Legalized Pot to be $10 a gram

>Legalized Pot to be $10 a gram
>Each gram will be taxed $1
>Available for purchase July 2018

How dumb is the Weed Man?

thestar.com/news/canada/2017/12/11/legalized-pot-to-cost-10-a-gram-finance-ministers-say.html

Is that expensive? I don't do drugs because I decided to have a job and a family instead.

Nah that's pretty fair for a g depending on the strain

it's not unreasonable for quality w33d

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that seems like reasonable pricing. Weed man needs to legalize and tax weed. Otherwise the economy is going straight into the shitter.

t. former weed fag.

Thats about street price here for primo weed.

fair play bro, i can't imagine not ever using any sort of stimulant.

are you mormon?

Your loss. I'm marrying 5 lbs next thursday. We're gonna have a bunch of baby lids together. Gonna be a lit senpai.

lol pham is now word filtered

okay

>now
Hownu.ru

>legal weed
>set price
>higher than illegal
Smart, buy illegal, say it was legal. Will be easy to fake.

Yeah so we have
10$ a gram
Olus 10% federal excise tax
11$ a gram.
Then when you buy it you will pay our 13% HST
12.43$ per gram. Base price. Premium weeds to cost more. Dude weed. Lol who the fuck is going to buy this shit other than for the novelty? You can buy a quarter on the street for like 40$ of high grade.

This. this is only a 10% tax on weed which will be thrown towards shitskins but ya know after they're out it will be put to use.

Pham

The street weed we have here is pretty much all high grade kush now, you never see the china buds or mexibricks here in ontario. It's all high quality kush not sure why anyone would pay the government price when you can get it for 150 an ounce.

>Premium weeds to cost more
It shouldn't. You're talking about more than 300 an oz. Prices haven't been like that for some time.

How the fuck did it get so cheap up there?

how much is 1g on the street then?

here you get 5g for 500kr which is like 60 dollars

Does this kill the cartels?

Artificial price structure = fail.

>china buds
>asain carp
>real estate wreckers

holy fuck asia sucks lmao

Fucking newfag, you disgust me

Youre allowed to have 4 plants. You dont gotta buy shit.

Couldn't be more wrong, Achmed. It will be probably cheaper to buy the legal and all the meme americans that move to Canada will only buy legal.

It has been steadily declining for years and years. My dealer has 4-5 different strains of high grade kush to choose from at 150 an ounce, 80 a half, and 40 a quarter. Plus if you buy a half or more he straight up gives you a cookie he baked or a free joint. WHo the fuck is going to pay the dispensaries 15 bucks a gram basically with no volume discounts?

Should be taxing it 30%

That would be $8 a gram in USD. That's $224 an ounce which is about 25% cheaper than I'm paying now on the black market, but my guy won't meet up for less than a half. Not sure how much it goes for in other legalized locations.

Here in Newfoundland it's 10$ a gram pretty much.
Depending on who you're getting from, the more you buy the cheaper she'll be.

Weed has always been ridicuolously expensive in the US for some reason. I guess your country just doenst want you stoned and pacfied all the time

Well I drink beer and coffee.

I've been out of the game for awhile now but back before CO legalization, midwest was doing $20/g kek

Still don't think that's gone down a whole lot.

Get out.

I pay 200 an oz. for medical quality shit from Cali. My guy also has oil vape cartridges for 20 and all kinds of edibles. This is in NC by the way. Who needs a fucking dispensary?

>get sick of pot
>hate how much it costs
>stop buying it, plan on going cold turkey
>"oh hey user me and him are growing plants and we have a shit ton sitting around, so have a big bag for free"
>i've been getting free weed for over a year now
>barely had the willpower to stop when it was expensive, not a chance i'll be able to quit when i have a virtually unlimited supply

i usually get an eighth for about $20
oregon

>this is the agreed price between federal and provincial governments
I’m starting to think /pol doesn’t know how Canadian politics work.

All the normie retards I know who smoke pot are too stupid, disorganized, and broke all the time to manage dropping $150 to get a good deal on good product. They end up nickel and dimebaging away whatever part of their paycheck they didn't blow on Starbucks, captain morgan, and kale.

If they were in Canada, they'd probably be pumped about this.

>/pol
I'm beginning to think you're new here

I pay around 150e for 100g, granted it's not medical shit but it does the job very well. And it's easy as fuck to get the money back.

its a fair price.

