The plan would add an excise tax of $1 per gram or 10 per cent of the final retail price, whichever is higher, with the revenues to be divided equally between Ottawa and the provinces.
The odds of the Provinces going for this ‘deal’ is near to null, I think. They get all the costs, Ottawa gets half the profit + GST? Not likely.
“The market is currently controlled almost 100 per cent by criminals,” Blair said. “It’s an illicit market. Quite frankly, they don’t share a lot of data on the size of their market, so right now we’re operating on estimates.”
And now it will be in the hands of the biggest bunch of criminals in the Country,who have their own armies to enforce their corruption.I wonder if we’ll see midnight raids by SWAT teams to any competitors of the Government Gang,like happened to those farmers who dared to sell their wheat outside the CWB.
After a few years of “legalization”, dope smokers will wish they’d gotten decriminalization instead,and will pine for the days the Hell’s Angels produced most of the smoking dope in the Country.
Say,maybe CRA should investigate to see if the HA’s have any offshore accounts, might take the yokels minds off the current revelations.
the mafia would love such an arrangement. so would I.
Some drug dealer guy on TV said that sales of marijuana is something that only a government could f–k up.
Huh? Imagine that! The government milking the shit out of a new tax cow. What Vice will be next? How about a Porn Tax ? And why stop with dope. Let’s legalize meth … after all … only criminals are profiting on meth … Socks has got to get his cut! And heroin, and cocaine, and mushrooms, and OxyContin, and …
Why should criminals get 100% of the Drug Profits? Eh libs?
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perhaps self promoting pm me-me-me can set up a national network of home-visiting whores
for the abjectly lonely… they could be called “sophies”… in honour of, well… you know.
win-win.
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KEEP POT ILLEGAL!!! Do Canadians a favour. Do something right for a change.
Morons voted to have their drugs taxed by bigger dopes than they.
It is to laugh.
So when pot is legalized are all those in prison or with criminal records relate to
pot going to be released and have their record expunged? Seems only fair since we now live in a world where everything has to be ‘fair’.
Let’s legalize meth … And heroin, and cocaine, and mushrooms, and OxyContin, and …
You’re not far off the mark. CTV news Vancouver just interviewed a woman (possibly a SJW nurse) who heads up an ‘Overdose Prevention Unit’ and was bemoaning the deaths of roughly 1,000 Darwin acolytes.
The ‘safe injection’ sites weren’t enough. Nor are the now opening ‘safe snorting, injecting and ingesting’ sites or the ready availability of Narcan kits. Next step: supplying them with the “medication” of their choice to ensure the safety and purity of the “medication”.
BTW, in all my younger days of buying MJ, I never, ever paid anything close to $280/ounce. At least when its illegal there’s competition.
I predict this will just be another government farce that will end up being about as costly
and useless as the now defunct gun registry. Regular users will go back to their original suppliers for a better product at a lower price.
Private enterprise is always more efficient than government run enterprises.
People buying Marijuana that is less than 10 dollars a gram pay a higher percentage tax, helping the poor subsidize the wealthiest.
What a joke. These dupes are already counting their profits & divvying up the proceeds, before they’ve even sold a gram. Once it’s legal, they’ll put themselves out of business in a year.
It’s not about tax revenue:
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“Let’s legalize meth … And heroin, and cocaine, and mushrooms, and OxyContin, ”
Damn straight. Nothing else is really worth talking about.
“And now it will be in the hands of the biggest bunch of criminals in the Country, who have their own armies to enforce their corruption.”
As someone else once posted:
“The only difference between Liberal governments and the Mafia is that the Mafia takes less and is more honourable.”
My guess is the illegal trade will continue and will actually boom under this regime. It’d be pretty easy to undercut legit providers and customers can’t be punished / don’t care. Not really much risk here skirting the tax law I’d imagine.
Alberta announced their sales model today. There will be private stores to handle the sales and take all the risk while the government will handle lower margin on-line sales. I wonder if the on-line store will ship out of province.
“My guess is the illegal trade will continue and will actually boom under this regime. It’d be pretty easy to undercut legit providers and customers can’t be punished / don’t care. Not really much risk here skirting the tax law I’d imagine.”
