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Investors will benefit from Molson Coors’s plan to transform its business in the face of weaker demand for beer from baby boomers and millennials. Central to that strategy is a joint venture focused on producing cannabis-infused drinks. Despite Molson’s recent writedown of that cannabis investment, the new products are set to drive sales and let the company continue to raise your dividend. MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. is a buy. The stock (Toronto symbols TPX.A $75 and TPX.B $75; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Consumer sector; Shares o/s: 216.4 million; Market cap: $16.2 billion; P.S. ratio: 1.2; Divd. yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) exposes you to the world’s fifth-largest brewer. Its top brands include Coors and Molson Canadian. The company recently formed a joint venture with Canadian cannabis producer HEXO Corp. (Toronto symbol HEXO). Molson owns 57.5% of that venture (called Truss) now readying to launch cannabis-infused non-alcoholic beverages across Canada. As part of the deal, Molson acquired warrants to buy HEXO shares at $6.00 (Canadian) a share. However,…