That actually is smart. Most people don't want to do business with weirdos. Let's take an examplefrom my country. Alcohol in stores is expensive here. It's twice as expensive as in Estonia and more than 10 times more expensive than homebrew. Still people buy it (mostly) from the stores instead of bootleggers. Some even buy it more expensively from the bars.

The retail store version of X will always be more popular than homemade version of X regardless of the price or quality. This is because people don't trust poorly packed amateurish products. They also don't want to risk being scammed or robbed. Therefore they rather buy X from legal retailer.

Hence, the illegal market would eventually die out and it would be replaced by more expensive legal market. (If the legal market is kept expensive.)

Maybe just maybe I can restore my faith in humanity.
Justin Trudeau did a good thing.

both of those are drugs you retard alcohol is worse than weed it's literally the blue pill.

It's a fair price and it's coming out as promised, what exactly did he fuck up here?

nuffin he did a good job on this.

BC grows tons, I used to smoke weed and I would buy an oz. for $140 a few years ago. That is $110 american

>what exactly did he fuck up here?

how much will it cost to administer the program ? Paperwork, licsensing, government reports n sheeet ?

Its 10-15 dollars per gram in California with a 35% tax. He's not taxing it enough, fucking retard.

it can be offset by 1$ in taxation per sale.
it is actually a good strat Also you can make paper from weed.

Why is it planned pricing though? Why not just 'legalize it' and put an excise tax on it at whatever price some can/wants to sell it at?

It's a fair price, but it's stupid to assume you can maintain the same price without any level of adjustment. They should go as low as possible and increase it the cost of selling it exceeds the revenue.
Wages are going to go up, more stores are going to pop up, prices are going to inflate.

That 1$ will quickly go to 10$

We have a minister that takes care of gambling and alcohol, it's under their administration.

I should rather say ''regulation''

lol you fucking idiot

>10 bucks a gram firms
I can get it for $6 bucks a gram down at the Mall, Ricky.

whiter than you...Muhammad

Paperwork, licsensing, government reports
>These are the things that make the EU so successful

You can have bodies which regulate these things without fixing their prices.

We already did that. State owned pot. So progressive.

not in Canada I'm afraid, we've got fixed price for almost anything you consume, milk, gas, beer, you name it. People throw a hissy fit when price get unusually high.

tfw weed will never be that cheap here

I'm a leaf (can't find the flag yet) Right now I can grab 4 grams for $20 or an 1/8th in one of 100 unauthorized pot shops in my city. The most expensive is about $8 a gram. These prices are obviously not hurting anyone's bottom line. Trudeau is on crack if he thinks his rates are going to work. I will never pay $11

But why make it a fixed price? What if someone wants some super high quality stuff, but nobody's willing to grow it because they can't sell it at a premium price? What if someone ends up with a batch that didn't turn out as high quality as the rest of their product? They can't sell it for the fixed price, which nobody will buy it at, and they aren't allowed to discount it, so they can't sell it at all.

I think the price fixing will yield worse results for the consumers, and might even give the illegal market a reason to still exist.

> cold turkey from weed

what are you? a meme?

For all the shit he's done to our country he goddamn better legalize fucking weed. I feel like I'll need some to get through the years ahead

this. What the fuck is this weed price fixing jewery?

It's going into the shitter anyway. Especially with all the shitskins he's importing

Not to mention the fact that (I may be wrong) I'm pretty sure the black market would still be able to just out compete the legal one.

Your dealer sounds like a great guy

we gonna have some prenium shit over here, all flavors for the same price, its goberment grew and distributed, I know it's a hard concept for you burgers because you imagine people opening stores and shit but it won't be like that over here.

You guys have been saying that for so long its retarded. I have never met anyone who does drugs that is living a remotely successful life. They are usually liquor store clerks or have three degrees and work at a call center.

Bud has so much fertilizer and pesticide it makes your nutsack shrink

This is just Canada's all out war on the small business. Weed right now is run by small operations, the gov't decided to put everyone out of business and hand it over to large corporations. The gov't love large corps, everybody gets taxed and regulated. Globalist swine who want to transform canada into a sort of marxist corptocracy.

>preferring knatched garbage from muhammed
never change, sweden

You've got a point. Small businesses should be able to buy licenses to sell

yup, legal weed is basically walmart weed. It's needs to get legal to the point where small people can sell it farmers market style.

