51 Replies to “Just Legalize Pot, They Said.”

  2. All the ex police and ex politicians involved in the pump-and-dump have taken their profits. The sheep are now getting shorn.

    Street prices are way down and quality is way up. Children have absolutely no access to the black market.

    Another stunning success for the Trudeau Liberals. Take a bow, Pierrette. Ask your mom.

    1. I know some elderly boomer sharpies who went all in on pot, made out like bandits… and then went all out. (They were up to their elbows in the stock markets before they retired and now only dabble in such things as a hobby and beer money). The fella I knew made enough money when he sold out to do the roof on his 2200 sq. ft. hovel with the three car garage. If we are going to have to have these degenerates in our society… somebody might as well make a buck off them…

  4. I kept asking just how many are going to buy weed from the government at the same or higher price than their friendly dealer sells it for or now that it’s legal, can grow themselves? It was better the old way where, for the average person, it was basically legal unless you were a total idiot.

  5. Oh…you mean the genius liberals effed up again?

    They couldn’t run anything but a scam.

    Trud foundation has enriched itself to the tune of 3/4 billion dollars so far?

    So clearly, crime pays dividends.

    1. It was made legal by the Feds but I believe each province is responsible for screwing it up on their own.

      1. Health Canada is the federal government department responsible for much of the screw-ups, the red-tape, and the constantly changing regulations. The provinces have mostly only screwed up the retailing and wholesaling side of things. Just google some combination of “stickers” and “pot packaging regulations” to read the mind-numbing stupidity of bureaucracy in action.

  6. I used to work with a prog who’s son was a bit of a perennial loser who lived in Colorado. We got together for lunch last year and she was telling me how she was going to give her son a bunch of $ so he could start a pot growing business. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she might as well flush her money down the toilet given his track record and the likelihood there were probably thousands of other just like him with the same likely ill-fated get-rich-quick dreams.

  7. We need to use this as an example of how useless the government is. The high costs and red tape are prime examples of why these things don’t work. It should have been left to the private sector, and I suppose it kind of is through the black market. They are making it cheaper, better and its just as accessible as it was before legalization.

    The question is, how do we convince people that if the government can’t get marijuana right, why do we trust them in other fields, such as health care?

    1. They didn’t want to be in the business the government just wanted to create a system where buy they got a cut of the action.
      Government and organized crime all share a commonality that they compel others to dirty their hands and pay for the privilege.
      Taxes, protection payments, or the selling of indulgence. It’s all the same, just a different organization taking it’s cut.

    2. The only winners in this pile of idiocy:
      Initial investors
      UNIONS for those who work in Unionized Marijuana dispenseries. And I fully believe that EACH and EVERY one of those stores are being subsidized by the General Public out of General Revenue.

      And those of us that use from time to time.

      Theres not a hope in hell of any one of them turning a profit with Union employees at $37.50/hr (+ benefits), attempting to sell 1/8 of an ounce bags of Indica – Sativa for $55.00. That goes for any dispencery selling at similar price points. Laughable….when its avail via online stores for double the amount and half the price. And ya can always grow yer own…

      Typical Liberal Fcuk up….Designed for votes – and to enrich their insider friends…nothing else. A lot like the Ontario Energy Plan. I’m betting that scumbag Butts was front & central in this.

      1. The only winners in this pile of idiocy:
        Initial investors

        Like with any “sure thing” investment I hear of, by the time I get wind of it, the easy money’s already been made.

        Another thing I also learned is to never try and out-smart the market. The best investments I made were those that I bought and kept an eye on for the long term.

      2. Probably not Butts…

        … but… Chuck Rifici, former CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada, and founder and former CEO of Tweed Marijuana Inc. His stock rose 24% the day after the Liberals won the 2015 federal election.

  8. There is a shop in my town that sells every kind of MJ paraphernalia imaginable, from growing requirements to equipment – ALL except the refined product. When I asked the proprietor why he didn’t just make his business a “one-stop-shop”, he said he can’t sell the weed that the government produces It isn’t that he can’t get the required licensing he says, but that he just cannot abide selling the absolute garbage weed that the government would compel him to.

