LCBO will run 150 standalone marijuana stores when weed is legalized
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Businesses want to increase profit. The tobacco industry cut back on tobacco advertising only when the law banned such advertising. Much of the gambling industry still advertises quite a bit today due to weaker advertising laws pertaining to casinos and lottery tickets, etc.
Why? You think I'm a pot addict worried that more advertising and easier access will tempt me? I have no addiction to pot' but I bet some pot addicts are probably worried about excessively loose advertising laws surrounding pot.
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My question now is that since the Government will be a major player in dealing pot, will, the penalty for selling someone pot be higher or will the law stay the same?
Say you sell someone pot in a quantity under an ounce. Will the penalty be the same in the future as it is now?
Say you sell someone pot in a quantity under an ounce. Will the penalty be the same in the future as it is now?
Chantal Hebert had some insightful comments about Ontario's plan for selling pot.
"It would take a lot more than 150 outlets and quite a bit longer than two years to flood the market with legal marijuana in a province the size of Ontario.
For the sake of comparison, Colorado, with a population of less than six million people, initially opened 136 venues for the purpose of legally selling marijuana.
Ontario, with more than double that population and a larger territory, is planning to offer little more than the same number. It is as if a cheese artisan set out to drive Kraft out of business by setting up a stall at the St. Lawrence market in Toronto."
"Unless they have been living on another planet, the provincial and federal politicians who are debating the upcoming legalization of marijuana must be familiar with the omnipresence and the reach of the underground market. And they must know that half-hearted measures tend to yield costly failures."
www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/08/pot-black-market-wider-and-deeper-than-governments-half-hearted-plans-hbert
"It would take a lot more than 150 outlets and quite a bit longer than two years to flood the market with legal marijuana in a province the size of Ontario.
For the sake of comparison, Colorado, with a population of less than six million people, initially opened 136 venues for the purpose of legally selling marijuana.
Ontario, with more than double that population and a larger territory, is planning to offer little more than the same number. It is as if a cheese artisan set out to drive Kraft out of business by setting up a stall at the St. Lawrence market in Toronto."
"Unless they have been living on another planet, the provincial and federal politicians who are debating the upcoming legalization of marijuana must be familiar with the omnipresence and the reach of the underground market. And they must know that half-hearted measures tend to yield costly failures."
www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/08/pot-black-market-wider-and-deeper-than-governments-half-hearted-plans-hbert
I'd say let the free market reign within certain strict parameters:
1. All businesses that sell marijuana must pay 1/3 of their net profit in taxes.
2. All of the same businesses will be allowed to advertise only online on website that specialize in advertising marijuana and that provide educational advertising about marijuana addiction too.
3. Those who break the law pay major fines.
Also, if you want to smoke your pot, keep it away from my nostrils. Maybe require pot to be smoked indoors on one's own private property or in an establishment that sells pot, maybe in a well-ventilated room, but not in public.
1. All businesses that sell marijuana must pay 1/3 of their net profit in taxes.
2. All of the same businesses will be allowed to advertise only online on website that specialize in advertising marijuana and that provide educational advertising about marijuana addiction too.
3. Those who break the law pay major fines.
Also, if you want to smoke your pot, keep it away from my nostrils. Maybe require pot to be smoked indoors on one's own private property or in an establishment that sells pot, maybe in a well-ventilated room, but not in public.
LCBO will run 150 standalone marijuana stores when weed is legalized
Premier Kathleen Wynne is cornering the recreational marijuana market by restricting sales to 150 LCBO-run stores.
The standalone cannabis outlets – physically separate from existing provincial-owned liquor stores – and a government-controlled website will be the only place weed can lawfully be sold after Ottawa legalizes it on July 1.
In a move that will close scores of illegal weed “dispensaries” that now dot Ontario cities, the LCBO will get its product from the medical marijuana producers licenced by Health Canada.
Only those 19 and older will be allowed to purchase or possess marijuana and pot consumption will be limited to private homes.
Smoking weed will continue to be illegal in any public space – including parks, workplaces and motorized vehicles.
Prices will kept competitive to curb the black market, but the government does expect a boost in tax revenues.
Finance Minister Charles Sousa, Health Minister Eric Hoskins, and Attorney General Yasir Naqvi unveiled the plan Friday at Queen’s Park after months of work from Ontario’s cannabis secretariat.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, which runs the province’s 651 liquor stores – using workers who are members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union – will oversee all retail sales and run the online service.
But the branding of the government’s new pot chain will not necessarily include the LCBO’s name.
“When it comes to retail distribution, the LCBO has the expertise, the experience, and the insight to ensure careful control of cannabis, helping us to discourage illicit market activity and see that illegal dispensaries are shut down,” said Sousa.
Naqvi said the government has “heard people across Ontario are anxious about the federal legalization of cannabis.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...-marijuana-stores-when-weed-is-legalized.html
So Big Pharma now owns the Ontario government. No surprise since they own the Federal liberals.
Anybody thinking this is going to stop the black market is taking too many prescription drugs.
There is no such thing as a pot adict.
How I feel about tobacco.
I have to wonder, what is going to happen with the revenue produced from these stores? If we dont create a tremendous amount of pressure on government to spend it in a specific way, then they will probably treat it as an ongoing windfall squandering it on feel good projects with little concern for maximizing its benefit to citizens throughout the entire province.