Talking to them Trout, is like banging your head against the wall. Anyone who thinks we live in a democracy, has been sparking too much!
News reports are saying that Canadians are running out of pot even with the high prices.
What rec weed turns out to be? I don't think we know yet. Medical weed wasn't really an indicator of production methods over a much, much broader recreational supply where competition is very real.
And that recreational supply has not yet hits its stride where the LPs know and can predict with a high degree of accuracy all consumption patterns over the course of a year. They just don't know. And until they do, production methods will continue to be rushed, unpredictable and beyond their normalized parameters.
So it's somewhere between a panic and a clusterfuck of HOLY SHIT!! incompetence, and that is likely to be the case for at least the next 18 months -- and probably even longer than that.
Satisfying a Mass Market takes historical data and practice. And they don't have any of either. Doesn't mean that they won't get both; they will. But they don't have it just yet. Nobody does.
We also don't know what the market does and does not want. But we have a good idea from the legal US states. Edibles will be in demand, distillate will be immensely popular -- and vape pens and cartridges will fly off the shelves.
And yes, Big Corporate Weed does distillate better than small producers. That's the nature of the technology behind CO2 extraction.
As Big Corp Weed moves to distillate and edibles/drinkables, we'll see more smaller growers try to get their slice of the dried flower pie. Yes, there will be connoisseur weed. How much and at what price -- grown and harvested/processed in what precise manner? We don't know, but it probably looks a lot more like current black market weed and a lot less like flash dried and irradiated LP weed than it does now.
I do know this: at this stage, I don't trust legal weed reviews by anybody I don't personally know, face to face. I don't even trust them from longtime cannabis users on this site; because I have seen time-and-time-again, those same users online slag any and all corporate weed for the briefest and most minor of offences. And one corporation is the same as another to them. They have a philosophy -- and that philosophy does not allow for corporate weed.
I don't need to read somebody's smoke report to suspect the validity of their views is dominated by ideology. I have seen that already both here and on reddit. (Sorry)
But, at some point, the hysteria and biases will calm down and the true opinions will begin to predominate -- and we'll have a better idea of what legal weed is worth buying, if any is.
The other thing I know is that competently harvested and cured, legal home grown rec dried flower (which technically doesn't even exist yet in Canada and won't until licit cannabis seeds are for sale, somewhere in Canada) will always be better than all but the Tip-Toppest Top Shelf there is in a legal market.
So I think I'll grow some.
That is total bullshit about only allowing seeds to be bought legally that can be grown. Anyone can make seeds and grow them. Seeds from almost any plant are legally allowed to be rebred/make your own seeds. At some point that lunacy will be changed.
Like i said, ridiculous.
I've never followed pot laws, and not about to start now, especially when I have hundreds/thousands of excellent seeds, some of them very unique.
I agree , and I heard on tv news the other night, the federal gov...wants to peg the price of their "legal cannabis" at $10-$13 a gram, they also want to charge $1 a gram for what they call "access tax"...wtf is that...
I'm for making it, at the least, ostensibly legal. I want Buddy Whatshisname to be able to grow his 4 plants in the backyard with no fear.