    Gee, who would have thought that from wheat to weed, the government ruins anything that it touches.

  9. Saw this article and stopped to consider the following.

    The media is not in the business of information they are in the business of influencing opinion.
    So with that in mind ask to whose benefit is there to promulgating the idea (true or not) that the pot business is in for a correction this year?
    Not that it wasn’t going to happen anyways, but who would want to throw gas on the fire and cause an over reaction to the market (specifically public trading of the shares)?
    Who benefits from that?
    FYI I have no axe to grind in this just interested in the who not the why.

  10. Here are all the cannabis numbers to chew on:
    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-610-x/cannabis-eng.htm

    Pot prices have steadily declined over the last 5 years. However, at $4500/kg for the producer, there’s lots of incentive to grow one’s own and a bit to spare. This will squeeze legal and legacy suppliers. The latter are innovating and diversifying so I’m not expecting a decrease in violent crime.

  11. The government should never be involved in delivering anything (with exceptions *) that can be provided by the private sector including education and healthcare.
    Judges should be elected for 6 years once at all levels.
    Any judge “reading in” law that is not there should be dismissed. Judges do not create law.
    Politicians and bureaucrats should have term limits. Outlaw public sector unions outright. They are globalist Marxists who use their positions to advance their cause not their countries.
    This climate change scam would go nowhere except for the thousands on public sector union employees colluding around the world to shape polities not in the interests of their employers, the taxpayers of their countries.
    * exceptions:
    Wide ranging investigations need to be done without regard to cost on an infrequent basis, like Royal Commissions, air traffic accident investigations, long term systemic audits of criminal activity, these types of services may be better provided by government with the private sector providing most of the labor.

    Take our country back.
    That is where my vote is going.

    1. I buy all of that…
      Particularly the Abolitiion of Public Service Unions.
      The Absolute ROOT of ALL Leftist EVIL (incl. Anti Semitism), world wide. And a huge financial burden on the Taxpayer.

      And something I DEFINITELY want to see in an independant West.

  12. as I said in the past, the government, provincial, managed to lose money on casinos. the feds are equally as incompetent and lose money on everything. unless you are paying for government policy you will lose money on that policy. Winners who pay for government policy like Lavalin, Bombardier, etc, get serious free government money from taxpayers like Mc Donald’s workers and the few private industry workers who are left to pay taxes. By the way, government employees do not pay taxes, they just don’t get the full amount the government has promised them from tax revenues. Government workers do not produce a profit that can be taxed, they just take tax revenue.

    1. Oh boy try telling a government worker that they don’t pay tax. Haha I have. Their faces get all screwed up and its super funny how angry they get.
      I’ve also read in comments sections where they brag about how much they contribute to their pensions. They should get a patent for their delusion.

      1. Buddy, their pensions are paid for by the debt that the government has created to pay their pensions. My wife has been part of DND all her life and she agrees with me. She is a smart woman.

  13. Your friendly neighbourhood pot shops throughout the land may be Justin’s dream but it’s obvious it’s not going to fly.

    Who is the Minister of Pot anyway?

  14. As expected.
    The Liberal insiders made out like the bandits they are,pure insider trading.
    The Dummies who bought these stocks got hosed.
    The Dope Smoker faces more potential criminal convictions than prior to “legalization”.
    The ordinary citizen lost more freedom and had more “rights” abridged..
    The new impaired driving laws.
    Government “approved” smoke is hedgeclippings.
    So alround a perfect Liberal success.

  15. The edibles may help the bottom line a bit and slightly help lower the chance I’m going to smell some skunk weed whenever I walk my dawg or drive more than a mile.

  16. Decriminalization was all that was needed. I believe the Harper government was headed in that direction.

  17. I can just see some Vancouver organic pot growing, burned out hippie adding up his sales in his black book that is normally hidden under the back seat of of a 1975 VW van equipped with a Westphalia camper kit.

    ”Let’s see now, 5 + 5 is 12, less expenses that I forgot to enter last night. Jesus help me, I,m losing money here!!”

