Cannabis Canada: 1 in 4 medical cannabis users claim supply harder to access since legalization

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Medical cannabis patients say recreational pot legalization has made it harder to obtain their medicine: Survey

Medical marijuana patients in Canada believe it’s getting harder to access their cannabis now that recreational pot is legal in the country. According to a recent survey jointly commissioned by Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana, the Arthritis Society and the Canadian Pharmacists Association, one in four medical cannabis users say supply issues are hindering their ability to access the medicine they need. As a result, 64 per cent of medical cannabis users are either under-dosing or stretching out their supply. One other key finding from the survey: just as many patients access their medical cannabis via mail order from a licensed producer (38 per cent) as they do via the illicit market (37 per cent).

Canada’s pot czar criticizes Ontario’s claims of undersupply in country’s pot market

Is Ontario making up excuses when it comes to capping the number of pot shops in the provinces? That’s what Bill Blair, Canada's minister of border security and organized crime reduction, is saying after Ontario blamed the federal government for lingering cannabis supply issues for limiting the number pot retail stores.

"The data is clear: there remains enough supply to meet and exceed combined retail sales. After months of blaming an inept approach on a non-existent supply shortage, the Ontario government finally issued a limited number of licences using a lottery scheme in April,” Blair said in a statement to the CBC News. Ontario announced it will issue up to 50 new private cannabis store licences on Wednesday.

Michigan to allow pot smoking lounges, home delivery under new rules

Michigan appears set to become another cannabis hot spot after the state’s officials allowed recreational marijuana smoking lounges, festivals and home delivery to operate under a set of emergency rules released on Wednesday. According to MLive, these rules will outline how Michigan’s new adult-use market will function, how the business licence application process will work and how the recreational and medical marijuana industries will interact with each other. The emergency rules expire in six months when the state Marijuana Regulatory Agency begins accepting business license applications.

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adding more shops wont help lol...all these ideas and made up excuses...no one is buying their shit poison shwags :lol:
 
VIANARCHRIS

VIANARCHRIS

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gb123 said:
Michigan to allow pot smoking lounges, home delivery under new rules
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Bring on the pot smoking lounges up here. As someone who doesn't drink, it might be fun to socialize in that setting with bud.
Pot tourism could be huge if governments would just pull that big stick out of their collective asses.
 
The Hippy

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VIANARCHRIS said:
Bring on the pot smoking lounges up here. As someone who doesn't drink, it might be fun to socialize in that setting with bud.
Pot tourism could be huge if governments would just pull that big stick out of their collective asses.
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I had a blast a few vapor lounges...wo was the refreshing to smoke in public like that.
Now it's been ruined by some smoking bylaw crap...might as well close imo.
 
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lol its funny shit

There's a compelling case to be made that ordinary Canadians have handled the historic legalization of cannabis far better than either the Ontario or federal governments.

Cheers to the people and a summer raspberry to the politicians.

Consider that in the nine months since the prohibition of recreational pot ended, drug-impaired driving did not spike as many feared, while Statistics Canada says the number of Canadians who reported buying black market cannabis plunged by 13 per cent.


And we've witnessed this even as the number of Canadians who reported trying cannabis nearly doubled — to 646,000 people in the first three months of 2019, up from 327,000 in the same period in 2018.

In sharp contrast, however, senior levels of government have not lived up to their part of the bargain to make legalization work smoothly.

Despite its denials, Ottawa has failed to ensure the supply of legal weed comes close to meeting consumer demand. As for the Ontario government, it's botched the roll-out of retail stores.

Both shortcomings explain why 38 per cent of Canadians who buy pot continue to turn to the still-thriving black market. And wasn't the eradication of that criminal market one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's main reasons for legalization in the first place?

To be fair, Queen's Park announced this week it will license 50 new cannabis retail stores starting in October, which will give people more legal options for buying pot. That's a step in the right direction.

And to cut both the Ontario and federal governments a little slack, the end of prohibition was a big, complicated, multi-faceted deal. Canada is a global pioneer in legalizing this drug nationwide. Whoever blazes a new trail is bound to stumble into a few holes.

But considering the federal Liberals won the 2015 general election with the promise to legalize pot, they should be criticized for the problems persisting nearly four years later.


The Liberals charged ahead with legalizing recreational cannabis last October knowing full well there would be insufficient amounts of the legal product. The supply problem has been linked, in part, to the tough regulations imposed by the federal department, Health Canada, on the 132 legal Canadian producers.

To be sure, it's essential that the safety of legal cannabis is beyond reproach. Even so, many producers are complaining Health Canada drags its feet in approving new licences. Hence the supply headaches that will likely continue for years. Hence the healthy black market that services underage teens while denying the federal and provincial governments tax revenue they're owed.

For their part, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are more than happy to blame the lack of supply for the paucity of legal retail outlets in the province. They argue they can't open the floodgates to consumers by hastily opening more retail outlets as long as the supply shortages continue.


Yes, that makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that some of the first 25 of the province's legal pot shops that were supposed to open on April 1 still aren't up and running.

Canadians are spending as much on recreational cannabis as they are on wine. However, while Ontarians can buy alcohol at 880 Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores of one kind or another, even if the province's expansion plans proceed consumers will have just 75 legal retail stores for cannabis at year's end.

The public deserves a reliable, accessible legal source for a drug the federal government says is perfectly legal. Satisfying that demand must be a greater priority for both Ford and Trudeau.




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Both shortcomings explain why 38 per cent of Canadians who buy pot continue to turn to the still-thriving black market. And wasn't the eradication of that criminal market one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's main reasons for legalization in the first place?"


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