Yep. My favourite line is the we-must-ensure-it-stays-out-of-the-hands-of-minors mantra – because as we all know, minors have no access to it now.
I love the whole pot legalization fiasco because I’m a complete spectator with no vested interest in it at all.
It’s like watching a train wreck about to happen from distance, knowing there’s nothing I can do to stop it. Only, unlike a train wreck, I couldn’t care less.
And after the government sanctioned shooting galleries are opened … then … the government will need to “teach” grade schoolers about how to “safely” inject drugs. Along with their 3rd grade instruction about which size condom to use on their test banana … they will be instructed how to safely inject the same banana with some colorful purple liquid.
We. are. swirling. the. drain.
Only fundamentalist Islam can save our children from this terrible fate. However, they will be married-off at age 8 …
I’m almost shocked the NDP didn’t go full Ontario and just serve it all up to PSUs.
“My favourite line is the we-must-ensure-it-stays-out-of-the-hands-of-minors mantra – because as we all know, minors have no access to it now. ”
That’s kinda the point.
Yeah, undue, that’s what the Fibs and ENDPee want, an entire population stoned and wired.
What could possibly go wrong?
This is like how the GOP wants everyone shooting each other right? Because gunz/drugz ‘r bad, mkay?
I see a great cottage industry developing
Me: “My favourite line is the we-must-ensure-it-stays-out-of-the-hands-of-minors mantra – because as we all know, minors have no access to it now. ”
You: “That’s kinda the point.”
It’s called sarcasm, my friend.
OK … then let’s TRY your “solution” to gun violence. Let’s run an experiment … in the city of Chicago ONLY. Let’s legalize ALL drugs in the city limits (and tax the shit out of em … cause that’s what Chicago Pol’s love to do). And then, let’s see if Chicago has less than 700 gun murders per year … by … uh … the “urban” youth. I have my prediction … but let’s just run the experiment … because you OBVIOUSLY don’t CARE about the “urban” youth and wish to facilitate their drug use. Go for it.
Because that’s what the American people do … every so often. We elect liberal politicians who TELL us they have all the solutions. In fact the last liberal president entered office like a hallowed icon who could tame the oceans and calm the climate. But after 8 years of leftist malaise … the American people learned, once again, that liberal leftists are all talk (and ignorant policies). So, let’s go through the same old exercise … and do exactly what you insist will tame the violence and calm the tensions. And remember … Chicago is ALREADY a Gun-Free City … so THAT part of your “solution” is already in-place.
Yes good we can finally try freedom.
” And remember … Chicago is ALREADY a Gun-Free City … so THAT part of your “solution” is already in-place. ”
WTF are you talking about?
Consider that the mulatto you are referring to had embraced his lazy negro side and that is why America got worse. Obama was a lazy loafer and not very bright. He had a great voice and as long as you fed him his lines, he could deliver them convincingly.
They have many black leaders in Africa too. And now you know why Africa is what it is. America needs a white supremacist or maybe even just an ordinary white guy with a brain who will be called a White Supremacist no matter what because well … he would be white and that means supremacist doesn’t’ it .. to run the show … White presidents did pretty well in the past. And the current White guy is doing a great job even with all the tides and winds against him. He is for the people. We don’t care about his skin color, (kinda orange) we like that he understands ordinary people and is doing good for us. Too bad the negros and a lot of leftist white idiots don’t’ get that.
See because of the eight years of Obama … we must all now speak about skin color in every political conversation. it’s quite boring and stupid.
Oh ya .. regarding the pot thing. Currently, pot retails for anywhere from 120 to 140 an OZ .. pronounced ‘Oh Zee’.
That is about $5 an OZ. why would anyone want to pay more than that?
As I see it the government figures on ripping us off at $280 and OZ and add $28 tax .. then there may very likely be GST and PST on top of that … bringing it up to a total of 313.60 for an OZ.
THIS WILL NOT STAND FOR LONG. AND THAT IS WHY THE MOM AND POP & HELL ANGELS GROW OPS WILL BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME.
Yes, selling pot is something only a government could screw up.
there is/was an online document listing a host of lieberals in line for economic gain for involvement in the growing & selling of the stuff.
to quote William Shatner, weird or what?