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    And to think that some Ontario tomato growers moved their operations to the States to make room for pot houses. Now they’re closer to Heinz (that also moved to the states) so they could market their tomatoes. Vote Liberal!!

  18. The real reason that pot was legalized was not the potential tax revenue. Anyone with half a brain would know that the illegal pot industry will not be undersold. Anyone knows it.

    No. The real reason was to make Justine and his mother Margaret feel better. They both are/have been potheads and now they don’t have to feel guilty about breaking Canadian law.

  19. There is always a problem when a moron gets other morons to vote the moron “main moron”. Like I have told people from the start of this morons drive to make more morons, most of these huge growing operations will be closed or growing tomatos in 3 years, here is the start. The moron was told by like minded that a “wasted on pot” electorate would be easy to govern, well the mere fact that anyone put pencil to X a liberal into office should have been enough for government to see, “Canadians” don’t need pot to be stupid.

  21. The government pretends to be “neutral” on sin … but is actually in-LOVE !! with sin taxes. The Govt. LOVES you sinners. Hell … The Canadian Govt. even completely seized all sales of alcohol! … and now marijuana. The Govt. wants you to sin-sin-sin!!! Drink up, Johnny! Get your smoke on, Johnny!

    I expect that “legalizing” pot made most people feel comfortable growing it in their backyards (I know my brother in law does). I expect all the marijuana entrepreneurs overestimated the “legal” marketplace demand … and the ridiculous over-supply. I expect that the vast MAJORITY of numbskulls who voted to make marijuana legal … are not pot smokers, but are simply libertarian in their attitude toward drugs. Taking the number of “YES on marijuana” voters as the pot “market” … was a big mistake.

  22. Sask government had a questionnaire. It was about where the stores should be in relation to schools .enforcement issues and who should do the selling. I replied let the street criminals do the selling because they don’t need a herd of bureaucrats to do it and they won’t lose money.

  23. As a business man would you enter a market? Where all the demand is being met by present suppliers. The potential to expand the market is very limited. The competition can beat you on price and service because of government regulations. The product you have is inferior to the competition. BTW the consumption numbers provided by the government came from the government and the government has no idea how big the market actually is/was.

    My honest opinion from dealing with a few of these companies it seems their biggest clients are their employees.

    1. It was assumed by Liberal stooges and pot advocates, that a huge surge in new users would occur, because dope was made legal.
      They were horribly wrong about this and almost every other aspect of legalization.

      Yes, I knew a couple of others who made a nice little profit, after betting $100 in penny stocks that turned into $25k. One sold and made out good, the other got greedy, and saw their gains cut in half before getting religion.

      The easy money is GONE. the “illegal” weed market is alive and well, TruDOPE never had any intention of cracking down on anyone in the pot industry, legal or illegal. Clearly!

  24. sooooo how long b4 the TURDoo 2.0 shells out billions to prop up the pot bizznizz?
    (hint, see: TURDoo 2.0 GIVES 600 MILLION to failing print media)

  25. I think the next push will be to train/harass/sue employers be less pot phobic.
    If employers wouldn’t make you pee, pot use(rs) could go sky high.

  26. What formwiz said at 6:34 a.m.

    However, you can pretty well rest assured that the big players – turdo’s Ivory Tower Trash friends – will survive to create a virtual monopoly on the legal dope market.

  27. The Liberals could have asked Milton Friedman for some advice, or not…

    “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand”

    or the sand wouldn’t be worth anything, depending.

    In the above link, in the Vancouver Sun comments for those of you that don’t normally read through the links, there’s a comparison between the legal price, and the price available on the reserve, where you can also pick up some discount gasoline, maybe some groceries as well.

    about a 4:1 premium for gov’t pot. Not including the discount gasoline, groceries…

    *Does gasoline sold on reserves, have a carbon tax on it? just asking…

  30. The Fort St. John area was been given a double whammy when both the oil and forestry industries got clobbered, thanks to Red Rachel, Prinz Dummkopf, and Horganweaver. The only thing that’s keeping the place going is the Site C dam.

    When I was there a few weeks ago, I noticed that several dope shops were either open or in the process of getting established. My thought about that is how foolishly optimistic those people are. There’s not a whole lot of money left in that town.

