Ontario's small cannabis retailers say new government regulation could push prices higher
Ontario's small cannabis retailers say new government regulation could push prices higher
Small cannabis retailers are calling on the Ontario government to reconsider recent changes to industry rules that some businesses fear could crush mom-and-pop operations in the province.
In a New Year’s Day regulation, the Ontario government increased the cap on the number of stores a licensed company can operate in the province from 75 to 150.
According to the province, the change was designed to “further support a healthy and competitive” cannabis industry in Ontario.
Independent retailers, however, fear the change will only benefit a select few businesses that are already beginning to dominate the fledgling cannabis industry.
Global’s Colin D’Mello has more.
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I’ve been paying $10 for a dimebag of weed my entire life. No inflation, no market fluctuations. Only after gov pokes its finger into the industry does the cancer begin. We can grow our own and pick-up from our personal dealers. Your "capitalism" will never infect this industry.
They’ll be closing shops because most of us will go back to our cheaper Street Vendors!
Feel sorry for the shop owners!..😔!
Ontario: Open for business? Open for monopolies.
For what matters, the whole “cannabis industry” could collapse…more over, I would be more than happy if all the stores close!! Better for the health of our people, especially the children who even if unintentionally, they are the most vulnerable to it!!
Candy Stores = CORRUPTION
LOL BRO ITS ALREADY 60% TAX WHAT A JOKE.
Money makers in Canada, Drugs and Carbon Tax, without them Canada can’t survive.
We need food, not cannabis or alcohol.
My scalp smells like Nito, the first of the dead.
The prices are already a state of gouging compared to legacy market.
You guys think it is cheap to keep refugees here, trudeau needs more money
Bring the prices to where they should be and maybe the people would buy the crap weed that the licensed market cells
Haha for the junk pot they sell ? Ya no thanks
I grow my four and when i am out I buy from my buddy 30$ a oz and 250 a pound most people sale it for that why go to a store when your friendly buddy puts the money back into the small mom and pop shops. big stores and government only use the money for them selfs
Longue vie à Mendo! 🙂
Sold richer people a buisness and crashes it like other country’s scamed farmers and jacked fertilizer… its all to regain money back to the gov and away from people
The more cannabis shops the more taxes the government collect.
Support your local drug dealer
another trudeau fail
Maybe Global News could figure out that if everyone, (not just government licensed companies), was allowed to grow their own marijuana, (like any other agricultural crop), the prices would plunge considerably. What the provincial and federal governments have done is create regulations that really only treat marijuana as a "recreational drug" ( as most alcohol is regulated as a beverage). Government taxes are what they are after. If I grew my own crop, it isn’t taxed. Imagine the nonsense if similar regulations restricted the sale of mushrooms, only allowing "magic mushrooms" to be grown and sold by licensed companies, heavily taxed, and severe penalties for anyone growing any other mushrooms or using them for food. Bureaucratic greed!
Getting the weed business out of local dealers hands one regulation at a time.
weed legalization was botched….. scrap it and start over…
Third-world China 🇨🇳 should look up to superpower Canada 🇨🇦 to learn how to become a mild-manner and open-minded nation.
Another Liberal success story LOL😂
Pot is SO EASY to grow, I don’t understand why people spend so much $$$ buying it when you can easily harvest a kilogram of bud from just $130 worth of seeds.
Close all those weed shops
also quit selling tasteless old lady oregano weed
Well I used to smoke lots of pot! But then covid 19 came along ! So as much as i tried to smoke a joint through my mask l could not get a toke i was just trying to keep us safe! Then my mask caught fire! Remember kids dope and covid 19 don’t mix god save us
Legal drugs is how you keep the population happy.
Good
a plant is getting expensive because its a plant ?? sue the scammers. they think they own nature what a noob
if u smoke weed uve lost at life
Walmart of cannabis! I disagree with all these stores opening up to smoke young people’s brains!
Black market is cheaper and better 😂
Only rookies buy gov weed .
It’s garbage .
Back to growing, it is then 😂