Thread: Cannabis

Interesting that in Ontario, you can smoke a joint in a a public place in which you can smoke tobacco, but you can’t have a beer there.

I think it’s going to take a while for the kinks in the legislation to get ironed out and make it all rational. I wonder if anybody is looking at the historical track of the repeal of prohibition of alcohol to anticipate what will come next.

I'm sure they must have taken stats from when Colorado made it legal. Not sure how it all went down there, but I would think they should be able to get a pretty decent idea by watching them.

DZEC, have you ordered any??

BTW, here is our Ontario website for ordering Cannabis if anyone would like to check it out.

https://ocs.ca/#/verify-age

Things are going to get real interesting.
I have to laugh at the Police force not having a handle on this. They've had like 2 years to get a roadside test ready and I think they were hoping that it would just go away and now the poor buggers just don't know what they are going to do.
When I heard the first murmerings of legalization I said leave it to the government and they'll f@#$ it up. Realistically, I believe they should have kept their hands off of it and just let sales taxes take care of the real basis of legalization, REVENUE.
just my not so humble opinion of course

Originally Posted by Mcbladescar

Things are going to get real interesting.
I have to laugh at the Police force not having a handle on this. They've had like 2 years to get a roadside test ready and I think they were hoping that it would just go away and now the poor buggers just don't know what they are going to do.
When I heard the first murmerings of legalization I said leave it to the government and they'll f@#$ it up. Realistically, I believe they should have kept their hands off of it and just let sales taxes take care of the real basis of legalization, REVENUE.
just my not so humble opinion of course

In April, Ford is switching it to privitisation. Things will change again and we will be able to buy it from store fronts.

Our Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wines and spirits in the world. That means they get the best prices from vendors. LCBO outlets are already in every community in the province.

We consumers don’t really get to take advantage of the LCBO’s buying power because of the taxes the government attaches to the purchase price. They make our prices higher than almost everywhere else - just like with gasoline at the pump. In fact, the LCBO is one of the few creatures of the Ontario government that actually makes money and it would have made sense for the LCBO to have become the government vendor of cannabis products.

So, the LCBO is all over the province, already knows how to sell controlled substances and makes money for the province. I guess those facts are the reason the current Conservative government wants to sell it off instead of making it the government controlled vendor of cannabis.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

In April, Ford is switching it to privitisation. Things will change again and we will be able to buy it from store fronts.

Now that is a high one all things considered.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ticle12153014/

I guess under the circumstances he would prefer privatisation.

Bob

Some good advice for Canadians crossing the US border:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/b...-border-patrol

Kinda figured this would fit in here

A disclaimer - I’m not a cannabis user nor have I ever been.

It seems that the moment you make something illegal, you increase its desirability to some segment of the population and provide a market criminals are able to exploit.

I have trouble understanding the morality in which governments can provide and profit from providing access to some addictive materials (alcohol, tobacco and gambling are the best examples) while deciding that other “vices” are somehow against God’s dictates.

If someone intends harm to him/herself or chooses to indulge to excess, there is little one can do to prevent that and banning the instrument of that harm has never proven effective. We can only hope to provide support, intervention and counselling to those individuals in the hope that they are able to find their own way back and try our best to prevent them from causing harm to others.

In those jurisdictions in which cannabis is legal, the taxes collected have made significant contributions to the improvement of school systems and public health care infrastructure while eliminating a source of income to criminals. Seems to me that is a win-win situation.