What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
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Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
#2Which is why there should never be a "cannabis industry". We created a food industry that produces sub-standard food and much of it goes to waste. Applying the same obviously flawed principles to cannabis is another mistake. Pot should be legal to grow/possess/use, but not to buy or sell. There's no point. It's so easy to grow. Just plant some in your backyard and smoke it. Or give it away. That's what it's for.
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#3Process it into commodity cannabis compounds (THC, CDB, etc) and lower the prices to fair and reasonable.
The Canadian cannabis market is regulated by idiots for the benefit of companies, and the consumers are taken advantage of.
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#4So wait, they're holding (and destroying!) massive quantities to keep the price of medical marijuana "34% higher" than the black market price, then acting surprised that their product isn't moving?
> Forced, in most cases, to sell to a provincial wholesaler along with everyone else in the sector
Okay I know nothing about Canada's cannabis market, but who thought that could possibly be a good idea?
Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
#5Process it into commodity cannabis compounds (THC, CDB, etc) and lower the prices to fair and reasonable. The Canadian cannabis market is regulated by idiots for the benefit of companies, and the consumers are taken advantage of.
It seems that they've managed to set things up in such a way that it's actually more profitable to destroy the cannabis than process it.
Reminds me of the neoliberal take on housing and healthcare.
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#6So wait, they're holding (and destroying!) massive quantities to keep the price of medical marijuana "34% higher" than the black market price, then acting surprised that their product isn't moving? > Forced, in most cases, to sell to a provincial wholesaler along with everyone else in the sector Okay I know nothing about Canada's cannabis market, but who thought that could possibly be a good idea?
Canada has a ton of such cartels, the egg board, the milk board, the LCBO and so on.
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#7Weed being legal is cool (and a huge deal and way overdue) but, until I moved to SF, I still bought from a dealer. It was cheaper and I got really high quality stuff, got to give feedback to the guy on the strains, chocolates, etc. Plus my guy would smoke me up for free a good amount of the time and we'd just chill and chat for a bit.
Legal weed is wayyyy more expensive in my experience and I dislike the experience. I went to an SF dispensary and it was so odd - had to give them an ID, sit there and fiddle with some ipad, etc. Presumably there's a lot of overhead with taxes, employees, property, etc.
And apparently artificially keeping prices high...
Also a somewhat damning case of "we have no idea how to value this"
I don't really smoke anymore, no time, but it was enough of a difference that the novelty of cutesy edibles wore off fairly quickly.
Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
#8So wait, they're holding (and destroying!) massive quantities to keep the price of medical marijuana "34% higher" than the black market price, then acting surprised that their product isn't moving? > Forced, in most cases, to sell to a provincial wholesaler along with everyone else in the sector Okay I know nothing about Canada's cannabis market, but who thought that could possibly be a good idea?
Canada has a ton of such cartels, the egg board, the milk board, the LCBO and so on.
Maple syrup too!
https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2018-03-08/quebecs-legal-maple-...
Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
#9A billion grams. A million kilograms. A thousand tonnes.
…one kilotonne?
Re: What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
#10Which is why there should never be a "cannabis industry". We created a food industry that produces sub-standard food and much of it goes to waste. Applying the same obviously flawed principles to cannabis is another mistake. Pot should be legal to grow/possess/use, but not to buy or sell. There's no point. It's so easy to grow. Just plant some in your backyard and smoke it. Or give it away. That's what it's for.
There needs to be SOME kind of market. Not everybody has the time, space, inclination, or knowhow to do a good job of cultivation, and not everybody has friends who grow.
You could make exactly the same arguments about alcohol. I'm an enthusiastic homebrewer, but I wouldn't say that everybody should brew their own.