Salutations,
...do you have any idea what will happen to the Health Canada approved companies should marijuana become legal?
IMO, "legalized marijuana" under MiniPET means it's legal for Health-Canada approved producers/customers while remaining illegal for those who threaten to "contaminate" society's children - e.g. those who are meant to survive sustained exposure to violent TV, "toxic" parents, alcohol & tobacco abuse, gambling/cheating culture, junk-food consumption, money-addiction, etc., i suppose!...
I've believed (perhaps wrongly) that if legalization were to occur, that specific sales and regulations would be left up to each province/territory.
M'well, for all i know there's no record of Québec ever renouncing to a provincial responsability 1st officially proclaimed by law in 1885, relatively to "Indian Hemp" under the British Dominion regime of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. That duty was silently transfered in 1923 by the unilateral gesture of a federal senator in Ottawa who failed to provide any explanation as to his goal and purpose, though i gathered it may have had to do with the control of workers, possibly beyond their working hours as i vaguely recall.
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...I was thinking that these companies would go out of business since they exist selling country wide.
MiniPET should tell us clearly what happens of those monopolies after Liberal-style legalisation is performed. For all i can tell in both official languages he appears to avoid confrontation with anti-cannabic bigot prohibitionists and even sounds in harmony with them talking about the evil "risks" of "marijuana"!
I gotta admit that I feel confident about something good happening since the NDP would immediately decriminalize.
My interpretation of "decriminalization" by the NDP boils down to cutting support to the anti-cannabic prohibition machine, essentially. No more police, courts, judges, etc. Which would imply we will be able to grows our own "bio" cannabis again while the monopolies can focus on medical clients requiring THC-less/CBD-rich options and so on, whatever they require that would be considered wasteful in a recreative context.
According to Health Canada, they want to shut down dispensary that are selling weed to patient illegally because only Health Canada's weed is legal, DUH.
Quite a good point to make here today! And the question is, does MiniPET approve??
My gut feeling tells me he does, in the name of children... 8)
Good day, have fun!!