Here’s some stuff I wrote when I was reading this rather well written and immenently rational summary of the current statsus. If a tad lengthy…
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ccananbis survey
less paackaging
enforce prefernce to grow completely organically, or at least according to some best practices that aim to reduice harm to consumer; for instance, no checmicasl fertilizers, minumum % of butane/methyene, whevs’
65$m to health & prevention – what is total tax income over same period? must total all taxes, all funded programs
“Substance use and addictions program : Investments of $62.5 million over five years (2018-2023), directed through Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program have supported”
“Health Canada’s policy does not limit the number of cannabis licences, with the expectation that the size and number of market participants would be determined by market forces.”
personal home grows should be inspected. limited to 4/PERSON, not per house/dwelling
perhaps incenticvie being inspected
or does insurance already handle this? ?
10 companies seems enough to allow competition?
“Between October 2019 and December 2021, 43.2% of dried cannabis production came from 10 standard licence holders, 55.9% came from another 307 standard licence holders, and the remaining 0.9% came from 178 micro-licence holders. “
would be interesting to see how this breaks down vs population provicnle level
“As of July 31, 2022, there were 886 active federal commercial licence holders (for example, cultivation, processing and medical sales licences) located across all ten provinces, the Yukon, and Northwest Territories. From October 2019 to December 2021, licence holders reported $5.6 billion in total revenues, including sales to distributors, retailers, medical clients and other licence holders. Across Canada, approximately 3,200 retail stores have been authorized by the provinces and territories to sell cannabis. Additionally, online sales are available in each of the 13 provinces and territories, providing access to adults in regions that are geographically distant or lacking in brick-and-mortar retail stores.”
the possession limit, even in a car, should be 1kg / person.
“Consistent with the approach taken in other jurisdictions, the Act imposes a public possession limit of a maximum of 30 grams of dried cannabis or its equivalent for individuals over age 18. “
while i don’t like to arue the medical for the reasons,
“What are your views on the current medical access program for cannabis?”
maybe have one system, allow taxc-free or reimbusrsment by drug plan?
but really, needs to be medically validarted firstl.
Below here are my input to the surgfvey. I didn’t capture the first 3 quesections, figrured they’d summarize and ideally send me an email of my inputs. fearing they might not, and dreading to use the back button for fear of loasing some of my inpitus (which I was foolislhly entering into a web fom, no less a mult-step web form- driven question of very simple but not so comforting security ) whasy was i not using my “type into soco.c file and then paste into web forms? method i so wich i could get in the habit of doing.)
maybe i want something like that tech ceo, maybe steve wolfram? with the extremely detail eanaylsys of every keystroke he’s hit, every email he’s sent (and maybe rec’d?)….
-4. Protecting Public Safety
4.1 What are your general impressions of legal retailers’ progress to-date in capturing the legal market? Please explain.
Good, but current lowest price in the illegal online free-shipping shops is ~55$/28g, but ~100$/28g at the local OCS-supplied store. Both rpoducts are highest quality. I like the legal market’s regulation and testing (ensuring good clean product). But it’s still ~2x more expensive, and that’s a big perk for the illegal market.
While it’s probably political suicide to suggest a 55$/28g floor price for the legal market, the cost of legal is going to have to come down. Only the pants-on-head crazy types will avoid the legal stores when the cost is the same, and while they’re loud, they’re not many.
- Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes
5.1 What are your views on the current medical access program for cannabis?
Merge it with the legal recreational market. Allow tax deductions on “medical” cannabis to be listed as “medical” expenses. Give DIN numbers*. Force/allow insurance coverage as any other drug.
* And get the studies done so we can determine what is medical and what is bullshit. IMHO, there is one hell of a lot of bullshit surrounding medical cannabis. Do the damn science like you should have ~20 years ago when the medical access programs started. Find out what works and what doesn’t. Remove the ones that don’t work from the insurable list. Maybe still allow tax deductions for the stress-relief if nothing else.”
- General Comments (Continued)
6.2 Please provide additional comments you would like to share on the administration and operation of the Cannabis Act and its Regulations that were not addressed in the previous sections. In particular, we are interested in hearing from you on additional impacts the Cannabis Act has had since its implementation, including trends that you have observed and evidence sources that substantiate such trends. Please include additional sources of information or data that should be considered to support the legislative review.
Please limit your response to 5,000 characters, including spaces.
Enforce growers to use least harmful practices; ban any practice, process or product that increases health risks (e.g. no heavy metals in fertilizers, no “bad” chemicals, etc.)
Force growers to only grow outdoors or in naturally-lighted greenhouses. No electricity for lighting should be allowed when the Sun provides more than enough.
Increase public possession limit to 1kg. I should not have to limit my purchase at the legal store to 30g.
Personal growing should be 4 plants/adult, not 4/household.
Encourage or incentivize inspection of indoor grows; must be up-to-code electrically, HVAC, etc.. Allow insurance to deny claims due to un-inspected grows. Problem will solve itself once enough house fire claims are denied. Sadly reactive, but a well-known tactic.
i wrote all the above while ~70% high. link to what thi emans.
i think it would be funny if they had a quaetuiona t the end that sadi “How high are you right now?”
