Here's something that made me laugh...

The Statement of Defence the gov't has submitted for the upcoming SC challenge regarding supply.

76 Health Canada has purchased a significant quantity of overstock marijuana from a private company, Prairie Plant Systems, as a reserve in case of a supply shortfall during the transition period. As of this date, it has not needed to be used.

So they've stocked up on a pile of crap that not many people wanted. I wonder how much that cost us?

Or... they bought up PPS' left-overs so that the company won't suffer any material loss due to the transition.

wonder how they convinced the government buyer that it was top shelf.....lol
and it would be interesting to see how much they actually paid....
I suppose that stuff will sit in those barrels until it turns back into dirt....(toxic dirt)

can we find out via the freedom of information act?

It would be interesting to see what they paid per gram.
I believe they said in the regs they will sell at the going market price set by the LPs.
So what kind of mark up will HC have?

I'm sure it won't hurt Canimeds cash flow...consider they have probably been growing at a substantial loss for a number of years....
and still managed to turn that swag into cash...
This will give them a starting nest egg to see if they can un-tarnish their reputation ,and somehow
get back into the market place...

leaffan said:

can we find out via the freedom of information act?

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I will see what I can find out and report back.

Kind of interesting that we haven't heard a peep from Cannimed. Maybe they're dying a slow painful death.

I just thought about this as well...why would they want to buy a shitload of crappy pot when one of the reasons for changing the program is to get out of the business of supplying marihuana? I mean it looks weird to say it's on the open market and let the chips fall, there won't be a shortage. I wonder if the this was a suggestion from the Americans they consulted?

WHATFG said:

Kind of interesting that we haven't heard a peep from Cannimed. Maybe they're dying a slow painful death.

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They're too busy setting up deals to sell vapourizers

WHATFG said:

I just thought about this as well...why would they want to buy a shitload of crappy pot when one of the reasons for changing the program is to get out of the business of supplying marihuana? I mean it looks weird to say it's on the open market and let the chips fall, there won't be a shortage. I wonder if the this was a suggestion from the Americans they consulted?

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More like a suggestion from their lawyers.
Bought strictly to try and ensure adequate supply and attempt to avoid cause for an MMAR extension

So it looks like that's what all the requests for info was about. I've read most of the affidavits and started on the defence. I won't read every single word of the supporting docs because I would be here until next year. I believe, according to their own stats, they are short on supply, based on previous years quantity prescribed.

There should be some way to prove that their swag is unsafe for consumption.....

cannadan said:

There should be some way to prove that their swag is unsafe for consumption.....

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It's been done before...

How they can irradiate as a form of pest control is sketchy. The effects to terpenoids from irradiation is well documented, their closeness and relations to cannabiniods make it so irradiation should not be allowed until proven safe.

Never mind what irradiation does to cannabis, it's not good at all, but the process itself causes unnatural radioactive byproducts that harm the environment.

Irradiating something does not make it radioactive. The only way to make something radioactive, that wasn't before, is to put it inside a nuclear reactor. You are irradiated when being x-rayed, doesn't make you radioactive. Your body is absorbing radiation (being irradiated) right now from natural and man made sources, just at a much lower energy level.

Yeah guess radioactive wasn't the right word, word i was looking for was radiolytic (I'm not a science nerd, my bad). Anyway the process of irradiation produces unique radiolytic products, basically toxins, some of them being identified as benzene and formaldehyde. These are not naturally occurring and some become unique to whatever product is being irradiated. The ingestion of this stuff has never been studied long term. I don't really want to find out either. Irradiation alters the molecular structure, destroying certain terpenes, thus destroying some of the therapeutic properties in cannabis and changing the taste.

I'm not trying to promote irradiating cannabis, or trying to say it doesn't alter terpenes but your already ingesting irradiated food

Food Irradiation - Food - Canadian Food Inspection Agency

See, then that would have been unknowingly and its never too late to stop eating irradiated foods either...
so thanks
for the heads up....
either way it is just plain wrong....considering we already have enough radiation exposure from the medical/dental fields and
other ways.....like microwave transmission and good old electromagnetic fields...and natural exposure...

but when its intention is to make something not spoil so quickly or to kill things that should not be there in the first place
then we can do with out it.