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Some illegal producers could possibly go legit but if the LCBO thinks they can charge double the current price for weed, they will simply fuel the black market. Just like they've done by taxing cigarettes.
LCBO well suited to sell marijuana when legal, Kathleen Wynne says
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Like with booze, they'll take 30 years and, in the end, they'll fuck it up. And after they legalize it, they will slap so many taxes and regulations on the weed, I will still keep buying it from the "guy". Who has a wide selection, competitive prices and delivers. Plus, when the mood is right, I can grab some coke or smack, shrooms or acid, too. Wynn and her responsible six pack scheme can kiss my ass.
One other thing to remember. When it comes to "competition", do you really think the status quo will last? The OPP will commence a major crackdown. They are after all stealing tax dollars.
That's why I said the reserves we make out well. It's the only no go place for the OPP.
Your neighbourhood dealer is going to find supply lines drying up between legitimizing and busts. Prices will rise to reflect that. It will take time. But it will happen.
Sure there will be a underground. But the above ground will win. It did with booze. Cigarettes they way over taxed because they know how hooked smokers are. Pot less so. It won't be over taxed initially. It will build.
She is salivating over this, don't think she will let the dealers take the money she wants. And Justin is beholden to a pot grower who was also his campaign manager. Don't doubt they have a piece of the action.
With the authorities as their legit enforcers.
That's why I said the reserves we make out well. It's the only no go place for the OPP.
Your neighbourhood dealer is going to find supply lines drying up between legitimizing and busts. Prices will rise to reflect that. It will take time. But it will happen.
Sure there will be a underground. But the above ground will win. It did with booze. Cigarettes they way over taxed because they know how hooked smokers are. Pot less so. It won't be over taxed initially. It will build.
She is salivating over this, don't think she will let the dealers take the money she wants. And Justin is beholden to a pot grower who was also his campaign manager. Don't doubt they have a piece of the action.
With the authorities as their legit enforcers.
Depending on how the legislation is drafted, wouldn't it be nice if it could open a door for importation, too...
If so, Jamaican Sensi and Thai sticks could figure in to the equation... I know, it's a fantasy, a dream, but why not dream if you are able?
Perry
If so, Jamaican Sensi and Thai sticks could figure in to the equation... I know, it's a fantasy, a dream, but why not dream if you are able?
Perry
I'm sure it will. They get to charge tax on it. It's exotic. And reduces the options for illegal importers.
Just like with wine, scotch etc.
This is just the beginning of the Federal Government's way of controlling, monopolizing and hand picking their personal buddies to grow as LPs. The only thing they are regulating is the tax you will pay and who makes the money. They're the new dealers on the streets now just in competition with the underground of which will be even bigger. As I am a medical marijuana patient it's made me quite disturbed and feel screwed by the Liberals! Current dispensary prices are 7 to 11 dollars per gram. LP prices are $14 and up per gram and you have to buy a certain amount (only mail order) so you can't see what you're buying before you receive your meds. I'm assuming these LPs will be supplying the LCBO...and their prices will be in and around 20 to 30 dollars and up per gram. Do you see that as legalization? It should be free enterprise like the apples in a grocery store, as the guy who brews his own beer and is able to sell it and the guy who makes his own wine. Alcohol and tobacco serve 3 purposes 1. Recreational use only (no medicinal purposes) 2. To tax the shit out of your addiction and 3. To make you sick and die...so you can feed the pharmaceutical system. After over 30 years testing marijuana has many many medicinal uses I could list a book full...which is why we are allowed to vape in public...Bc there is zero effect on your lungs going in and zero health hazard for second hand smoke. #staylifted
Using the other vices the government controls prices and taxes on as examples. Beer, wine, spirits, cigarettes. I doubt I'll be too far off the mark.
I don't drink. Is there a viabe black market for alcohol where I can get it for half price?
Every time I hear her say "social responsibility" I think "fiscal responsibility" and want to smack her in the face....
Perhaps not in the same sense that you meant it, but I can see the likelihood of a market developing for very high quality MJ... just like Cuvée Champagnes and the +18 year old Single Malts.
Since the profits could be huge -- as they are for Dom Perignon and Glenmorangie, for example -- and research and development can be carried out openly and legally in state-of-the-art facilities, there would be plenty of people willing to invest in it.
The rich will create and drive the market... just like they drive their Ferraris and Maybachs... and the rest of us will bitch about the prices and still buy it! :hail:
Perry
So I just looked on my G+M app. There are two articles. One making the argument for the LCBO to distribute.
And one about the dangers of pot use for teens.
With both mentioning about proper distribution being important.
Also mentioned was how strong it is now and alluding to control of THC levels to make it safer.
Just like I predicted the tamed writers are already at it ready with reinforcing articles on the heels of the anouncements.
And one about the dangers of pot use for teens.
With both mentioning about proper distribution being important.
Also mentioned was how strong it is now and alluding to control of THC levels to make it safer.
Just like I predicted the tamed writers are already at it ready with reinforcing articles on the heels of the anouncements.
What a half hour of research on you tube will give you all your medicinal answers. How about the dangers of alcohol and tobacco on us all not just teens...whose parents now a days are buying the booze for them to serve at their teen's house parties. Canada thinks they have to reinvent the wheel or something. Amsterdam has had cannabis available for 30 years...laws there are any cafe that serves cannabis cannot serve booze and vice versa. Now here the government wants to sell both in same location. Is that not detrimental? There is nothing worse than the mind altering state that alcohol induces! This "regulate from teens" is an excuse to monopolize and control the money and you nor I will ever see a penny of the cash cow this will be. And mark my words, if the LCBO is the only place of distribution then expect crime and the underworld to rise.
First of all, there is a big difference between a sit-down establishment selling booze and pot, and the LCBO. You walk into the LCBO, buy your stuff, and walk out to consume elsewhere (usually at home).
Secondly, cafes in Amsterdam CAN serve pot and booze... the majority of them do not though, maybe because they know it is a bad combination.
I have been to many cafes in Amsterdam... most will not sell booze if they are selling pot, but some of the shadier ones will.
It was the union who first came out demanding their staff at the LBCO be the only ones to sell pot, so basically get ready for the unions to demand huge raises for their members at contract time as they will cite the extra profits from pot sales that is going into government coffers. I don't smoke but I do occasionally drink and I take advantage of cheaper booze prices across the border and duty free. I never buy anything at the LCBO or the Beer Store.
It kinda varied.
You had your craft cafes where you bought the stuff in baggies and rolled it yourself. Lots of varieties, etc... I honestly can't remember how much the pot cost at these places
Then you had your tourist-focused cafes, like The Bulldog (and there was nothing wrong with them, don't get me wrong), but they focused on tourists and volume... pre-rolled stuff, nicely packaged, etc... very convenient.
One joint was probably the equivalent of $3 CAD or so. Like I said, nicely rolled, packaged, and ready to go.
