Conservatives launching billion-dollar free market in medical marijuana

[Azure]

The Conservative government is launching a $1.3-billion free market in medical marijuana this Tuesday, eventually providing an expected 450,000 Canadians with quality weed.

Health Canada is phasing out an older system on Monday that mostly relied on small-scale, homegrown medical marijuana of varying quality, often diverted illegally to the black market.

In its place, large indoor marijuana farms certified by the RCMP and health inspectors will produce, package and distribute a range of standardized weed, all of it sold for whatever price the market will bear. The first sales are expected in the next few weeks, delivered directly by secure courier.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle14590161/

[jayswin]

Oh great, the Walmart of grow ops is here to stomp out the little guy.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Oh great, the Walmart of grow ops is here to stomp out the little guy.

Who might that be?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Oh great, the Walmart of grow ops is here to stomp out the little guy.

You have a grow op in your basement?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Oh great, the Walmart of grow ops is here to stomp out the little guy.

Now now, people will pay higher prices to buy weed from "mom 'n' pop" grow ops because of the friendly service.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Who might that be?

I was just trying to make a little joke Transplant. That's all that was. It was an attempt at a little humour, not an opening for a Transplant beatdown over facts, just a simple joke. Nothing more, sir.

[TorqueDog]

Then the government grow-op they open in Quebec will attempt to unionize and they'll shut it down.

[CaptainCrunch]

Ow my glaucoma

[irrevocable]

It's about time. My father benefits greatly from reduced pain without having to take crazy pharmaceuticals.

[Devils'Advocate]

Didn't it all start out that way? There were very few approved growers that were being strictly monitored. A friend with MS said that he tried some from the approved growers and it was so incredibly weak as to be useless. He said he might as well have been smoking newspaper. So he had to go to growing his own.

[Reaper]

Personally, I think the fact that it will cost 4x per person vs. those that grow their own for medicinal purposes is complete garbage. I know someone who grows a very specific strain for himself (legally under the plan) because of how it affects him physiologically and he probably won't be able to get said strain from the new government approved megagrowers. So, on top of being poor his available medicine will probably be less effective.

[Raekwon]

Does anyone know if they have a career page? Surely they need quality control testers.