Ontario's pot plan will not discourage the street sale of unsafe weed, critics warn

gb123

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Our Government is allowing the poisoning of its people for profit and are criminalizing them to gain their way of control ,,,but its not working for them 8) LMAOROTFF

its to bad they have lost before they started ..eh poofinger! ;)

@WHATFG
Business owners say they're planning ahead despite the province's crackdown on illegal dispensaries

Protesters took to the lawns of Queen's Park Saturday to highlight issues with what they're calling the province's "marijuana monopoly."

"It's unfair that the government that has persecuted us will charge high prices, tax us too high and control our industries," Mark Emery, Toronto's so-called "prince of pot" told CBC Toronto.

Emery, who says he has been arrested 30 times on cannabis-related charges, argues that the government is "taking the industry away from people who have cultivated it for 50 years."

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Canada's 'prince of pot' says the government plan to legalize marijuana steals the industry from people who have cultivated it for half a century. (CBC)

The province announced its framework to manage the sale and use of marijuana in early September. The plan includes an online ordering service and roughly 150 stand-alone stores.

The government also declared their intent to crack down on illegal pot shops in Ontario.

"If you operate one of these facilities, consider yourself on notice," Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said at a Sept. 6 press conference.

But critics at the protest, including MPP Jack MacLaren, says the plan to open government-run stores next summer while cracking down on dispensaries undercuts the entire point of legalization.

Without competition, government-run cannabis stores will have no incentive to keep prices low and thus will not be able to discourage the street sale of low quality, unregulated products that are unsafe, the Carleton-Mississippi Mills representative said in an interview.

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Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack Maclaren says legalizing and regulating small businesses is the best way to eliminate the street sale of unsafe weed. (CBC)

"It's just a matter of how do we deliver to the consumer at a low price so that we are competitive with the street people." MacLaren said.

He argues that licensing and regulating small businesses will be the best way to ensure safe, low-priced, high-quality weed in the province.

MacLaren says he's not opposed to the government being in the marketplace. Rather, he is just against shutting out small business competition entirely.

Independent cannabis businesses however say they are forging ahead despite the warnings.

"We're preparing as if we were a regulated business because essentially we are, just not in a regulated framework," Clinton Young, CEO of MMJ Canada said.












now whats that again the fools are trying to say?

cheers fool ears!(:
 
The way its shaping up people are gonna be paying about $70-$80 per quarter ounce. Good job guys.........
They are trying to save us from " unsafe " product. Why don't start with their own. How many Lp's have been caught using banned stuff and approved pesticide? They should clean up their own house first.
I will NEVER buy or use government weed. I am not going to suck off the people who were content to jail me before I pay up. Go to hell trudy maggot dancer. Your gonna see the hate we have for you yet you little rich prick.
 
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