nir Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Government expected ‘a bit of a run on supply,’ MP says Canadians were so excited about getting their hands on some legal, recreational marijuana the country is reportedly experience a shortage. Police were called to help shops struggling to handle long queues and with frustrated people unable to buy cannabis. Bill Blair, a former Toronto police chief who has led the government's legalisation programme, told public broadcaster CBC the country was unable to supply enough to meet demand. “We expected, you know, certain strains might run out and there would be a bit of a run on supply,” he said. “But, you know, they've got a pretty good infrastructure in place and I'm confident it will work." On Wednesday Canada became the first industrialised nation and only the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to legalise recreational cannabis as part of a controversial experiment in drug policy. Under the new law, citizens will be allowed to carry up to 30 grams of cannabis in public and each household will be able to grow up to four marijuana plants. Medical marijuana has been legal in Canada since 2001, and Justin Trudeau’s government has spent two years working to expand that to include recreational use. According to Statistics Canada, 5.4 million Canadians will buy cannabis from legal dispensaries in 2018 – about 15 per cent of the population. Around 4.9 million already smoke. Vancouver-based Lift, a marijuana media platform in Vancouver, estimates Canada’s cannabis industry has enough funding to boost production of the combustible herb to between 400,000 and 500,000 kilograms a year. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch234 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 38 minutes ago, nir said: the country is reportedly experience a shortage If you can call it that. The problem is the way the product is sold. It's all prepackaged. So while you can still buy 15 gram sizes there's nothing else left. And the staff can't open a bigger package to split it to smaller quantities. They don't make deliveries to stock up the stores on weekends. They should have, considering how quickly the stuff is selling. 44 minutes ago, nir said: Under the new law, citizens will be allowed to carry up to 30 grams of cannabis in public and each household will be able to grow up to four marijuana plants. That's just a template. Provinces have a say on where you can smoke in public or grow it at home, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zadkiel Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 It won't work if other countries copy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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