The majority of drug offenses (~55,000 of ~95,000) in Canada for 2016 were cannabis related. There must be hundreds of thousands of people living in Canada with criminal records due to marijuana prohibition. One would expect they'd wipe all of the records clean, recent or distant past.
Making something legal now doesn't mean you didn't commit a crime before. They may wipe records clean but there is no guarantee.
And I suppose most of the records are not just the result of simple consumption. It probably involved trafficking or maybe DUI, which will continue being illegal.
I'm hoping more Canadians become stoners and push wages up for people with clean urine
how exactly would having more stoners up the wages?
Smaller hiring pool leading to higher wages for the sober drones is the implied hypothesis here if I am reading it right.
As a Seattle-area resident who's a few years ahead of our neighbors to the north, I can tell that you're likely to be disappointed. If for no other reason than the places that drug-test typically pay less to begin with.