McPhisto wrote:
Proof of what? You are arguing the price of legal weed in canada is low ($5-$10 per gram), based on that article? But that article is about standard illegal weed, not about the brand new legal recreational weed (not yet officially priced or available anywhere) nor is it about available medical weed (which gets minimal tax levied on it). Recreational weed from a dispensary will be much more expensive than both of the other options due to taxes and regulation compliance costs. The only cheap weed available to everyone without a doctor's prescription will be the home grown weed, and it's not as easy to grow quality weed as people think, especially not in Canada, unless you splurge on decent indoor growing gear.
I'm not sure where the disconnect is for you? It's not just based on that article, but the further links I posted and of first hand knowledge. Did you bother to click on any of the other links that I supplied? The four others I supplied are for "recreational dispensary" weed. These places already exist, and are selling for the prices I have quoted which you can see in their brick and mortar shops or online if you bother to click and see. Many more of these places will be properly licenseable once legalization kicks in, but that depends on the province. So are you saying that come October all of these places are going to either disappear or jack their prices way up due to tax? Maybe a little bit, but at 1$ tax per 10$ g and 10% on purchases over 10$ seems not too bad. Where are are you getting that the prices of recreational weed will be 'much' more expensive than it already is? The official medical (aready legal) prices are about $7 a g. Is anything between 5-12$ a gram expensive?
Anyway here is a link from the Star which says the government is aiming for around 10$ per g.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/201 ... s-say.html
The ministers pegged the cost at about $10 a gram. Each gram of marijuana would have a tax of $1 on sales up to $10 and a 10-per-cent tax on sales worth more than $10.
I have read nothing that indicates that the new legal recreational market will be way over priced. Maybe ill end up completely wrong and it would be a shame if they fucked the whole thing up by overpricing everything. We'll see