Some small cannabis retailers in Ontario fear an increase in the cap on stores in the province could benefit a few big companies at the expense of the majority.
Source: New Ontario cannabis rules could have ‘Amazon effect’ on industry | Globalnews.ca
Summary by ChatGPT:
- Government rules favoring small operations: Propose regulations limiting cannabis businesses to small-scale, “mom & pops,” without franchise models, and potentially restricting the number of operations per entity.
- Clean and regulated cannabis production: Advocate for legislation ensuring clean cultivation practices, including growing only outdoors or in greenhouses and prohibiting the use of harmful chemicals. Emphasize lot# tracking for transparency.
- Opposition to profit-driven motives: Express concerns about prioritizing business interests over other considerations, highlighting potential missed efficiencies in favor of clean operations.
- Cooperative model consideration: Explore the idea of a cooperative or collective approach to the marijuana industry, similar to cooperative apartment buildings, facing challenges related to funding and stakeholder incentives.
- Skepticism about feasibility: Express doubt about the practicality of such proposals, anticipating potential opposition from business interests and being dismissed in parliament.
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could the governement set the rules such that only small operations, “mom & pops” can exist. no allowing loopholes like using the fraqchnise model (as article mentions). or just make it 1 per person/llc/company. yes, trhis maens some efficieicies aree missed, but i say this is a prodcut with such huge profit margins
just liek the liegislation could havge been written that only growing allowed outdoors under sunchsine or greenhouses, no “bad” checmicals in the growing or processsing, like a real clean operation. i do bveleive the lgel markey is cleaner or at least should be and shoudl be verifiablke via lot# trackng (but what exactly is this mean? i assume veeryt lot is trackable for the seed to the weed, including testing for “bad”c things.
this if couyrse will sound stupid to the modern business man. thuis would be fought agsint by the bussinisee interests. but is thatg really what it always has to be about? business interest qat all cost? it’s like the john oliver story on trains (23nd moention of this, and need to check it that episoide is avail yet)
ideal opportuniuty too, with trudeua could have done a whole hippy organic thing. brand new industry (if you ignore the one that was functioning at a very high level before legalization.
or could it be done as a coop thing somehow. like the idea of coop or collective aparment building and shuch; no prifit motive, just the stakeholders shgaring costs of maintenance and upgrading and etc. but where’s the moeny to be made will be the argument. why would banks lend money to build the thing or buy it when there’s nothing to be gained foir them.
i suspect it’s just not possible. laughed out of parliment to even suggest such a thing.
