Wynne lands first strike on Dog Ford on Marijuana Distribution

[mentalfloss]

Weed next to candybars, Doug?

Shots have been fired.


Doug Ford’s comments on marijuana sales ‘reckless’: Wynne

Ontario’s premier is calling Doug Ford’s comments on marijuana sales “reckless” after the Tory leader suggested legalized pot be sold in places other than government-run stores.

Premier Kathleen Wynne says Ontarians don’t want “cannabis sold next to candy bars” in corner stores.

Ford, who was elected leader of the province’s Progressive Conservatives late Saturday, has told media outlets he’s open to greater privatization of marijuana sales, adding that the government should move slowly on the issue.

Wynne says her Liberal government did a lot of research before deciding on the plan to closely regulate the sale of cannabis once it’s legalized this year.

Ontario plans to roll out an initial wave of 40 government-run stores this summer, which are expected to grow in number to 150 by the end of 2020.

In January, the Ontario government inked a deal to use Shopify Inc.’s e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ales-reckless-wynne/?cmpid=rss&click=sf_globe

 

[Decapoda]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

Weed next to candybars, Doug?

Doug Ford’s comments on marijuana sales ‘reckless’: Wynne

Ontario’s premier is calling Doug Ford’s comments on marijuana sales “reckless” after the Tory leader suggested legalized pot be sold in places other than government-run stores.

Wynne has no business accusing anyone of reckless behavior. You want reckless...

Ontario premier's fiscal imprudence is reckless

 

[Curious Cdn]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

He's as big a wing-nut as Trump. This sort of comment and idea that weed should be everywhere is quite contrary to the philosophical foundations of the right wing element of the PC Party that just chose him as leader. Chaos. Already.

 

[Walter]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

Swing and a miss, strike one.

 

[petros]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

We're the people openly surveyed for their opinions?

 

[Twin_Moose]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

I don't see a problem with private licensed dispensaries, they will have more knowledge on product than some Union worker there for a paycheck

 

[Hoid]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

I agree with Doug on this one. Legalized weed should not be price controlled. He is on yo something here that will help his campaign.

 

[petros]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

I don't see a problem with private licensed dispensaries, they will have more knowledge on product than some Union worker there for a paycheck

At least we were asked in SK without the babysitter'S getting involved.

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/public-consultations/cannabis-legalization-and-regulation

 

[Twin_Moose]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

True democracy let the people decide

 

[Hoid]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

The Democratic part is legalizing it.

Now should come the capitalist part where a free market sets the price.

Instead we have a price controlled government run monopoly.

 

[mentalfloss]

Re: Wynne takes first strike at Dog Ford on Marijuana Sales

I agree with Doug on this one. Legalized weed should not be price controlled. He is on yo something here that will help his campaign.

You can sell it in a regulated environment without regulating the price.


He just hasn't thought that far.


Poor Dog.

 

[Hoid]

The Democratic part was legalizing it. The next part, especially for a conservative shod be the capitalist part where legalized weed is delivered via a free market

 

[White_Unifier]

Weed next to candybars, Doug?

Shots have been fired.


Doug Ford’s comments on marijuana sales ‘reckless’: Wynne

Ontario’s premier is calling Doug Ford’s comments on marijuana sales “reckless” after the Tory leader suggested legalized pot be sold in places other than government-run stores.

Premier Kathleen Wynne says Ontarians don’t want “cannabis sold next to candy bars” in corner stores.

Ford, who was elected leader of the province’s Progressive Conservatives late Saturday, has told media outlets he’s open to greater privatization of marijuana sales, adding that the government should move slowly on the issue.

Wynne says her Liberal government did a lot of research before deciding on the plan to closely regulate the sale of cannabis once it’s legalized this year.

Ontario plans to roll out an initial wave of 40 government-run stores this summer, which are expected to grow in number to 150 by the end of 2020.

In January, the Ontario government inked a deal to use Shopify Inc.’s e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ales-reckless-wynne/?cmpid=rss&click=sf_globe

Wynne seems to be confusing regulation with nationalization. Those are two different things. For example, a government-run marijuana shop could sell groceries too if the law allowed it. Inversely, a privately-run marijuana shop could be allowed to sell nothing but marijuana and could be prohibited from selling to any minor and from advertising except on a government-approved website for example.

We can even take the LCBO as an example. It's state-owned yet still advertises itself in open public. We can take Quebec's casinos too. I think they're privately-owned, but they sure do advertise themselves. Again, ownership and regulation are two very different things. On the one hand, I would have no problem with marijuana shops being privately owned. On the other, as far as I'm concerned, the laws surrounding the advertising of casinos, liquor shops, tobacco shops, vape shops, and lottery shops are way too lax in spite of the fact that many of these are state-owned. In other words, regulation and ownership truly are two separate unrelated matters. In fact, state-ownership can undermine advertising regulations since then the state feels the need to maintain the profitability of these venues. In other words, state-ownership creates a conflict of interest. If they are privately-owned, then the state couldn't care less if such a business goes bankrupt since the state doesn't own it. Then the state has no self-interest in relaxing advertising laws surrounding these products. Again, we need only look to the LCBO and the Ontario Lottery Corporation to show this.

I don't see a problem with private licensed dispensaries, they will have more knowledge on product than some Union worker there for a paycheck

Exactly. The state can even regulate its marketing more strictly when it has no self-interest in relaxing the rules.

 

[mentalfloss]

The Liberals are using a private entity for distribution.

But Dog didn't consider specific outlets for that so he left himself wide open to criticism


Time for Dog to put the pants on.

 

[White_Unifier]

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I agree with Doug on this one. Legalized weed should not be price controlled. He is on yo something here that will help his campaign.

I oppose price controls too, but I do support high business taxes on any business that sells it.

You can sell it in a regulated environment without regulating the price.


He just hasn't thought that far.


Poor Dog.

And regulation and nationalization are two separate things.

 

[Twin_Moose]

The Liberals are using a private entity for distribution.

But Dog didn't consider specific outlets for that so he left himself wide open to criticism


Time for Dog to put the pants on.

Key word here is A private entity

 

[mentalfloss]

Yes, so they are already putting it out on the open market.

 

[Hoid]

No you cannot call it an open market

To my understanding the goverment or governments buy all the weed

 

[Jinentonix]

I love the Wynned Bag's argument. "Ontarians don’t want cannabis sold next to candy bars”. Right, because that's also where stores display their cigarettes, on a rack between the gummy bears and the candy bars.
However, Ontarians seems to have such an alcoholism problem that we need to have beer sold next to fresh produce and dairy products in grocery stores.

 

[coldstream]

That's not a very propitious start for Doug Ford. I mean Kathleen Wynne is degenerate dyke but i expect more from Ford.

Marijuana will always be a powerful and anything but benign narcotic. Habitual use will lead to paranoia, depression, social isolation.. ultimately psychosis. Although 95% of people can responsibly use alcohol; it's likely almost nobody will be able to responsibly tolerate cannabis. It's a very internal psychotropic drug which will acerbate any underlying mental pathology.

There is NO real therapeutic value for canabis. All the industry has come up with is anecdotes and cynical promotion that has never been backed up with clinical double blind research limited to the active agent of THC.

Ford's comments seem to indicate he is a very conventional NeoConservative, with their mantra of the (non existent) 'Invisible Hand of the Free Market' as the cure-all for all economic, social and moral problems.. and government as the problem.

If this guy is one of the idiotic Reaganomic trickle downers its the last thing Ontario (or Canada) needs. It'll just add to the uninterrupted litany of mediocrities and incompetents of all major parties we've been led by for the last 30 years.