Here's your chance to be exploited
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VIANARCHRIS
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Here's the thing. We all know the 40 LP's cannot supply the quality or quantity of cannabis needed to satisfy the Canadian market, but we are also aware we mmj/bm grow some of the best cannabis in the world. Mclellan and the rest of them know it too. If this (legalization) has a hope in hell of being successful they NEED to open up the market to small entrepreneurs.
CannaReview
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A good start would also be dedicated store fronts specializing in weed only as with the current set up it gives people with lobbying money to only try to get sales from their own store fronts, ie in BC private liquor stores.
GroErr
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Refreshing, haven't many of us been saying this all along? Yet the proposed program has locked everyone except big pharma-style LP's out.
Would love to do something in the industry part time through retirement (independently, not as some LP slave) but unless the federal legislation is modified significantly, it's a no go, even if a province wants to do it. As it stands if the feds don't allow it, licensing for commercial grows is federally controlled in the new act.
Would love to do something in the industry part time through retirement (independently, not as some LP slave) but unless the federal legislation is modified significantly, it's a no go, even if a province wants to do it. As it stands if the feds don't allow it, licensing for commercial grows is federally controlled in the new act.
VIANARCHRIS
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It's a no-brainer for BC. Vancouver, Victoria and several other cities already license dispensaries and many more exist in nearly every community. They need to take that model province-wide for retail.
The BC government needs to encourage and promote BC small businesses and entrepreneurs by lobbying Ottawa for the right to license ma & pa growers.Alcohol producers are strictly provincial jurisdiction and so should be cannabis. Why not have a provincial cooperative where growers are licensed and sell their product to the 'co-op' where it is distributed to the retail outlets (dispensaries) much like booze is? Government would have control over testing for pesticides etc. before distribution and a proven method of taxation.
I'm not a business lawyer, but I think someone could make a solid case that federal control over who is permitted to participate in the industry violates some sort of fair practices or some shit.
Growdict
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individual US states have done it in the face of federal prohibition. At this point, the provinces should be taking the bull by the horns and legalizing it on their terms, as the proposed federal regulations leave a lot to the provinces anyways. So far, not a lot of policy platform out of any of the BC parties considering election is May 9th
cannadan
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why not create an industry and jobs that did not exist before.???...rather than giving the work to a union/Liquor control board... that already employs
a work force, they do not need the extra work to justify their jobs....plenty of people already support the system we already know as BIG ALCOHOL ,
the government should try at least to be "forward thinking"....
a work force, they do not need the extra work to justify their jobs....plenty of people already support the system we already know as BIG ALCOHOL ,
the government should try at least to be "forward thinking"....
CannaReview
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They don't think, just like no one EVER asks about the 100's of millions of tax and spendable cash that would disappear from local economies once illegal growers can't make money.