Cannabis extract prices vary 'wildly' between provincially run stores

A CBC News analysis has revealed the price of cannabis extracts varies widely across Canada, with the same product costing up to three and a half times more in one provincially run online store than another.

The inconsistencies, experts say, could undermine efforts to wipe out the country's illegal market.

The analysis looked at the price of 61 cannabis capsules, sprays and oils available in Ontario's provincially run online retailer in December 2019.

Those products were then matched with their counterparts from the online provincial retailers in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador — provinces where the government is an official distributor and runs an online mail-order site.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan have direct-to-dispensary models, where licensed producers sell directly to retail stores, without the province acting as a wholesaler.

The analysis found that for 31 of the products, the price difference between the most and least expensive province was more than 50 per cent. In some cases the exact same product cost three times more.

Like it's not bad enough they're peddling shit, now they fuck over people with price fixing. How is it cheaper in NL where they have to ship it to, unlike FROM Ontario where it's made and the most expensive.

I live just on the Ontario canada border and upstate NY. Our local area's black market has seen a massive flood of "legal" (lolz) Canadian weed products that are being sold for stupid prices. A 1/8th typically goes for 30-40 bucks here...unless of course you want your weed to be really dry and shitty and put in a very oversized plastic container with fancy Canadian Government stickers and warning labels....well that will set you back 80-100 USD. Most of it is by Tweed or DNA. Most is little black containers. All of it is way shitty pot. Common theme I found while looking around was its way to dry, taste like hay and isn't all that potent.

NY is trying...or should I say mostly Cuomo is trying to get NY to a rec legal status this year...and if it happens I would suspect these products to vanish overnight practically.....but likely only briefly. I think we can all agree that if NY is now gonna deal cannabis instead of put us in prison for it, they are going to show the world how to properly sell the worlds shittiest weed and the world highest prices!

I still haven't found a way to accept that the Government that once ruined our lives and imprisoned us , is now going to be our drug dealer. Thats about the same as a prostitute pimping a pimp

But in the end there is nothing more I love on earth than a fine established Government!

"I still haven't found a way to accept that the Government that once ruined our lives and imprisoned us , is now going to be our drug dealer. Thats about the same as a prostitute pimping a pimp "


anyone who would buy or bow to them. deserves all they get or should I say. won't get..but rather get ripped off 100%

BrewerT said:

I live just on the Ontario canada border and upstate NY. Our local area's black market has seen a massive flood of "legal" (lolz) Canadian weed products that are being sold for stupid prices. A 1/8th typically goes for 30-40 bucks here...unless of course you want your weed to be really dry and shitty and put in a very oversized plastic container with fancy Canadian Government stickers and warning labels....well that will set you back 80-100 USD. Most of it is by Tweed or DNA. Most is little black containers. All of it is way shitty pot. Common theme I found while looking around was its way to dry, taste like hay and isn't all that potent.

NY is trying...or should I say mostly Cuomo is trying to get NY to a rec legal status this year...and if it happens I would suspect these products to vanish overnight practically.....but likely only briefly. I think we can all agree that if NY is now gonna deal cannabis instead of put us in prison for it, they are going to show the world how to properly sell the worlds shittiest weed and the world highest prices!

I still haven't found a way to accept that the Government that once ruined our lives and imprisoned us , is now going to be our drug dealer. Thats about the same as a prostitute pimping a pimp

But in the end there is nothing more I love on earth than a fine established Government!

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You should check the return date lol

BrewerT said:

they are going to show the world how to properly sell the worlds shittiest weed and the world highest prices!

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When narcissistic and greedy politicians and business executives try to do something, such as produce and market cannabis, they do so for the lowest possible price to appease the shareholders. This means hiring people who have no, or barely any experience in real-world grow operations.

Subpar wages equals subpar employees and subpar product. Also, the cannabis growing industry is currently rife with layoffs across the board, and several producers are now at high risk of being delisted from public stock markets. Think anyone who has any sense is going to want to work in such an unstable environment?

I bought a couple of 1/8ths around Christmas time this past year here in BC, literally just to check the quality of the product. $35 I paid per. I can't say it was terrible, but I'll take my own grown cannabis hands-down.

