Proposed Deregulation of the Canadian Cannabis Market.
Cannabis should be sold anywhere! Bars and restaurants must be allowed to serve cannabis!
Cannabis should be sold anywhere, in whatever retail outlets that wish to carry cannabis and in any form. Retail must be allowed to add a high demand product to their retail outlet's lines if so desired. Grocery stores are a natural cannabis outlet. For those who were driven into investing into a Cannabis Retail Store by the Canadian and provincial government's first out of the gate unacceptable regulations, the cannabis market has clearly rejected, compensation enough to create a cannabis farm, greenhouse or field operation. Allowing the original investment into their retail spaces to turn a profit as their cannabis farm's, farm stand.
Bars and restaurants must be allowed to serve cannabis and no smoking restrictions must lifted on cannabis as there are no toxic properties to cannabis, even when burned, according to a US FDA study commissioned by US president Bill Clinton which confirms a US Academy of Sciences study commissioned by president Richard Nixon. This would be a boon for bar and restaurant owner's across Canada, creating profits for farmers, distributors and retailers everywhere. There are already shisha hooka lounges where the customers smoke tobacco products. Cannabis is non toxic and poses no threat to anyone and must be allowed to be smoked on premises.
Any farmer must be allowed to add cannabis to their crop mix. A past or existing cannabis farmer, in the grey market will be considered a farmer, with or without land and be eligible for land grants and start up capital as compensation for not being de-criminalized and for being cut out of the so-called “Legal” market. Because cannabis including industrial hemp, fix nitrogen into the soil by collecting it from the air and fix carbon, phosphate and potassium with the roots of the cannabis plant, into the soil, cannabis can fix a fallow field while yielding a profitable crop at the same time. Cannabis regulation must be moved from the Canadian Dept. Of Health to the Department of Agriculture. Canadian farm regulations will govern the farming of cannabis. Health Canada, of course will continue to fund studies to pursue the health benefits of cannabis, that all of us patients know to well. For those that invested in Cannabis production in the so-called legal market in Canada, that have suffered losses will be offered tax breaks for compensation for being regulated into a narrow market but because sophisticated investors should have done their due diligence to realize that their would be a rejection of the narrow legal market, for the grey market.
All regulations of all industrial hemp production must be lifted as the yet untapped fibre market is the best supplement to Canada's rapidly shrinking fibre resources. Canadian hemp fibre can be grown all across Canada and mixed directly in with existing fibre in paper mills, mixed in structurally engineered wood products, adding enormous strength and mold resistance to studs, joists, fibre plywood, increasing snow load strength to any structure. Hempcrete or hemp fibre mixed in concrete is a fast growing market in the US and Canada. Hemp plastics are already on the market. Canada cannot sit still and must absolutely tap this market before all of our mills shut down forever.
All medical cannabis dispensaries forced to close due the Cannabis Act will be compensated and be allowed to grow cannabis and to open doctor assisted clinics and dispensaries.
All those put in legal jeoprody by Canada's illicit cannabis prohibition laws in the past and present must be paid reperations and have their criminal records expunged of cannabis charges and any related charges as a general amnesty to end the Canadian Drug War. With hard drug users being decriminalized here in British Columbia, for addicts to be able to walk around with small amounts of otherwise illicit hard drugs in their possession, with no threat of arrest, all cannabis regulations must be abandoned, as unworkable, as the cannabis market has proven.
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