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flakeloaf posted:OPSEU says the LCBO already has plenty of experience and secure infrastructure to handle legal marijuana sales in Ontario. This is for no other reason than to secure more jobs for opseu
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# ? May 14, 2024 02:23 |
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its a terrible idea to sell weed and liquor in the same place
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:21 |
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How the hell is chrystia freeland on bill maher
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:27 |
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RBC posted:its a terrible idea to sell weed and liquor in the same place Why? Of course they should be sold at the same place, and that place should be every corner store and grocery, because we're adults who can make our own choices about what to consume.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:34 |
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:42 |
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Ontario gets 2 billion a year from our liquor monopoly. Wynne will definitely fight to sell weed through LCBO. Helps pump up the value for when they sell it off too.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:43 |
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PT6A posted:Why? Of course they should be sold at the same place, and that place should be every corner store and grocery, because we're adults who can make our own choices about what to consume. It's a horrible, horrible idea to mix consumption for starters.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:45 |
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welp.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:55 |
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Unironically agreeing with PT6A at least insofar as Quebec has corner stores that sell booze and smokes, and (big) grocery stores have pharmacies with over-the-counter-medication sections and also sell sugar/garbage food and drinks that people consume irrationally. Betting Loblaws would probably love to sell weed to people in the same store visit that they are picking up their munchies. Talk about synergy.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:56 |
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Rime posted:It's a horrible, horrible idea to mix consumption for starters. Oh, trust me, I learned that lesson by myself quite a long time ago. That doesn't mean they can't or shouldn't sell them at the same place, because just because you buy something doesn't mean you're immediately going to use it. It's the same reason I find the idea of service hours for liquor stores to be absurd. EDIT: Same thing with drive-thru liquor stores. It seems funny, but it's no more dangerous than any other form of liquor distribution. Like people can't have a roadie if they park the car and actually walk inside of the liquor store first, or something... PT6A fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Nov 22, 2015 |
# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:56 |
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Is it bad that the first thought that popped into my head is "What did the RCMP set up this time?"
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 16:58 |
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Furnaceface posted:Is it bad that the first thought that popped into my head is "What did the RCMP set up this time?" A little. Means you are turning into rime. I just know I am gonna get emails blaming refugees for this.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 17:02 |
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Kenny Logins posted:Unironically agreeing with PT6A at least insofar as Quebec has corner stores that sell booze and smokes, and (big) grocery stores have pharmacies with over-the-counter-medication sections and also sell sugar/garbage food and drinks that people consume irrationally. Pcpoints: Buy 1oz of weed and get 50% off your corresponding Doritos purchase
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 18:10 |
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Rime posted:It's a horrible, horrible idea to mix consumption for starters. How so? I mean sure you get completely hosed up but I don't see how the health effects are any different than doing the substances separately. If people want to get hosed up on weed and booze I don't really see how that's the governments problem
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 20:42 |
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A Typical Goon posted:How so? I mean sure you get completely hosed up but I don't see how the health effects are any different than doing the substances separately. If people want to get hosed up on weed and booze I don't really see how that's the governments problem We can also put warning labels on marijuana packages or liquor bottles that say that combining the two will get you really, unpleasantly intoxicated if you aren't careful, just as the government is wont to remind me that cigarettes are dangerous and addictive and I'm a bad person for smoking in the car or something.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 20:54 |
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Looks like Ms. Wynne and the Ontario Liberal spin doctors are at it again! Big Booze and the OLP Pot-sticklers to sell combined Marijalcohol to leave thousands of honest Ontarians with the spins! Shame on the OLP, Ontario founder Chester Ontario is sure to be left spinning - in his grave!
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 20:57 |
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angerbeet posted:Looks like Ms. Wynne and the Ontario Liberal spin doctors are at it again! Big Booze and the OLP Pot-sticklers to sell combined Marijalcohol to leave thousands of honest Ontarians with the spins! Shame on the OLP, Ontario founder Chester Ontario is sure to be left spinning - in his grave! I had to check three times to make sure it was not itkansti. Then again you could replace my posts with a Markov chain of "Trudeau Good gently caress" ......OK let me rephrase that "trudeau loving good"
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:00 |
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I don't really like the idea of the government having a profit based incentive to harass pot growers or sellers. Decriminalization is good but imposing a restrictive government monopoly isn't. I really hope that legalization involves letting people grow their own stuff instead of cracking down harder than ever on growers to protect government or private corporate interests,
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:17 |
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yeah, maybe pot growing can be the new "craft brewing" industry or instead of people owning and running vineyards they do that with weed farms instead. Frequent use of "job creators" and "small business" abound for the legislation, with a slightly less focus on the "middle class"
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:20 |
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Grats on your carbon tax, PT6A.quote:Alberta’s new climate-change plan will introduce a carbon tax for all individuals, phase out coal pollution and plants by 2030, set a greenhouse-gas-emissions cap on oilsands production and pump money back into the pockets of Albertans and businesses to help with the transition. http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...sands-emissions
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:30 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Grats on your carbon tax, PT6A. I can't wait to read Albertans CBC article comments over this.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:33 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Grats on your carbon tax, PT6A. I'm just glad those cunts finally found something else to tax apart from my loving liquor, to be real honest with you. I don't drive much and my electricity bills are very reasonable, so I'm not particularly fussed by this, all things considered. I wish nuclear power was a part of their plan, but I knew it wouldn't be owing to Rachel Notley being congenitally loving retarded. I also think it's loving retarded that's it's revenue-neutral. gently caress that; we need money, we're introducing a tax, why then go gently caress our own asses by giving away money elsewhere? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:47 |
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Helsing posted:I don't really like the idea of the government having a profit based incentive to harass pot growers or sellers. Decriminalization is good but imposing a restrictive government monopoly isn't. I really hope that legalization involves letting people grow their own stuff instead of cracking down harder than ever on growers to protect government or private corporate interests, Hahah we all loving know what's going to happen Liberals gonna liib
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:48 |
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Helsing posted:I don't really like the idea of the government having a profit based incentive to harass pot growers or sellers. Decriminalization is good but imposing a restrictive government monopoly isn't. I really hope that legalization involves letting people grow their own stuff instead of cracking down harder than ever on growers to protect government or private corporate interests, Hasn't that always been more or less the political endgame with marijuana? Sell it so you can tax it?
