Who said that nobody benefits from the Conservative’s mismanagement of the country? Look at what they have done with growing marijuana. By trying to regulate the growing of everyone’s favourite toke, the Tories have driven the street price for a nickel bag down to as low as $2 per gram. The Tories might have driven our economy down the crapper but they have at least lowered the price of getting high.
And these big, new commercial grow-ops thought they had struck the mother lode! They were anticipating prices for legally prescribed medical marijuana to get them as much as $13 per gram. In their dreams, maybe! The incompetent Tories have got themselves caught up in legal challenges that could take a long time to unsnarl.
In the meantime any prescription holder or friend of a prescription holder can legally grow a few hundred kilograms of pot for ‘personal consumption.’ And the government’s chosen instruments of marijuana grow-op operators will be choosing between meeting the market or bankruptcy.
Mind you, the more aggressive grow-ops that the government supports can optimize the THC level in their pot to five or six times that of the bush weed that is most often sold by street vendors. At $2 a gram, you might have to toke up more often.
In the meantime, there seems to be a growing list of medical practitioners writing prescriptions for pot. They will first give you a serious lecture on the dangers of smoking and then write you a script that could keep you seriously high. It is probably best you use the pot in brownies. This would be helped if someone does the chemical computations as to how much fibre there is in the pot. The chances are that pot might be bad for your lungs but good for your colon. Anything is better than broccoli.
But if you are worried about the calories consumed with your brownies, you might be better off just sprinkling the cannabis on your Greek salad. Now you can be lean, trim, smoke-free, well regulated and high at the same time.
We also believe that liquor stores are the wrong place to sell pot. Yes, they have the experience in controlling sales to underage users but pot would be sold more properly in Bulk Barn stores. By staying away from fancy packaging and advertised branding, we can help our legitimate medical marijuana users by keeping the price down. And by selling it at Bulk Barn, we would sure take away the product allure.
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