    1. It’s always been a somewhat transient population there, going back to the 70s, boom and bust has been the FSJ way. I arrived there in 83, in a bust cycle, and, found others there, same age group, all from the mainland, all just wanting to “do our time and experience” and get back south. The mid-80s were a hard time finding work in BC, anywhere, the coast was still busted over the real estate bust, and the north busted their oil/gas, at the time. The cycle continues to this day, with Leftwing governments at the helm. Things that make you go HMMMMMM.
      There seems to be a goal with both the fed Libs and the BC GREENDP, to destroy resource industries. The effect is crippling on small town BC dependent on the forest industry. Yes, Alberta gets the headlines, it’s bad there, but it’s bad in rural BC too.
      The GREENDP has inflicted harm on these places, by added taxation to large employers (health tax, many time greater than the old MSP premium) and the Undrip native legislation. Besides, those heathens in rural B.C. voted Liberal, so the GREENDP will sacrifice them.

    2. I arrived there in 83, in a bust cycle, and, found others there, same age group, all from the mainland, all just wanting to “do our time and experience” and get back south. The mid-80s were a hard time finding work in BC, anywhere, the coast was still busted over the real estate bust, and the north busted their oil/gas, at the time.

      Yup. My father was a machinist there and things got so bad that he was on work-sharing for a while.

      The company was owned by a Prinz Dummkopf type. His father founded it, his widow took over after he died, and she eventually handed it over to the son. Junior really wasn’t all that interested in the business and let the managers run it. I wasn’t at all surprised when it went into receivership a few years later because they treated the place like their private piggy bank.

      After a year of limbo, the firm was bought up by a larger outfit and my father remained there until he retired.

      Fort St. John is also a farm town, so that can still keep a few businesses afloat. Places like Mackenzie, though, are in dire straits because they are solely dependent on the forestry industry.

      I also heard that Fort Nelson’s doing quite poorly. A few weeks ago, I spoke with someone who was from there. According to her, its population used be around 5000, but it’s now down to 3000.

      Thank you Prinz Dummkopf, Red Rachel, and Mr. Horganweaver.

      1. Yes, Ft Nelson also had plywood mills and sawmills, but many shut down in the early 80s, when many others did across the whole province at that time.
        For the forest industry, right now, it seems like the early 80s all over again. Been saying for a long time, there is a plan underway to turn all of BC into a giant park, and to kill the forest industry, despite it being a renewable resource. They were cutting third growth here down on the coast, but, those cuts are visible from the cruise ships, and that’s very very bad. Can’t former loggers learn to code?
        FSJ lost its mill last year, and like Ft Nelson, will be dependent on the O&G industry. At least FSJ has the agriculture industry around it, and gas will come back, it will take the eviction of the Federal Liberals, and the Greendp to bring it back. But Ft Nelson will be in trouble without O&G.
        Its a disgusting turn of events here in the west, watching governments do all they can to destroy resource industries and the small towns that rely on those industries.

        1. I usually take Central Mountain Air to FSJ because of its schedule. It used to have a direct route there from Edmonton but after the election of Horganweaver, the traffic dropped off significantly. That was dumped about 2 years ago and now I get there through Prince George, which adds to my transit time as well as the air fare.

          Fort St. John is slowly becoming a backwater thanks to those bozos in Ottawa and Victoria.

  31. The Royal Canadian Liberal Police did recently announce they had multiple investigations underway into the major black market pot operations but, to me, it somehow does not have the moral criminal imperative of normal police activity, I hope they’re not devoting too many resources to this commercial irregularity, maybe it should be a civil matter, the Liberal-operated legal pot businesses should maybe sue the unauthorized entrepreneurs. Maybe there are a few laws (out of hundreds of thousands) being broken but surely Sgt Goofy has more important things to do, like bellboying migrant luggage across the border or patrolling internet postings.

    1. yop, it is much like bootlegging was, it will be a minor tax evasion crime, f-all will happen, millions spent.

  32. I have no where to go anymore, the f-ing stupid has drained my ability to even think normally. I hate almost all my fellow humans.

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