Day 1: Not a Legal Cannabis Seed for Sale in Canada, Anywhere.

[Switcher56]

Why is it folks hate healthy competition?

 

[troutman]

Why is it folks hate healthy competition?

It all comes down to greed.

People with money and power pay lawyers to come up with stupid laws to restrict everything.

Then when somebody with little money tries to do anything they reach a roadblock.

Do you know how many people that worked in politics, Government, police, etc. are getting into Cannabis?

A lot.

I'm surprised growing vegetables and fruit isn't a restricted activity.

 

[Limeygreen]

A lot of import laws are in place for a reason. People import as they wish because it's a great variety etc but don't want to pay for paperwork or because they just think it's not a big deal. That's how we got the emerald ash borer (wood pallets, who cares), what about european canker into apple trees, Asian carp, pine beetle etc. The fact is the seeds or plant materials could have a pest, it's eggs, disease etc on it. Do I think it's a big for some things, not really but the rules are put there because someone either doesn't care so they do what like they to save some money and time or because someone is just ignorant to the consequences.

That being said I think there should be things set up where someone can register to be phytosanitary on lots of seed say then export to any country it's legal, work in the price to the seeds and over hundreds of orders the cost is reclaimed. I doubt that is a reality though, I don't believe the laws will work like that or the cost would be too high. Seed brokers like days of old would be great, where is Red when you need him?

 

[troutman]

How many vegetable and flowers seeds are sold online and shipped Worldwide with no restrictions?
You don't see Health Canada stopping that do you? Even if a seed bank in another country had all
their cannabis seeds tested the Canadian government would still put their nose into things.

Who the hell wants to buy seeds from an LP or it's facilitators?

Not everybody wants to grow the same stuff.

 

[Dankwolf]

In case you went looking in any of the provinces online and physical stores today, the same discovery will meet your investigation no matter where you look.

There is not a legal cannabis seed anywhere in Canada for sale. Not one.

The reported reason for this? The LPs have not made seeds available to the provinces for sale "as yet".

Now, this should not be a surprise. The LPs, who have been tasked with the exclusive right to breed, grow and sell cannabis seeds to the provincial distributors for resale have not made ONE SINGLE SEED available for sale on Legalization day. Why? There is nothing in it for them in terms of profit. There are only losses. They want customers in line to buy weed, not seed.

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While it is true that it takes longer for seed plants to mature than a plant rushed through flower, it's not THAT much longer. They have had time. More than enough time. They just don't see it is as a priority. There is not enough profit in it. Not even close to enough. Every seed sold cannibalizes into their profit from selling flower. Not just to the grower, but to the growers' friends and family, too.

If you are a LP in Canada, you don't want to sell seeds. You want to sell dope. And you don't particularly want anybody else to sell seeds, either.

Now, for those wondering "Who cares, I'll just use this that and the other seed from any 1 of 400 online seed sellers worldwide", here's the catch: your cannabis grow is illegal and subject to seizure, with you getting charged under the CDSA, if you are growing illicit cannabis.

You cannot legally possess illicit cannabis, store it, give it away, transport it, or consume it. Illicit cannabis has NOT been legalized.

While we can argue about the difficulty of proving that a grow was from illicit seeds -- as opposed to legal seeds -- we can't have much of a discussion about it if there is not a single licit cannabis seed for sale in Canada. We KNOW, given that fact situation, that any grow must be illegal and the fruits of an illicit cannabis seed.

Yeah, sure, in the fullness of time some company will make some seeds available for purchase. But this only underscores how the entire concept of restricting cannabis seed sales and classifying one as licit and the other as illicit was a BAD PLAN from the word go.

The Cannabis Act will need amendment to deal with this. The easy solution is that cannabis seeds should not be controlled and should simply be available for purchase and sale anywhere. If you want to put an age limit on it, go ahead. But even that seems needlessly heavy-handed. No kid is able to do anything with a cannabis seed in any amount of time that matters. If the parents can't watch their kid for 4 months? That's not on the government.

Today's lack of a single legal seed for sale tells us that the LPs cannot be trusted to serve this market. It is plainly against their economic interests to do so. It always was.

This requires more thought, less reaction.

Welcome to legal weed lol. Unless you are a corrupt government official there is nothing in it for the comes man other then the same thing we had before . the black market . legal wed my ass get use to all of us in the us are .

The only thing legal weed brings is corrupt marketing and low profits for us working people . have fun wile the next year last cause thats the end of it if it goes any thing like it did in all us states lol.

 

[Chimera]

A Seed brokers like days of old would be great, where is Red when you need him?

Sittin’ right beside me bro! He sends his love to the old IC crew ��

-Chimera