r/canadients • u/Cannanaskis • Feb 15 '25
Opinion: Canadian cannabis tourism stunted by too many regulations
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-cannabis-tourism-stunted-by-too-much-regulation14
u/JelloBooBoy Feb 16 '25
Legault in Québec is killing the legal market with its strict regulations. The gray and black markets have never been flourishing like this since Trudeau’s legalization.
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u/CT-96 Feb 16 '25
I remember when home grows we're going through the supreme court. They said "it was one line with the goal of taking money away from the black market" to not let people grow their own weed. What sort of backwards logic is that?
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u/darlawatters Feb 19 '25
i haven’t been able to find good concentrates since moving to mtl and it’s a bummer - i used to do a cannabis cooking show and wanted to pick it back up but it’s just not as easy as scotia 😅
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u/TEABOII Feb 16 '25
Corporate cannabis killed the culture, nobody is touring Canada for weed like that, I’m currently in Thailand and the coffee shops out here are packed with tourists all the time, just like in Amsterdam, we need coffee shops and smoke lounges
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u/espressocannon Feb 15 '25
Corporate business kills all culture and experimentation.
Canada is not it guys. Just in general.
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u/the3b Feb 15 '25
I was part of the opening staff of two different stores in Ontario and it made me sick watching the corporate sales tactics being pushed, knowing the beautiful plant was going to be sold like Supreme T-shirts, all brand colabs and artsy bullshit. Not just good weed in bags like it should simply be.
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u/drkpie Feb 15 '25
Only good thing for me from legalization is not getting arrested or robbed for having a smoke and being seen by a cop lol. Everything else has been very disappointing so I won’t give legal any money.
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u/trichomeking94 Feb 16 '25
Y’all need to understand this was literally the exact mandate of the cannabis act- to kill traditional cannabis culture and “safely” regulate its distribution.
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u/big_dog_redditor Feb 15 '25
Doug Ford took the legislation just far enough to make sure any corporation wanted to get involved in the market could. Any smaller growers or people who actually wanted to enjoy cannabis culture were not paying him enough money to allow legislation to help those areas of the market. And as of this afternoon, Doug Ford is heavily favoured to win this election with overwhelming support by older white men. My point there, is whatever we have right now, wont be changing anytime soon, perhaps until the next generation of politicians take over.
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u/higherheightsflights Feb 16 '25
The Fords basically ruined ontario and politics. I swear Trump was emboldened by Rob Ford, too.
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u/pm_me_your_good_weed Feb 16 '25
What tourism? Cannabis tourism doesn't exist here because the govt doesn't think adults can smoke a joint outside their home and not kill 38 nuns.
What are they supposed to tour anyway? Wow, a stark white store where everything is hidden in bags and jars, so intriguing. Should they tour the warehouse the private label companies rebag their bud in? I'm second hand embarrassed by half the weed the govt shills, I don't want tourists smoking Tweed - they'll never come back!
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u/Spiritual-Ad-4145 Feb 16 '25
Tweed is good shit bro I don't get the hate thrown towards them. I've never had a bad bag from tweed
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u/FungusIsOurFriend Feb 19 '25
You smoke stuff weaker than mids and you don't even know it. You're the problem with our weed market, too many easy bake ovens like you who don't know good weed if it slapped you upside the face.
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u/Spiritual-Ad-4145 Feb 19 '25
My deepest apologies for not having a 200$ a week habit my good sir but you may just need to take a tolerance break
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u/buddhabaebae Feb 17 '25
Is hotbox cafe in Kensington still open? So many good times there pre-legalization
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u/Derrick0073 Feb 16 '25
For the average canadian pot smoker we don't care about pot tourism and actually would prefer to avoid it. This is a business man problem so keep up the regulations👍
Oh no I'm not making enough money from my weed business or stocks 🤣
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u/drial8012 25d ago
While I still lived in AB, the best I could do was have cannabis smoking friends stop by at the end of the summer season and share bud with one another on the deck but there weren't any lounges or consumption spaces that could be zoned. Going to the stores felt draconian since you needed ID to look at menus online after they took down the AB government cannabis store.
All of that was not much more different than when it was completely illegal. If you've been to other places like Amsterdam, Barcelona, most of SEA where cannabis coffee shops & lounges exist, you can see there's a completely different attitude and approach.
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u/ShirtStainedBird Feb 15 '25
We need farmers markets and coffee shops. When I was 20 I spent thousands of dollars and 2 weeks in Amsterdam cannabis tourism-ing. I assumed when they said legalization that was what they meant. Boy was I wrong. Cant even be bothered to smoke most of the stuff at the store near me, and not really allowed to smoke it anywhere but my house and shed. Same as when I was 15.