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    Free market medical marijuana for Canada

    The Conservative government is launching a $1.3-billion free market in medical marijuana on Tuesday, eventually providing an expected 450,000 Canadians with quality weed.

    Health Canada is phasing out an older system on Monday that mostly relied on small-scale, homegrown medical marijuana of varying quality, often diverted illegally to the black market.

    In its place, large indoor marijuana farms certified by the RCMP and health inspectors will produce, package and distribute a range of standardized weed, all of it sold for whatever price the market will bear. The first sales are expected in the next few weeks, delivered directly by secure courier...

    Veterans Affairs Canada currently pays for medical marijuana for some patients, even though the product lacks official drug status. Some provinces are also being pressed to cover costs, as many users are too sick to work and rely on welfare.
    $1.3B medical marijuana free market coming to Canada - CBC News

    So Health Canada projects that this will initially raise the cost for patients, but eventually drive costs down through competition (or so it's projected). The problem is that the cottage industry allowed patients to grow their own relatively free of cost, which will no longer be an option. Yes, the cottage industry was abused and pot ended up being illegally sold. But if someone with a prescription is using several grams a day and each gram under this free market system is expected to cost $5/gram instead of free? Most of the users are unemployed due to chronic pain or terminal illness. Where are they going to get $30-50/day? Then you have to wonder what the costs on government will be compared to current policing of private growers to the expected certifications, registrations, inspections, so forth.

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    Banning the growth of a plant that is indigenous, is on the face it, completely illogical and furthermore, to increase the cost of the use of that same plant to people suffering from all manner of illness, who minimally could benefit from the prophylactic use of that plant is cruel. I don't understand why getting high from alcohol is acceptable but to get high from anything else that doesn't come from a pharmaceutical company is not. It is on the very face of it, pandering to corporate interests. There are plants on the planet that address almost all of the aliments known to man and yet the marijuana plant, which has some amazing curative properties, is illegal because it can be grown and processed by the average citizen.
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    Managed markets are not free markets. Sounds like the government is setting regulatory requirements so high and prices so high only large companies can farm the marijuana.

    Similar is happening here in the medical durable goods industry. CMS which runs Medicare has set up competitive bidding areas with regulatory reuirements so high but prices so low only large companies can win contracts, thereby putting mom and pops out of business.

    Just another example of what government does so well, corporatism, i.e., crony capitalism.
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    It is time for the corporate supercapitalists to stop with this nonsense about competition bringing down prices. This is no longer a myth but an obvious lie.

    Competition in western style capitalism can only lead to monopolization and price fixing. Chinese culture will counter this nonsense as we enter the Asian Century. China is leading the fight against western supercapitalist flim flam. You can see it with the CPC catching out western pharma corps for the bribes and price fixing that is accepted and legal in the west.

    And pot grows in the ground. I am sure any person that really needs pot can just grow some if the supercapitalists make it too expensive.

    It grows in the ground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Managed markets are not free markets. Sounds like the government is setting regulatory requirements so high and prices so high only large companies can farm the marijuana.

    Similar is happening here in the medical durable goods industry. CMS which runs Medicare has set up competitive bidding areas with regulatory reuirements so high but prices so low only large companies can win contracts, thereby putting mom and pops out of business.

    Just another example of what government does so well, corporatism, i.e., crony capitalism.
    Small scale growers are jumping at the chance to create farms which will be lucrative - so no, it's not just for big corporations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Small scale growers are jumping at the chance to create farms which will be lucrative - so no, it's not just for big corporations.


    Delayed response!

    Last night, NatGeo's Drugs Inc, think it was they showed how some state, Oregon??, has legalized medical marijuana and allowed for legal farmer's markets like operations to form to sell it. It was small local farmers who used the market, and business was thriving. Apparently though, the state has or is legalizing recreational use. They showed some guy who calls himself the Bill Gates of the marijuana industry and has plans to make billions, and then showed small scale farmers complaining against legalizing recreational use because large corporations would move in on it and put them out of business. With the economic crisis and government needing revenues, I still think this is bound to be what happens and wouldn't doubt big government and big business colluding behind the scenes. They both stand to gain tremendously.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Delayed response!

    Last night, NatGeo's Drugs Inc, think it was they showed how some state, Oregon??, has legalized medical marijuana and allowed for legal farmer's markets like operations to form to sell it. It was small local farmers who used the market, and business was thriving. Apparently though, the state has or is legalizing recreational use. They showed some guy who calls himself the Bill Gates of the marijuana industry and has plans to make billions, and then showed small scale farmers complaining against legalizing recreational use because large corporations would move in on it and put them out of business. With the economic crisis and government needing revenues, I still think this is bound to be what happens and wouldn't doubt big government and big business colluding behind the scenes. They both stand to gain tremendously.
    Typical. Big pharma can't be far behind.
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    Right behind big government.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Right behind big government.
    Drugs and crime go together so well!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Drugs and crime go together so well!
    Especially when you criminalize them.

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