xsinx wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:13 pm I admire your enthusiasm about Canada's legalization, but to be honest it's a total fiasco. It's only been a year, but the government introduced so many rules/laws to control how stuff is grown that millions of dollars of investment are required to even begin growing legally (for resale).

You said you'd be importing from Canada... I'm extremely surprised by this, as the legal system still cannot meet even close to the demand, people have turned away from the legal market and are dealing underground mostly.

I would make sure you are dealing with legal sources, I would be extremely surprised to see any Canadian LP having enough production to export.

In any case, I really hope your gov isn't following in ours footsteps, cause they are heading right for a cliff.

FrederickVI wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:44 pm

xsinx wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:13 pm I admire your enthusiasm about Canada's legalization, but to be honest it's a total fiasco. It's only been a year, but the government introduced so many rules/laws to control how stuff is grown that millions of dollars of investment are required to even begin growing legally (for resale).

You said you'd be importing from Canada... I'm extremely surprised by this, as the legal system still cannot meet even close to the demand, people have turned away from the legal market and are dealing underground mostly.

I would make sure you are dealing with legal sources, I would be extremely surprised to see any Canadian LP having enough production to export.

In any case, I really hope your gov isn't following in ours footsteps, cause they are heading right for a cliff.

Hi, thank you for your reply!

Wow. I won’t go too much into it but the level of bureaucratic bullsh*t I had to go through was unbelievable let alone the cost.

I was unaware of the supply issues in Canada, is this a nationwide thing, yes? And I assume you would put this down to government regulation also

FrederickVI wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:44 pmHi, thank you for your reply!

Wow. I won’t go too much into it but the level of bureaucratic bullsh*t I had to go through was unbelievable let alone the cost.

I was unaware of the supply issues in Canada, is this a nationwide thing, yes? And I assume you would put this down to government regulation also

xsinx wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:55 am

FrederickVI wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:44 pmHi, thank you for your reply!

Wow. I won’t go too much into it but the level of bureaucratic bullsh*t I had to go through was unbelievable let alone the cost.

I was unaware of the supply issues in Canada, is this a nationwide thing, yes? And I assume you would put this down to government regulation also

Let me go in more details. There's a few key problems:

1. They are so scared criminals are going to run things or stuff is gonna get stolen that the checks are insane, crazy regulations on security so a start up is millions of dollars. I assume this is pretty much what you've been through.

2. The government is in a moral paradox because it both wants to hurt/eliminate the black market and reduce usage because they still consider it a health issue. This resulted so far in very high prices because the gov put the health/safety first, but it makes the product much less appealing vs the black market.

Also tied to that, they put limits on possession to 30g, so they only sell up to that. No buying a pound to save. Cheapest OZ in Quebec (the province where the prices for legal weed are the lowest) is over 200$ and you can easily find 100$ OZ from the black market.

3. Speed drying, speed curing, resulting in tiny nugs/popcorn/shake. Long story short the government's weed is generally lower quality even compared to budget options from the black market.

4. The products in many cases are irradiated. There have been a few that got caught using banned products to treat their plants, some have been caught selling and buying from the black market.

5. There is also the fact they didn't have enough stock to handle the initial demand. I don't know about other provinces, but in Quebec we still haven't quite recuperated from that and only a few products are being stocked regularly. For weeks some of the shops had lineups. The website crashed also for a while during the first day.

I could go on, but currently about nothing they do is right.