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:53 |
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Slightly Toasted posted:Hasn't that always been more or less the political endgame with marijuana? Sell it so you can tax it? I certainly think so. The government shouldn't "harass" growers or sellers, just make sure that they're paying the taxes and following (hopefully minimally-restrictive) rules. It's like having a still in your house; you probably won't be bothered if it's just for personal use, but you're still breaking the law.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 21:57 |
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I hope and suspect that in BC at least the current dispensaries will be grandfathered into whatever new distribution scheme they enact.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 22:02 |
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Slightly Toasted posted:Hasn't that always been more or less the political endgame with marijuana? Sell it so you can tax it? Tax it has kill a bunch of semi-organized crime off. We are going to have to kill a bunch of prision sentences however.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 22:31 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:A little. Means you are turning into rime. I just know I am gonna get emails blaming refugees for this. That is kind of what I meant but yeah, I dont want to be rime.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 22:37 |
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sbaldrick posted:Tax it has kill a bunch of semi-organized crime off. This post looks suspiciously as if it's written in English, but looking closely, it's actually not.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 22:40 |
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My first thought was "Some retard teenagers / redneck bigot really hosed up this time. Alberni, what a shithole, why am I not surprised." So don't worry, you're not turning into me.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 22:45 |
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Rime posted:My first thought was "Some retard teenagers / redneck bigot really hosed up this time. Alberni, what a shithole, why am I not surprised." That's what I thought, though, so it's still possible you're turning into me.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:05 |
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Ladies, ladies, you're both awful.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:09 |
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Rime posted:My first thought was "Some retard teenagers / redneck bigot really hosed up this time. Alberni, what a shithole, why am I not surprised." If your first thought after hearing about a pipe-bomb being left in someone's driveway is Islamic terrorism, you obviously haven't lived in North America for as long as you think you have.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:10 |
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Slightly Toasted posted:Hasn't that always been more or less the political endgame with marijuana? Sell it so you can tax it? I can't speak for others but I mostly support changing the law to reduce the power of the police and also because its a cruel and stupid waste of resources to prosecute people for smoking pot. Taxes don't actually finance government spending so while I'm willing to tolerate user fees and sin taxes up to a point I don't actually think they make very much economic sense, except insofar as the reigning economic orthodoxy would punish us for not pretending that government spending needs to follow the same logic as household spending.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:17 |
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angerbeet posted:Ladies, ladies, you're both awful. Rime turning into me? Y'all should be so lucky! PS: these are not my preferred pronouns!
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:22 |
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I'm not a pot user either, but I support its legalization insofar as it removes bullying power from the police, which is disproportionately used on minorities as a veil for discrimination -- while politically favoured groups can commit the same "crime" over and over, getting off scot-free each time. It's one of those things where if it is truly impossible for us to do it fairly, then we shouldn't really be doing it at all. I'm somewhat saddened that particular aspect of pot legalization hasn't really gotten much airtime. It would logically follow that users in support of legalization would be a larger voting bloc, but if the Liberals were to take the social justice aspect of it more, they could frame legalization as a principled choice; the right thing to do. In lack of that, it would follow that they're getting accused of pandering/enabling by moral alarmists. (However, given the way the right wing media have been acting lately, that probably would've happened regardless.)
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:31 |
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List the number of successful convictions in the last 10 years for growing pot for personal use. I guarantee you police do not give a flying gently caress.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:39 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:List the number of successful convictions in the last 10 years for growing pot for personal use. I guarantee you police do not give a flying gently caress. Police responded to a report of a break in near one of my old neighbour's house and while checking out the area they hopped the low fence into his very visible field of pot and tomatoes. They gave a quick search looking for anything the prowler might have dropped and left, no fucks given to the backyard pot plantation.
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# ? Nov 22, 2015 23:50 |
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Baronjutter posted:Police responded to a report of a break in near one of my old neighbour's house and while checking out the area they hopped the low fence into his very visible field of pot and tomatoes. They gave a quick search looking for anything the prowler might have dropped and left, no fucks given to the backyard pot plantation. In BC I could see this happening. Here in Ontario it would be a whole different story.
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Lo and behold spurious arguments against a non existent war on drugs in Canada But guys this is the most fascinating public policy issue of the millennia
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