Freedom seed said:

You should check the return date lol

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Ya know, that was honestly the first place I looked after the very first bowl of "high grade" Tweed weed. I cant even remember the bullshit strain names either outside of Super Lemon Haze which tasted like my lawn clippings dried out. Zero lemon, zero terps. Been more suiting to have called it Super Tweed haze.

spek9 said:

When narcissistic and greedy politicians and business executives try to do something, such as produce and market cannabis, they do so for the lowest possible price to appease the shareholders. This means hiring people who have no, or barely any experience in real-world grow operations.

Subpar wages equals subpar employees and subpar product. Also, the cannabis growing industry is currently rife with layoffs across the board, and several producers are now at high risk of being delisted from public stock markets. Think anyone who has any sense is going to want to work in such an unstable environment?

I bought a couple of 1/8ths around Christmas time this past year here in BC, literally just to check the quality of the product. $35 I paid per. I can't say it was terrible, but I'll take my own grown cannabis hands-down.

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I totally agree. I will take the pheno's I would normally pass on over anything I have tried from the legal Canadian market. I hate saying that but its true. I had hoped for a better product but I have to concur that it seems like a amateur political product at a professional price point.

Tweed has been the worst I have had. Second, I hate to say this also is DNA...and Ive grown 4 or 5 of their strains and greatly liked them all. But then I found out that don and aaron sold out DNA to some Corporation.

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I totally agree. I will take the pheno's I would normally pass on over anything I have tried from the legal Canadian market. I hate saying that but its true. I had hoped for a better product but I have to concur that it seems like a amateur political product at a professional price point.

Tweed has been the worst I have had. Second, I hate to say this also is DNA...and Ive grown 4 or 5 of their strains and greatly liked them all. But then I found out that don and aaron sold out DNA to some Corporation.

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I'm truly sorry BrewerT that any of the bunk grown here has made it into your area. We decent Canadians would never do that to you guys our friends. But as you know these weasels have tried to be the jailers who love to sell you weed. It makes us sick and we are doing our best to FAIL all these assholes and these companies.
I couldn't agree with you MORE when you said our previous jailers now want to be our weed dealers. That part make me SICK. I will fight them til i'm dead over that very thing.
You don't get away with busting me in the past and now trying to make money from me for the thing you busted me for.
That part makes me so mad I could kick a kitten down the stairs. (KIDDING) Just to emphasize how angry that makes me.
Anyway please accept our apologies from decent brothers up here over those nasty filthy treachery ridden jars of dried hay and hypocrite weed. We are doing our best here to stop them.
Decent folks here BOYCOTT trudys gropers new found "get rich quick scheme" Seems the only ones getting rich are the disgusting corp thieves who steal from each other and shareholders.

Any Americans that come across the border there are whole towns full of dispensaries in Ontario (that don’t sell LP garbage). Bring your loupe and buy a disposable pipe. You’re gonna want the loupe to sort out the best import hash. It would make a fine holiday.

Every now and then you will find a place that has a bunch of very weird strain names. Leave that one and go to the next. We all know what genetics the Legacy market holds. The LP’s are dumping their shit domestically too.

Salutations,

A few years ago one could wonder why there even had to be an artificial separation between "medical" vs "recreational", until memories went blurred enough to impose such bogus contraption as normal. Then further criminalization installed (with significant variance...) although it ain't too clear, at least to me, how today's "Black Market" might become worse than its present "legal" yet predatory substitute.

Nonetheless there are people who still think it's "better than nothing", that this is assimilable to slow social "progress", etc. YMMV.

M'well, meanwhile i can observe there's already too little public space for *ALL* opinions (inluding ours) to express, not to mention in my natal language (...); these days i find an increasing number of mass media sites starting with CBC/SRC which refuse access simply on the basis of an alias clearly protecting my right to remain anonymous, e.g. it doesn't matter whas't actually written anymore. As for the only few "legal" SQdC retail stores around i just can't/won't be allowed to enter and pick a sample to put under my microscope despite my elder body being plenty of evidence that i'm way beyond 21: now they want to see my civic name...

Landlords won the retroactive right to get cannabis consumers evicted, even those sticking to the "medical" model, sprayed with soups of Pest Control Products by the dozen... Municipalities support cops distributing contraventions if we dare display a leaf in print, with civil asset forfeiture threatening our right to property if real plants can be found, etc. Even when hidden away from all doors and windows TV perpetuates such persecution with public-paid propaganda juxtaposed to the most contrasting alcohol promotion possible.

All In The Name Of Children.