>government legalizes weed
>government sets the price
>government adds 'tax' to set price.
Socialised weed.

Let's see how that turns out.

I'm curious how this is gonna turn bad, please enlight me mister american.

It's going on in all sectors of the economy, more rules and regulations therefore pushing out small players. Been going on for 20 yrs, trudeaus bankers told him time for them to cash in on marijuana as well.

Thats still cheaper than what we get here

In helsinki area you can get up to 30 euros a gram for weed

If you're getting it cheaper than 20 euros a gram you're getting good price

>obamacare for your weed
>not going to turn out bad
are leafs just shitposters or are they actually mentally handicapped?

These are huge corps that are producing...I drive by one frequently...about the size of 4 walmarts....disgusting.

>$10 a gram

fucking nope, looks like I won't be giving a shit about legal weed

Can someone explain to me why the legal pot market sets prices anywhere near the black market?

It's a fucking plant, the reason it costs $10 a gram is because it's ilegal.

The legal market shouldn't be anywhere near this but because of the greedy fucking state, it will forever be artificially priced.

Cilantro does not cost $10/gram, and you can buy shitty legal vodka for less than moonshine.

>say you want to end the black market drug trade
>make legal weed cost more than black market weed

>30 euros a gram for weed

no wonder why you guys drink battery acid or whatever to pass the time

Sure, and when the government weed isn't as good as what the weed fanatics are growing in their basement, people won't want to buy it. Then, in order to 'continue combating the black market', they'll lower the fixed price. Except the people who want high quality weed aren't interested in the lower price...they want that good shit, so it won't work. But in order to lower the price, the government will have to either eat loss on the product (negating the tax revenue) or cut costs, making their problem worse.

Or, the government can try to hire the best possible growers and make the best possible weed out there. In that situation, the purchasers concerned about cost will go to the black market and buy the illegal weed, because it will be cheaper.

That's the problem with price fixing. The free market can meet the demands of those seeking quality and those seeking price simultaneously. The price fixed market has to pick one, in which case the illegal market will choose to specialize in the other.

senpai pham

it depends on the quality. $10 a gram is fair for top quality weed even when taking into account economy of scale etc

the markup on alcohol and cigarettes is much greater

there's nothing even remotely comparable here, what was fucked with obamacare was the fact that this shit didn't actually give you any form of free healthcare, it just forced a bunch of idiots to take a life insurance without choice, and that's so much not the fucking case, look at our lottery, it's nationalised, that's gonna be the same for weed, stop being a fucking burger.

>paying 11$+ for poison irradiated LP GMO shwag

Glad I dont own any of that shitty LP stock

fellow newf, how's she cuttin b'y?

People do it where I am. Street price has steadily declined for last 5 years to literally half what it was and yet you still have retards that go to a dispensary and pay 60-70 for an 8th three times a week.

the black market simply cannot compete with the price of the government, which are ridiculously low, doing black market at an even lower price is just doing it for fun at that point. And yes we've been told we'll get the good shit and I absolutely have no worry about that. Fuck what Joey being spraying with windex in his wardrobe.

It wont.
It will dry up. Even if it costs a little more. The legal shops will have better, lab verified products that you can buy out in the open without fear or getting arrested. The quality will be better, the experiance will be better, and dealers worth a shit will go legit to capitalize on being able to operate like real business.

Black market will collapse. Their will be a small niche of weedfags who still buy illegally to feel like badasses but thats it. People selling illegal weed will either get liscensed or switch drugs.

>you still have retards that go to a dispensary and pay 60-70 for an 8th three times a week
what they're really paying for is the piece of mind that they won't get ripped off by some shady character

It's 100 a quarter, 60 an eighth in non legal areas here.

God, they can't even legalize something right.

If you're going to legalize it, just legalize it. Don't spend a bunch of money growing a big bureaucracy to supervise the industry. Don't make a new special tax for it. It's a fucking plant. Just let people grow it and sell it. Take off all the restrictions so we can grow hemp again, a basic fiber crop since ancient times that's been denied to us in this insane war over the botanical equivalent of solvent huffing.

What's really fucking offensive about this is that they're doing all this shit, they're having this bureaucratic garbage, and then they're putting a lower tax on it than there is on alcohol and cigarettes. It's not based on some honest recognition and rational response to the reality that they've been interfering too much in our lives and we should have more freedom. They're just compromising between buying votes and horning in on criminal profits.