Anyone should be able to open a business. It's up to them to make $$ to keep the doors open. Any that cant will fail just like any business. These licenses are a scam for the gov to make $$ at every step.
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An $89 Legal Oz
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Maple_Flail
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That is a little short on your time line. those stores in particular started popping up around 2015, maybe early 2016 when I noticed them, basically as soon as there was word of a federal program(meaning the MMAR shift to MMPR) I started looking for places and could definitely find some..(not that I wanted to pay those prices frequently) I'm sure if I was looking i could have found them earlier.
But that Queen w, scene was great for a couple years until the whac-a-mole turned into concrete traffic dividers being places in front of their business entrance doors, got kinda ugly after that. Even still, Oneida and Tyendinaga were running at that point and thier prices were worth the drive.
That was a Gov' back log to funnel sales to them which backfired and 80% just stayed black market.. that why they went hog wild with the approvals.
So far in this little town far from Queen W, only 2 maybe 3 shops have folded. Both seemingly for the same reason.. they both kept a short menu. The places that thrive have so many options so they appeal to every one and their price is reflective of that.. biggest inventory store gets away with 5%-10% higher prices than everyone else. some how holding that much stock and being able to move it frequently with only part time(or educational placement) employees is the way to make money.
Unfortunately the regulation doesn't really allow that.. it can, just the framework isn't in place. Also there is a quasi LCBO vibe to the distribution.. just because the store orders it doesn't mean they actually get it. so there might be an internal Hierarchy in the distribution, likely to do with who you have promotional deals with.
There is a need that is not being meet in Canada by any one source, the black and the grey market will continue to survive until those needs are available. I know this because I am constantly approached to make therapeutic edibles (i say therapeutic because of the ratio of cbd in the edibles) because the stuff in the legal stores isn't doing it and the distillate based stuff from the illegal shops just don't have 'legs' to use reliably as medication. I can also change up ratios on a per batch bases depending on my input material. this is something hard to find on any market.
And who might you be talking to?
Switcher56
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Don't worry he's just a disgruntled user. 
Maple_Flail
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and who would be paying me? the legal shops? LOL they barely make payroll. the REZs? not a hope they are going to agree on anything , different bands different plants none of which include some random farm boy whitey that isn't Banded.
its pretty clear my only allegiance is where the good stuff shows up at reasonable prices, from reasonable people.. that list clearly does not include you.
Oh wow $20 an ounce...I could swing that. You guys in Canada have it made with your mail-order buds. Anyone going to do it?
On the more expensive side, anyone remember Bud Buddy? I successfully got Bogglegum in the mail, 2005 or so. Also used Sandra Green back then...$90 a quarter and she would smush it into vacuum seal and send regular envelope. I was proud of myself. I got high. Those were the days. Now I go to the medical dispensary. Mostly bubblehash.
Thooooooose were the days....
On the more expensive side, anyone remember Bud Buddy? I successfully got Bogglegum in the mail, 2005 or so. Also used Sandra Green back then...$90 a quarter and she would smush it into vacuum seal and send regular envelope. I was proud of myself. I got high. Those were the days. Now I go to the medical dispensary. Mostly bubblehash.
Thooooooose were the days....
$24.99 . . . yeah, I will order that right away. I have never seen a weed rating of 'A' quality. 
And they have Chocolate Shroomicorns too!
And they have Chocolate Shroomicorns too!
Somatek
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I just had a flash back to ordering budder from Bud Buddy for something like 100+/g, then having to explain to everyone I wasn't smoking crack out of the oiler.
BroncosStrong
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As I recently made a drive from BC to Saskatchewan I saw a bud store on reserve land in BC that had an LED sign that said ’$50 Oz’….
We did have $20oz in 1970 lol. It was bottom of the barrel leaf weed.
prob had a few seeds in it toooo....
Yep, All imported weed seeds were used to grow our own. The building blocks of weed today.
regrettably all them oz's/pounds/kilos we bought, we never kept any seeds - back in the late 60's/early 70's growing was the last thing we were thinking... i blame it on the quaaludes .... all we wanted to do is get laid...
Cannabis back then was more personal, it was more about love and helping others. Getting laid was as easy as a walk in the park lol.. Growing weed was/is a huge part of life and friends. Today people are thinking about what will I get out of helping others. The closer it gets to being a fully legalized commodity the more bad people will get involved. I keep hoping the younger generation will see the benefits of lifting ea other up. That greed affects my generation as well. It's sad to see 60 year old men arguing over bruised egos. I blame it on the crappy reduced cannabinoids with high THC only people smoke today. Bring back those Sativa hybrids that had it all and were grown 95% of the time. I digress
yeah it was... and all u had to worry about is a case of the clap.. none of today's exotic diseases ....
lol, That was def not something any was thinking about.
$300 to $400 lbs were still available in Southern Colorado 15 years ago. Most was garbage but some of them were actually good weed. When they were good you had to grab them fast because they were not going to last.
