VIANARCHRIS
Well-Known Member
Never gonna happen. Dispensaries are already tax paying businesses, some of them licensed by the municipality they're in. When it becomes legal to operate a storefront, it's gonna be a tough sell to limit it to LP's, IMO. The LP's are gearing up for recreational sales...they don't care about patients...never have.(but everyone else is not allowed of course),
Here's what I think should happen:
Dispensaries should continue to operate for patients, they have the knowledge and experience. There will be government licenses, regulations and inspections/testing for growers and sellers, like every other product sold for human consumption.
LP's become the Molson's or Labbatt's of the recreational cannabis market and have a secondary line of products labeled 'mmj' to sell to unsuspecting patients. Until they find a way to patent a plant, there is no future on the medical side and they know it. Selling warehouse weed to weekend tokers is the real pot-o-cash.
The patient has the right to grow his/her own medicine or have somebody do it for them. This limits the LP mmj customer base to a small fraction of actual patients.
And finally...
Every Canadian over 19 can grow a limited number of plants for personal consumption. This reduces the concerns about diversion that existed with the mmar.
Not exactly the free-for-all, wild,wild west outcome some want, but I think it's a fair compromise for everybody.