. In 2018, Canada became the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to formally legalize the cultivation, possession, acquisition and consumption of cannabis and its by-products.Most provinces in Canada have online-sales and storefront operations selling cannabis. Canada is home to many of the largest cannabis companies in the world.