Toronto's Economic Development and Culture department says it has done no forecasting, no studies on marijuana tourism.
In Amsterdam the drug tourism industry pumps half a billion dollars a year into the economy.
Legal sales in Colorado rake in over a billion dollars.
Can we expect visitors here purely to get high and enjoy all the pot-themed businesses that'll come with legalization this Summer?
Yes we can.
"Everyone focuses on the cultivation and retail. But, you're going to see a lot of services pop up around this and a lot of other ancillary businesses pop up and a lot of interesting ones that will be coming out," describes Matt Maurer with Cannabis Law Group.
It helps that the province is considering relaxing some rules. "It's welcome news that it could be allowed in hotel rooms and that they're also considering consumption lounges where people can specifically go to consume without having to do it out in the public, on the street."
Maurer says we may see tour buses where people can consume and go on trips to cultivation sites, grow-ops, and glass blowing facilities.
Usually when people think about marijuana they think about British Columbia and its world-renowned weed. Maurer argues Toronto will have a leg up on our friends out West. "How accessible is the city of Toronto to the majority of the United States; whether it's Florida, whether it's New York, whether it's Ohio as opposed to BC which is all the way on the West Coast. It'll be accessible to West Coast states but most of the West Coast states have recreational legalized at a state level."