@Captainsafety - Here's some of the reasons why I am doom and gloom with regard to legalization (as it currently stands) in Canada.
-The federal government has mandated that all weed comes from government approved licensed producers. That could change; a province or territory could regulate production, but that control would have to be given by the government
-Only 51 companies are licensed to cultivate, I think less than 1/2 of them are also licensed to sell
-Health Canada regularly releases statistics on how much is produced, sold and accumulated in inventory storage. Although increasing, the numbers aren't going up fast enough. Without using 'grey' market or small scale craft growers there won't be enough on day 1 to service 3 million plus legal consumers.
-Although the feds allow up to 30 grams per person, a province/territory could reduce this amount (to one gram if they were insane)
-Nothing specific about taxes yet.
-Nothing specific about purchase quantity limitations yet.
-Nothing specific about personal cultivation yet
-Nothing specific about THC % level limitation yet
-No word on whether interprovincial transfer of weed will be legal.
-Hours of access?
-Locations?
And so on. 9 months for the whole damn country and the people are running out of time to be able to legally influence the process.
Imagine walking into a weed store in Ontario and seeing nothing but a menu with prices and information
-you can't see the product before buying it
-you can't smell/handle a sample before buying it
I don't even know if product photo's will be available in store.
I wouldn't bet a burning farm on this (as it stands). Realistically, I'm hoping for private retail stores in BC, Alberta and Manitoba. Manitoba has repeatedly invited submissions for production, distribution and retail solutions - so I'd like to believe that we're going to get complete seed/clone to sales solutions from Colorado, Oregon or Washington. Those states are the locations members of Manitoba's previous provincial government visited to observe.
Oh yes and a 40 inch height limit if home cultivating.
Tom