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The Grey Market Adds Legitimacy To Licensed Producers

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March 6, 2017

A significant percentage of patients (42%) reported accessing cannabis from illegal/unregulated sources in addition to access via LPs, and over half (55%) were charged to receive a medical recommendation to use cannabis, with nearly 25% paying $300 or more.

International Journal of Drug Policy

We hear how well Licensed Producers (LP’s) are doing in the legal medical cannabis market, how stocks are going up, the market is expanding, and everything is rosy and fine. But there are many problems with the legal market that are being masked by the entrenched grey market. The proof is summarized in a paper entitled, “Medical Cannabis Access, Use, And Substitution For Prescription Opioids And Other Substances: A Survey Of Authorized Medical Cannabis Patients,” published recently in the International Journal of Drug Policy. (1)
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Yearly Cannabis Arrests in Canada

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Cannabis Arrests
1922 ……….. 0
1923 ……….. 0
1924 ……….. 0
1925 ……….. 0
1926 ……….. 0
1927 ……….. 0
1928 ……….. 0
1929 ……….. 0
1930 ……….. 0
1931 ……….. 0
1932 ……….. na
1933 ……….. 0
1934 ……….. 0
1935 ……….. 0
1936 ……….. 0
1937 ……….. 4
1938 ……….. 4
1939 ……….. 12
1940 ……….. 3
1941 ……….. 0
1942 ……….. 0
1943 ……….. 2
1944 ……….. 0
1945 ……….. 0
1946 ……….. 0
1947 ……….. 0
1948 ……….. 6
1949 ……….. 5
1950 ……….. n/a
1951 ……….. 5
1952 ……….. 6
1953 ……….. 7
1954 ……….. 2
1955 ……….. 8
1956 ……….. 1
1957 ……….. 5
1958 ……….. 14
1959 ……….. 22
1960 ……….. 21
1961 ……….. 17
1962 ……….. 16
1963 ……….. 29
1964 ……….. 39
1965 ……….. 32
1966 ……….. 112
1967 ……….. 447
1968 ……….. 817
1969 ……….. 1,476
1970 ……….. 5,399
1971 ……….. (…)
1972 ……….. 10,695
1973 ……….. (…)
1974 ……….. (…)
1975 ……….. (…)
1976 ……….. (…)
1977 ……….. 58,481
1978 ……….. 53,378
1979 ……….. 56,834
1980 ……….. 64,866
1981 ……….. 65,763
1982 ……….. 53,658
1983 ……….. 43,799
1984 ……….. 43,917
1985 ……….. 43,803
1986 ……….. 41,514
1987 ……….. 43,072
1988 ……….. 40,030
1989 ……….. 40,243
1990 ……….. 38,810
1991 ……….. 33,267
1992 ……….. 34,993
1993 ……….. 35,995
1994 ……….. 40,496
1995 ……….. 43,845
1996 ……….. 47,234
1997 ……….. 47,933
1998 ……….. 50,917
1999 ……….. 60,011
2000 ……….. 66,171
2001 ……….. 70,624
2002 ……….. 69,989
2003 ……….. 60,670 *
2004 ……….. 67,832
2005 ……….. 59,973
2006 ……….. 58,878
2007 ……….. 62,510
2008 ……….. 80,061
2009 ……….. 65,316
2010 ……….. 77,126
2011 ……….. 77,954
2012 ……….. 73,594
2013 ……….. 73,273
2014 ……….. 68,010
2015 ……….. 58,659

*Reason for drop

From: CannabisLink.ca

Transitioning to Legal Cannabis

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November 20, 2016

Some people who are experienced with cannabis see a huge need to help educate the public and politicians about this plant because fear seems to abound everywhere. There is still so much misinformation coming from some authoritative sources, and unravelling decades of propaganda is no small task. Most people don’t know that cannabis has never caused a single death in thousands of years of use, and that by over-regulating it to address perceived harms could be a futile effort in the face of a long established illegal market that has been around for decades.

Throughout our lifetimes, cannabis has been a part of society in the worst possible way – total prohibition, which in reality means, no rules, anything goes. Ten and twelve year old children buy, sell and smoke it, and have for decades. Now the rhetoric to strictly regulate and restrict access, implies we will be under an extreme opposite cannabis regime, albeit, a legal one
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