Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana stores

Re:Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana st... by plantel on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:25PM (#15203645)

Toronto is currently full of dispensaries on every corner. Some are open late and you're always close to one, independent local businesses with people in the community making money and spending it locally.

It will be sad to see a government monopoly turn weed distribution into the LCBO style. Expect prices to go up to $15-20g, cut down the number of locations and closes at 9pm.

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Re:Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana st... by cortesoft on Friday September 08, 2017 @07:18PM (#15204657)

At some point we have to compromise - a lot of people want drugs like marijuana illegal because they DON'T want dispensaries on every corner, open at all hours of the night, selling cheap drugs.

Maybe a good starting compromise is, ok, marijuana will be legal and people won't get arrested anymmore, but it will only be sold at a limited number of places for a limited amount of time, for an amount that will keep it from being too prevalent.

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Re:Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana st... by ape4 on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:48PM (#15203815)

Police warn organized crime, including the Hells Angels, has infiltrated the medical marijuana market http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-warn-organized-c...

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Re:Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana st... by wolco on Friday September 08, 2017 @05:23PM (#15204072)

Sometimes they release this information to scare and control the population.

This is talking about the hell angels getting a medical supply and selling it on the black market. Not the same as running a store and none of this changes by having the lcbo run stores the supplier are licensed by government of Canada.

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Re:Ontario unveils plan for government chain of marijuana st... by antoniuschan99 on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:44PM (#15203790)

I think we all expected it to be like this since we have the LCBO

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