Quebec proposed pot laws

You are not allowed to grow any? Makes this bill useless

My opinion..even if passed, you wont see this until 2019

And why is the SAQ running the show ? The dispensaries in the USA compete for your business..In Quebec, there is no competition ?
When I travel in the USA , I use Weedmaps to see where the dispensaries are located where I have my Airbnb

https://weedmaps.com/app

It clearly shows you what places are close, and what is " on special " each day.

Just like strip clubs or casinos, dispensaries want you to be loyal, and give them all your business..they do not want you to go down the street to spend your money

That's why there are so many " daily specials " at each location


There's doing it right , and doing it half assed

Quebec is half assed

Best Regards
Smuler

You can already grow a shitload of weed legally anyways. All you need is the licence...

I kind of feel like there is a lot of hypocrisy in this. The governments of many states and provinces are always looking for ways to increase tax revenue and marijuana now presents an opportunity to create a legalized monopoly in favor of the government. I don’t know if Quebec has antitrust laws like we do in the USA but at some point there should be legal challenges by marijuana growers who don’t wish to share the pie. Marijuana and prostitution are the Final frontiers for government to seek a cut of cash businessses in order to supplement tax revenues. The day will come when prostitution is legal everywhere or almost everywhere and the impetus will not be changing social morals or values, but governmental greed and desire to expand tax revenues. I feel the same ugly trend is at work here. And this is not to even discuss the tobacco tax in Quebec. Which I learned firsthand when I visited a Cigar Bar with some friends on my last trip. Cigars have become one expensive hobby in Quebec!!!! These so called “sin taxes” have no justification in anything other than the government can get away with it because people need to have it.

Sol Tee Nutz said:

That is about to change, the government wants to rake in as much as possible and will not allow anyone but their own approved growers where they will get a cut.
This legalization had nothing to do with taking it away from criminals, money, money, money.....for the governments.

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The government are the ones providing the licenses. I don't want to get into too many details but with some money everything is possible... It's not even hard to get the license as long as you have good contacts. They wont provide an unlimited amount of licenses of course but.. Well, let me and this post with "but".

EagerBeaver said:

Marijuana and prostitution are the Final frontiers for government to seek a cut of cash businessses in order to supplement tax revenues. The day will come when prostitution is legal everywhere or almost everywhere and the impetus will not be changing social morals or values, but governmental greed and desire to expand tax revenues.

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I do not see prostitution ever being legalized in the US. Religion is too embedded in their culture and government. There are far too many right-wing conservatives. They see tradition and theocracy above all else. Have you not noticed how businesses are so unregulated yet prostitution is illegal. Seems like a kind of a hypocrisy since prostitution is capitalism and is part of free markets.

Cloud 500 it's only like that in the Bible Belt. You are not an American and have not lived here. We are a big country and although there are swaths of the nation where religion is embedded in culture and government it is not true throughout the country.

Leave it to Cloud to bring up the "old evil right wing conservatives." :lol: There are plenty of liberals that are adamantly opposed to prostitution too.

We needed decriminalization not legalization.

Now that the government has put their legalese into it, we are definitely f**ked...

Negan said:

Gambling, Tobacco, Alcohol, now Marijuana, and soon perhaps, the Big Daddy, Prostitution. They are just trying to think of a way where they can rake in the cash from the sex trade. They will probably come out with a policy under the guise of "Public Safety".

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You can't really compare pot with sex work. Growing weed will be illegal whether you sell it or not. Sex between consenting adults is not controlled and requires no resources to produce. Sex is only ''problematic'' when exchanged for money which is much harder to control than drug production. Even in countries where it is legalized, a lot of sex work is simply done outside the legal system.

The easiest way is to set up a vending machine section in the SAQ. The purchase cards would be purchased in person at the cash register. That way there will be no complaints of getting a low count.

Maria Divina said:

The thing to not let people grow there own pot in peace, or without maybe a paying licence just show how "money" is an important target in that particular situation.

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In the case of pot I don't think money is the only issue. There are still a lot of voters afraid of pot and I think the government wants to put these people at ease. It's a newly legalized substance and they don't want to let everyone do whatever they want. Eventually, I guess they will probably allow to grow small amounts when pot becomes more normal.

smuler said:

There's doing it right , and doing it half assed
Quebec is half assed

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Like I said in November......:deadhorse:

Best Regards
Smuler

It is all about taxes, no grow at home is to stop people from being mini pot growers for profit.