Canada's legal weed is a positive movement for the world. Of course there are issues to be considered but overall it looks like solid plan. Personally, I really like Colorado's legal model where regulation is used only where necessary so it keeps the cost to the consumer down while maintaining a healthy product. Hey w01fg4ng! I really dig with everything you say, but for completely different reasons... I?m a Canadian UNLICENSED grower. Always was, always will be. The Canadian Government?s scam of ?legalized? marijuana is using and will continue to use our tax dollars against us. First off, I need to point out that a lot of you think Canada has already legalized and this is incorrect. It was supposed to be legal on July 1 and now that was postponed until just before election day, Oct 17. Our PM?s strategy is to make legalization a behavioural reinforcement reward tool for people voting for him to legalize the first time into compelling then to vote for him a second time. My guess is that it will be postponed again however. Since Canada has always been tolerant to marijuana, and has really only gone after large scale growers and sellers, another postponement won?t matter much. Police in Vancouver (?Vansterdam?) have turned a blind eye to consumption of MJ in public as well as illegally selling MJ in dispensaries for over 30 years now! This was because the BC government was and is smart and has realized many years ago that even illegal production and sales has pumped billions of dollars back into the economy which benefits us all living in BC. Trudeau?s plan is make prohibition laws even stronger after ?legalization? by INCREASING the penalties for growing and selling large scale without a license from an automatic 10 year prison sentence to an instant 15 year sentence! The reason they delayed on July 1st was so they could buy more time to close up all the loop-holes in their Criminal Legislation. They?re still going to go after anyone growing over 4 plants personally and all the black market pot dealers and growers like me with a vengeance to prove that, ?crime doesn?t pay?. But if marijuana was truly legal, it wouldn?t be a ?crime? at all to grow and sell, and be as free as growing carrots! In California, Colorado and other US states that have been completely legal now for a few years, it has dropped MJ prices into the toilet by creating a glut of weed. But that?s only for growers. In legal dispensaries its still around the same price for customers because most of the money they pay is to taxes! That?s exactly what the Canadian government has planned! I?ve always ignored government and will continue to grow illegally because governments are just greedy ?business men? and worse than the Hells Angels! And what do they plan to do with the billions of new tax dollars from partially legalizing instead of building new roads, hospitals, schools and infrastructure? They plan to HIDE it into ?addiction? education and prevention. So in effect, they?re telling the world that while they?re tolerant of licensed of growers and sellers who ?play by the rules? they still consider MJ a harmful drug and continue the subliminal ?Refer Madness? the American govt started 100 years ago! And all the MJ we?ll be able to buy at licensed dispensaries will continue to be poisoned with the Canadian government?s encouragement to licensed growers to avoid growing organically and grow instead using chemical pesticides and fertilizer, so that government medical marijuana will be a poisonous joke added to a financial one! I?ve grown from an illegal hobby grower to an illegal commercial grower because my customers love my product because it is all organic and truly medicinally safe to use. Licensed dispensaries are my customers now because they know my weed is pure even though they also know I?m ?Black Market?! Even my auto-trimmers are medicinally safe. I use Tom?s Tumble Trimmers because they don? t use blades to massacre my Buds and strip the valuable trichomes and resins off but preserves them with mesh tumblers that aren?t just coated a non-stick chemical, but are made of solid food/medicinal grade patented material. Because I?ve become well-know for producing medicinally pure truly healthy marijuana, my biggest customers are extraction companies who buy my trim and Buds by the TON to make pure medicinally safe cannabis oils. Colorado is the only state in the US that has truly legalized marijuana?its new MJ tax dollars going back into helping the people of Colorado, and if Canada wanted to really legalize marijuana they would adopt the Colorado model ?which still ain?t perfect, but its a whole hell of lot safer, non-prohibition-style and friendly to cannabis users than our Canadian government?s model of continued persecution will ever be.
