And keep in mind, that for every one of these malefactors apprehended,
that’s what I was thinking too, probably every town in Maine has similar stuff going on.
When warnings arise, Best said, people rarely consider the high costs someone would accrue by handing out marijuana edibles.
@MBVapester Wow, as if it wasn’t hard enough already for a patient/medical user to actually find a designated grower willing to help them out. Those bylaws would make it impossible…
Yes in general Manitoba is not a friendly province. Only us and Quebec made it illegal to for personal grow of 4 plants. We now have to wait for the Supreme Court decision in Quebec to see where that will end up.
It’s unbelievable, stupid fu**ing gouv. wasting my money to ban me from growing. Can you imagine the money wasted in court. I was waiting for the results of the appeal and was confident growing would be allowed. It’s the same thing as in the stats (corporates lobbying against home grows), but here it’s the government that makes the money. When QC lost in court the first time, on all official gouv. channels we were still not allowed to grow. We’ll have to see what is in our best interest, leave it like that or try to make a change.
Yes totally agree with the wasted money and there is always lobbying.
I still feel it’s a federal law and should over rule provincial in the end based on freedom of rights but I’m sure not a Supreme Court judge so who knows. Money and time wasted for sure. There must be a lawyer somewhere I one of the provinces that would be willing to take the challenge on a lower fee level but who knows.
Heres a summary of the Court decision:
https://courdappelduquebec.ca/en/judgments/details/procureur-general-du-quebec-c-murray-hall/
Sure sounds like a big lobby and pay to monopolize things. That should be challenged the same as any company not being able to monopolize a market to create false pricing. Manitoba controls the alcohol sales and no private stores except some wine stores so they like to control things.
I feel you, here also, alcohol, electricity and cannabis are controlled by QC. But it does have benefits, electricity is 6.159$CAD/kwh.
I thought Prohibition was bad but we are really seeing some crazy shit with “legalization”…selling lottery tickets to wealthy corporations and then proclaiming that it’s a “blind draw”…political class has NO shame these days - apparently it’s GRAFT that’s been “legalized”, not weed…
Brandon Pollock and Nick Friedman, who purchased hundreds of lottery entries at a cost of about a quarter million dollars, are listed as co-founders of Theory Wellness, which operates many marijuana businesses in Massachusetts and Maine.
The winners were Mitchell Delaney, who plans to open a shop at 181 State Road; Brandon Pollock, who plans to open a shop at 41 Route 236; and Nick Friedman whose planned location is 8 Dexter Lane, Unit 4.
Kittery gets big money for the big lottery
Just last week, Kittery announced more than 700 applications to the lottery had been submitted at a non-refundable cost of $750 each, raising more than $535,000 for the town’s general fund.
“This truly is a blind draw,” Amaral said
Legalize Marijuana shirts gotta be updated to say Deregulate Cannabis
Sounds economically viable…
this is cool…sounds like home-growing is going to lead the way out of Prohibition in Italy:
We need pscylocybin de criminalized here as well but the government will want to control it like weed guaranteed.
The caveat for them to start selling recreational was always that, as medical dispensaries, they have enough supply to 100% guarantee they will meet patient’s needs. If they have that covered then it seems pretty lame to not let them do it now if they really are ready. I know for a fact Garden State Dispensary is not in any position to do so with their own product and will have to rely on the stuff they get from Curathief and other dispos.
They have a right to be angry but at the same time last I heard they were grandfathered into vertical integration because it was mandatory they be one stop shops before we legalized. That’s a huge advantage considering for recreational the state isn’t allowing vertical integration at all to spread out licenses and business opportunities (ie revenue to the state).
At the end of the day they aren’t hurting…
Only for two years… then you can apply for other licenses…
Then they changed that since I was following along, granted it’s been a minute. It’s only fair and if two years of proven business and product are there then businesses should be able to expand in other areas, specially since the standing dispos have it.
From what I’ve read in the papers (which, granted, may have an agenda - honestly not sure with the local news) they can’t actually meet medical needs yet, if you look at the state holistically. Maybe they’re trying to wriggle through a loophole or just flat-out lying about being able to meet medical needs, or maybe the paper is telling half-truths…
And yeah, the prices are insane in NJ and NY. I think I’ve mentioned how steeply they drop when you step across the border into PA? Funny, considering it’s legal here and not there.