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[DustMagnet]

At the end of 2018, black market sales still accounted for 80 per cent of Canadian recreational cannabis purchases.



https://nationalpost...nment-hoped-for

 

Maybe they should have put more effort into their distribution efforts.  If you could get cannabis with the ease of getting booze I suspect the tax revenues would be greater.

[Love the rock]

I’m surprised I thought you’d see more people openly smoking pot than you do once it became legal. I personally don’t notice any difference at all .

[Nparker]

I’m surprised I thought you’d see more people openly smoking pot than you do once it became legal. I personally don’t notice any difference at all .

Agreed. It smelled terrible before and it still does now.

[dasmo]

Maybe they should have put more effort into their distribution efforts.  If you could get cannabis with the ease of getting booze I suspect the tax revenues would be greater.

It's legal but you can only buy it from us and were sold out..... 

[Victoria Watcher]

I’m surprised I thought you’d see more people openly smoking pot than you do once it became legal. I personally don’t notice any difference at all .

 

i saw a couple girls the other day outside tim horton's.  well away from the door.  i admit i thought it twas a bit odd.  but that's the only time i can recall seeing/smelling public use.

[Hotel Mike]

I catch the odd whiff walking through town, but no more than I used to before it was legalized.

[DustMagnet]

It's legal but you can only buy it from us and were sold out..... 

 

I'm thinking more like the lack of brick&mortar retailers.  Not everyone wants to buy weed online.

 

And why can't you get liquor delivered to your house via Canada Post?  This is all bass-ackwards...

[Victoria Watcher]

And why can't you get liquor delivered to your house via Canada Post?  This is all bass-ackwards...

 

I actually think you can.

 

https://cookstliquor.com/beermail/

 

Or you can have it delivered by courier/delivery service.

 

http://www.liquorexpress.ca/delivery/

 

http://dialabottle.c...ivery-victoria/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 March 2019 - 04:23 PM.

[DustMagnet]

^ Neat but strange.  The first one is beer packs only it seems.  The other two both offer phone numbers to call with zero information otherwise.  That's cutting edge 90's web design.

Just add a shopping cart to the http://www.bcliquorstores.com/ website - they are 95% of the way there.

[Victoria Watcher]

legal dial a bottle has been around in victoria since the 80’s. odd it has not evolved.

[Rob Randall]

Speaking of liquor:

 

[LJ]

i saw a couple girls the other day outside tim horton's.  well away from the door.  i admit i thought it twas a bit odd.  but that's the only time i can recall seeing/smelling public use.

Well you don't really see people walking around drinking from a whiskey bottle either.

 

Can you legally smoke weed in public?

[jasmineshinga]

Anywhere you can smoke, you can smoke weed now. Sadly too often I see smokers of both sorts congregating at or near signs demarkating non-smoking areas such as bus shelters and public squares/parks.

[Rob Randall]

Well you don't really see people walking around drinking from a whiskey bottle either.

 

 

You obviously never knew my great uncle.

[DustMagnet]

Well you don't really see people walking around drinking from a whiskey bottle either.

 

To be fair, no one really knows what exactly is in the brown paper bag.  Could be a Dasani...

[spanky123]

Maybe they should have put more effort into their distribution efforts.  If you could get cannabis with the ease of getting booze I suspect the tax revenues would be greater.

 

Distribution is part of it but my bet is that the price is the determining factor. Until the feds get the guts to go after the large illegal growers (which they won't) then things won't change. I read recently that tax revenue is less than 5% of what the feds forecast.

[Victoria Watcher]

Distribution is part of it but my bet is that the price is the determining factor. Until the feds get the guts to go after the large illegal growers (which they won't) then things won't change. I read recently that tax revenue is less than 5% of what the feds forecast.

 

maybe the question is should they go after them.  the illegal market has worked for the last 50 years.  there is a massive underground trade of prostitution and tutors and home renovators and ridesharing etc. etc.  even underground booze from home-brews.  should they be any lesser a target?  i'm not sure.  government warnings of poor quality pot leading to ill-health are mostly overblown most would agree.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 March 2019 - 07:12 AM.

[spanky123]

maybe the question is should they go after them.  the illegal market has worked for the last 50 years.  there is a massive underground trade of prostitution and tutors and home renovators and ridesharing etc. etc.  should they be any lesser a target?

 

I think that the feds do go after underground operators in other industries but having said that, none of those are taking away 80% of the business and 95% of the tax dollars!

[Victoria Watcher]

yes government hates competition.  maybe they should not have entered this industry so late.

[spanky123]

We will see next week what impact this will have on the Fed budget.