No I doubt that lol, whenever the government gets involved, that’s when it all goes to hell. This is only about financial profits, nothing to do with people’s health, the black market is being used as an excuse to create less competition from legal home grown and black market growers, we will probably be all lumped together to keep it simple for them to deal with.
I thought the same as you about gas price regulation, when they started to regulate gas prices here in NS. I thought great the government are going to stop big oil gouging us at the pumps.
Wrong, the gouging got worse as competition for business was removed with fixed pricing, that was higher everywhere.
This is the same problem with weed, the government sets the price basically by controlling the amount of tax you pay, the LP’S because of all the regulations have to have a high mark up to recoup those costs.
This does not benefit the customer financially or for health as the LP’s will cut corners and use illegal dangerous chemicals to save a crop with mites of mould, which has already happened a few times that we are aware of, as they were caught out.
I can see tighter restrictions on home grown but mostly medical coming, I saw this coming 2 years ago.
Next the government will want the same restrictions and controls for growing your medical and four rec plants, and probably growers will be forced to apply the same standards as the big LP’s, with testing and strain identification to make sure we are only growing low THC level plants, not that the THC levels make much difference in the whole entourage of effects and buzz and they may want regular inspection visits, for which you will have to pay for of course. You have to think of government’s as a business corporation that changes its management team every few years, the more money they make from regulation the more government jobs there are, and more taxes collected to pay their high over payed jobs and pensions.
This will possibly force a lot of medical growers to switch to buying LP weed because growing your own will be much more expensive and a pain in the arse from all the security crap and testing that will have to be done.
I think the rest of the worlds government’s are looking at Canada and the US states that have legalised not the other way around.
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