But that's supposed to be "better than nothing" and progress is coming soon someday, eventually, step by step supposedly. While right now it's absolutely ridicule to even give permits to greedy industrials who sell oil at a prohibitive cost though other well established markets as canola, corn and similar proved long ago it could/should be much more affordable. The difference being i can choose which dealer will provide my cooking oil based on quality + price and reliability...

Légaleezation is a slow acting poison designed to render populations lethargic until nobody is left who remembers the good old days, when cannabis used to have a traditional reputation of being the safest "dope".

Good day, have fun!!

I was at a buddy's place the other day and his buddy that works for an LP was there shooting the shit explained why the weed was so terrible. He said the weed looks awesome, smells great and is quite potent UNTIL they dry the fuck out of it in order to pass the microbial count test. He said it goes from high grade to low grade in no time flat. So much so they gave up trying and put all their gear into the concentrates game.

Seems that a proper dry and cure increases the microbial counts to where they can't pass the test, so it's either dry the fuck out of it or irradiate it, which has the same effect.

Pretty sad.

BurtMaklin said:

I was at a buddy's place the other day and his buddy that works for an LP was there shooting the shit explained why the weed was so terrible. He said the weed looks awesome, smells great and is quite potent UNTIL they dry the fuck out of it in order to pass the microbial count test. He said it goes from high grade to low grade in no time flat. So much so they gave up trying and put all their gear into the concentrates game.

Seems that a proper dry and cure increases the microbial counts to where they can't pass the test, so it's either dry the fuck out of it or irradiate it, which has the same effect.

Pretty sad.

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They have to dry the fuck out of it because it’s going to sit in a bag in a stock room for 2 years before it’s sold lol

westcoast420 said:

They have to dry the fuck out of it because it’s going to sit in a bag in a stock room for 2 years before it’s sold lol

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There's also that. Lol

Egzoset said:

Légaleezation is a slow acting poison designed to render populations lethargic until nobody is left who remembers the good old days, when cannabis used to have a traditional reputation of being the safest "dope".

Good day, have fun!!

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It is a “Multi Generational Plan”, similar to other plans the libs have cooked up over the years. 3 generations.

BurtMaklin said:

I was at a buddy's place the other day and his buddy that works for an LP was there shooting the shit explained why the weed was so terrible. He said the weed looks awesome, smells great and is quite potent UNTIL they dry the fuck out of it in order to pass the microbial count test. He said it goes from high grade to low grade in no time flat. So much so they gave up trying and put all their gear into the concentrates game.

Seems that a proper dry and cure increases the microbial counts to where they can't pass the test, so it's either dry the fuck out of it or irradiate it, which has the same effect.

Pretty sad.

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I wonder. A food-grade gamma irradiation might kill the bugs without harshing the quality of the bud. Bound to be some licensure wrinkles

Mine dries for 4-5 days until it is almost dry then back in the bag for a sweat then another day out then and into the freezer. This way I always have fresh weed, and I'll pull out a 1/2lb at a time to put in a jar (it's a big jar)....by the time I get to the end it is fully cured, lol.

If one was to sell it out of the freezer like slick willy used to do you would have fresh weed that passes the microbial count test, and is smokeable and still sticky icky. But the LPs can't do that.

cannabineer said:

I wonder. A food-grade gamma irradiation might kill the bugs without harshing the quality of the bud. Bound to be some licensure wrinkles

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Been smoking microbes since the 80s, be smoking them till I'm either too fat or old (or both) to grow. Hell, I even smoked the fungus gnats and rove beetles until their populations got in check. A little crackle/pop and nom nom nom good. As long as it doesn't have the corona virus in it I'm good lol.

BurtMaklin said:

Been smoking microbes since the 80s, be smoking them till I'm either too fat or old (or both) to grow. Hell, I even smoked the fungus gnats and rove beetles until their populations got in check. A little crackle/pop and nom nom nom good. As long as it doesn't have the corona virus in it I'm good lol.

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Good one mate.

I still wonder if some gamma would satisfy the polente while not killing the smoke.

BurtMaklin said:

Been smoking microbes since the 80s, be smoking them till I'm either too fat or old (or both) to grow. Hell, I even smoked the fungus gnats and rove beetles until their populations got in check. A little crackle/pop and nom nom nom good. As long as it doesn't have the corona virus in it I'm good lol.

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This just in - high dose THC kills Coronavirus!...lol JK...wouldn't surprise me though.