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When marijuana becomes legal, should private stores be allowed to sell cannabis products?

4209 total votes   Added

Yes 1965 votes 46.69%
No 2244 votes 53.31%
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AnonymousCommentsCantGoWrong Verified

depends on how it is handled, corner stores with strict packaging and age verification laws the way we do cigarettes? Sure. A foreign owned private company with exclusive rights to sell a product that does not generate tax revenue for the province like The Beer Store? No.

NL
Not liberal

I say yes on that spread the wealth out of you look at Colorado as an example they did it right when it came time to legalization.... I seen a documentary on it I think on Netflix I'm sure it's on YouTube as well

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The Watcher

Let Government sell it. They need the money (LOL)

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Sngbrd676 Verified

Yah & they say it’s gonna benefit us citizens! Let them do it greedy .....

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Soojavu Verified

I can see the lineup at the dollar store now. Why pay 20 bucks when you can get it for a buck eh?

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soowat Verified

Thx for my morning chuckle

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TheChad

Chuckles all around! πŸ˜†

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Panther 340

If you allow private sellers then it will be sold 0n reserves for cheaper like cigarettes now. ...and Trudeau will get no tax revenue from it. So one of the original reasons to make it legal becomes moot. Sadly in a few years from now we will realize the can of worms we opened when we made it legal . Our grandkids will bear the consequences of normalizing this drug use.

OG
Oldie Goldie Verified

Once it is legal how can you stop any store from selling it. Beer was only sold from the L.C.B.O but now it is available in most grocery store---The same for Wine too. Cheap Cigarettes are already sold on the Black Market now and Marijuana will be quickly sold on the Black Market too.
The Government says they will stop illegal sales of Marijuana but they said that about Tobacco too.
Marijuana growers will sell to anyone who pays the price !

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HoundsFanatic

there's no reason for a plant to be so tightly regulated other than greed.

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janegray

Was 10 bucks a gram in 60s it's 10 bucks a gram now?

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soowat Verified

Sadly, one would be hard pressed to find any product that is less expensive today than it was in the sixties

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ehbcd2 Verified

If you paid 10 per gram in the 60's you got ripped off. It was 20.00/oz in the 70's (28 grams)

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Poncho

When it's legalized, people are going to be smoking joints like cigarettes

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HoundsFanatic

when it is legalized extracts will take over. as it is, fewer and fewer people smoke the flowers any longer. extracts and vaping have taken over.

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Evale

We will always have the abusers.....many of us would order one donut; then some will order 3...???? Some get one coffee per day...others need 3 X lg. People are dying from obesity.....don't know what the answer is....

LW
lead in the SSM water? Verified

nothing will change, quit beating the drum. the people who are going to smoke pot after October aren't waiting until October.

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d'sbored Verified

Yeah, okay! Some choose to smoke it, some don't. What a stupid gesture thinking people will be smoking it like cigarettes.

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units999

Who cares.

LW
lead in the SSM water? Verified

"i don't like politics anyway" "who cares"

spoken like true soo garbage



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