Justin Trudeau says marijuana should be legalized

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

The smoke doesn’t stick to anything. If you smell it, you’re smelling fresh product. It’s not like cigarette smoke.

Not really true. If you just ripped a doobie doesn’t matter if you were in the widest open space, you’re going wreak. After a while your clothes won’t stink but the joint smell will stick to your hands.

[Raekwon]

Public consultation on cannabis


The City of Airdrie can determine:

• retail locations and operating rules
• rules around public consumption
• and land use/zoning bylaws

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Coach

Not really true. If you just ripped a doobie doesn’t matter if you were in the widest open space, you’re going wreak. After a while your clothes won’t stink but the joint smell will stick to your hands.

That last part is very accurate and a pain. But you could walk 60 paces and your clothes don’t smell anymore. Or use any other method where you aren’t using a joint.

Ps: edibles and smoking aren’t even remotely similar, and shouldn’t be compared. Demanding only that in public is like saying: I’ll allow people to drink in public, but not sipping a beer. You are only allowed to do 5oz shots of grain alcohol.

[Tacopuck]

I'm just going to continue to smoke cannabis in Calgary's public spaces. I've never had an issue, cant imagine it changing.

I think the public ban is stupid, although I am all for rental units / multi family dwelling bans if they should so choose as its private property

[troutman]

We can smell our shinny goalie from a block away when he arrives at the Arena.

[Tron_fdc]

Pro tip: baby wipes.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

Pro tip: baby wipes.

Is that wall all the kids these days are rolling their joints with?

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Is that wall all the kids these days are rolling their joints with?

lol no, that's what is making fatbergs.

But if they can clean a poopy baby's arse, they can surely clean off the smell of weed. Especially the scented ones.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

lol no, that's what is making fatbergs.

But if they can clean a poopy baby's arse, they can surely clean off the smell of weed. Especially the scented ones.

For anyone not interested in carrying baby wipes around with them hand sanitizer does the trick as well

[CliffFletcher]

Looks like I'm not the only one who thinks Terry will be in a business for quite a while yet.

The red flags ahead of Canada’s marijuana legalization

...Unless the government is operating under the quixotic assumption that minors will simply stop consuming the drug, their access to it will still largely come from the illegal sources that they are presently using to procure it. Sure, the fact that their older brothers and sisters (and perhaps even their parents) may have access to legal pot may mean that some of them will be able to access the drug by raiding family members’ stashes. But by and large, the people most at risk will still be dealing with suppliers operating in the illegal market.

A related concern is the fact that the government has decided to limit the supply of legal marijuana to a small number of big, licensed providers, rather than inviting erstwhile illegal providers into the market subject to rigorous controls. This means that there will still be quite a bit of illegal marijuana out there, and those peddling the illegal product will be more than happy to continue supplying our kids...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...-legalization/

[GGG]

I think they make a poor assumption that going after Terry is relaunching a disaterous war on drugs. It was always going to take criminal enforcement to remove the Terry's.

[Poster]

If Terry is not only going to sell weed to our kids but also the damaging stuff like Molly, meth and otherwise than I hope with our freed up police resources, we bring the hammer down on him.

Secondly, if you buy your weed from Terry knowing he is feeding meth and drugs to our kids just so you can save a few bucks, shame on you and I hope you also get busted hard.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Poster

If Terry is not only going to sell weed to our kids but also the damaging stuff like Molly, meth and otherwise than I hope with our freed up police resources, we bring the hammer down on him.

Secondly, if you buy your weed from Terry knowing he is feeding meth and drugs to our kids just so you can save a few bucks, shame on you and I hope you also get busted hard.

Believe it or not, most weed dealers leave it at that and are not a one stop drug smorgasbord that you think they are.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

As we all know the illegal alcohol bootlegging industry has been kept in business for years by minors.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

As we all know the illegal alcohol bootlegging industry has been kept in business for years by minors.

There actually is a bit of a moonshine industry operating under the radar in the remote rural prairies. That operates mainly on access and lower prices than above board hooch. I imagine that black market cannabis will still be a thing in those places too.

[transplant99]

Remember when some were saying that "Terry" would be put out to pasture with the legalization of weed and I along with others said they were out to lunch on that idea?

By the end of 2020, the legal cannabis industry is expected to surpass US$15 billion. But the money that weed generates on the illicit market far exceeds that amount.

Tracking exact figures is tricky because anonymous dealers and criminal networks aren’t exactly sharing sales data with the media. But estimates approximate the illicit market is more than four times the size of its legal market.

More specifically, New Frontier Data values the U.S. illicit Per Statistics Canada, less than 30 per cent of Canadian cannabis users acquire their goods exclusively from licensed retailers.

All this after a huge uptick for legal users to to the pandemic turning to their local stores.

It was pure folly to believe behaviour would change in great numbers to pay way more for something that is available for cheaper under the guise of being legitimate.

Obviously there is still room for both sides to make oodles of money, but with what the government started out charging, they just hurt themselves and emboldened the black market.

https://www.thegrowthop.com/cannabis...aign=tgo_promo

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Remember when some were saying that "Terry" would be put out to pasture with the legalization of weed and I along with others said they were out to lunch on that idea?




All this after a huge uptick for legal users to to the pandemic turning to their local stores.

It was pure folly to believe behaviour would change in great numbers to pay way more for something that is available for cheaper under the guise of being legitimate.

Obviously there is still room for both sides to make oodles of money, but with what the government started out charging, they just hurt themselves and emboldened the black market.

https://www.thegrowthop.com/cannabis...aign=tgo_promo

I would interested to know the breakdown by region. Policies and Cannabis delivery have been far from unilateral. Alberta for example has dozens if not hundreds of more stores than other provinces.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

I would interested to know the breakdown by region. Policies and Cannabis delivery have been far from unilateral. Alberta for example has dozens if not hundreds of more stores than other provinces.

I suppose that lack of availability of legal weed in some areas could be part of that equation, but not so much as to see the balance that far off?

When I read that article i was stunned. I figured it would be at least 60-70% the other way.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by transplant99

I suppose that lack of availability of legal weed in some areas could be part of that equation, but not so much as to see the balance that far off?

When I read that article i was stunned. I figured it would be at least 60-70% the other way.

These are 2019 summer numbers from stats can but to put it in perspective

Ab has 176 stores
On - 24
Qc - 18
BC- 57
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/...g.htm#tbl03n_2


Sure price is a sticking point, but the black/gray market will drop your grass off at your door step.

[FlamesAddiction]

The illegal market was never going to disappear overnight. I don't think legislators expected that. It's legal to grow a few plants, so there will always be some people selling on the black market. There is pretty much a "black market" for any good or service. Have you ever had a mechanic do work on your car under the table? Congrats, because you used the "black market".