It becomes law in Manitoba on May 1st - people can grow there own weed, although they can’t smoke or grow it outside, let’s put cannabis in a Canadian perspective and lots of support for cannabis and a new a study gives cred to cannabis fighting cancer and we stop on Cultivar Corner, brought to you by Up In Smoke, when try Lord Nelson Chocolate Fusions.
It becomes law in Manitoba on May 1st - people can grow there own weed, although they can’t smoke or grow it outside, let’s put cannabis in a Canadian perspective and lots of support for cannabis and a new a study gives cred to cannabis fighting cancer and we stop on Cultivar Corner, brought to you by Up In Smoke, when try Lord Nelson Chocolate Fusions.
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Ian
From a studio high above the clouds of the Okanagan Valley. This is the cannabis potcast.
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Ian
Exploring the world of Canadian cannabis culture. One toke at a time. Here is your host and Bud tender Gary Johnston.
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Gary Johnston
And who can miss a perfect opportunity to welcome you to the Cannabis potcast? Thank you for coming back. I'm so pleased if this is your first time. I'm even more pleased by that. For the next 30 minutes, we are going to spend talking about a plant I am absolutely passionate about, and that is cannabis. Now, before we get too much further, let me remind you this podcast is intended for those of legal consumption and your jurisdiction and is intended purely for entertainment and perhaps educational purposes.
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Gary Johnston
You should always consume your cannabis responsibly. It becomes law in Manitoba on May 1st. People can grow their own weed, although they can't smoke it outside, or in fact, they can't even grow it outside. And let's put cannabis in a Canadian perspective and we get lots of support for cannabis. Plus, a new study gives credit to cannabis fighting cancer.
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Gary Johnston
And then we're going to stop on Cultivar Corner. Brought to you by Up in Smoke when we try Lord Nelson chocolate fusions. Interesting. All of that and more. On episode 205 of the Cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
Well, we are getting better at doing what we're doing. We've made the decision, of course, as we dealt with my stroke a couple of weeks ago, and now I actually get my driving privileges back on Election Day, so I'm pretty excited about that. And I have cut down on the weed, but I also thought it's also appropriate when I'm doing the podcast that I have some weed, because that's often where we connect and that's often been what we have shared.
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Gary Johnston
So I've actually smoked some weed today. I have given myself the inspiration to record the stories that we need to do today. And of course, I'm well with under my limit of how much cannabis I'm smoking. I'm really enjoying it. And I have to be honest and say, I've been able to make my weed go really far, but it is nice to come back into the studio and get into the sense of talking about weed.
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Gary Johnston
Well, I'm talking about weed. I always love that. So I thought it was appropriate to let you know that we have kind of made, an adjustment where we will add some cannabis back into the part of the podcast itself, and maybe we'll we'll work that up and we'll do a cultivar corner and get back to weed. That would be nice too.
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Gary Johnston
Once we get a little more comfortable with where we are. So thank you for your support, man. Let's go. But I also want to say thank you for being a listener of the Cannabis potcast. I really appreciate the fact that you were here and the fact that you come by each and every time. So thank you so much for that.
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Gary Johnston
Also, I want to thank my patrons at Patreon, everybody who has contributed. I so appreciate that. Tony, Rob, Gage, Lloyd, Roger, Justin and Lindy. Thank you each and every one of you so much for your support. Now let's get to our first story. We picked this area up from Strat Candle com written by David Brown. Adults in Manitoba may be able to begin to grow up before cannabis plants at home.
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Gary Johnston
This May, the Manitoba government has now listed May 1st, 2005, as the coming into force date for its repeal of the Prohibition on adults growing up to four cannabis plants at home. That's the date of the liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Control Amendment Act comes into force. The legislation will allow a person who is 19 years of age or over to cultivate up to four cannabis plants in their residence.
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Gary Johnston
In a notice in January, the proposed regulations required cannabis to be grown in an indoor location that is inaccessible to young persons. The previously announced proposed coming into force date for the legislation was April 1st, 2025. As an aside to this, I can't believe this is taking that long to get to be able to grow plants indoors. I'm sorry.
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Gary Johnston
The ban on growing cannabis at home had been put in place by the former Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba in 2018. The Manitoba NDP committed to repealing the bill and did so after forming the government in the October 23rd election. The proposed regulations will allow a person who's 19 years of age or older to cultivate up to four cannabis plants in their ordinary residence.
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Gary Johnston
However, a person will not be allowed to cultivate cannabis plants in different residences at the same time. Only four plants can be in a home, regardless of how many adults reside there. All cannabis plants will be required to come from seeds or plant material that is not illicit cannabis, and all plants must be cultivated indoors in a room or container that is securely locked or in a location that is not otherwise accessible to young persons.
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Gary Johnston
In a recent memo from Manitoba Liquor and Laundries, retailers were informed that they would soon be able to add cannabis seeds to their product offerings. Tina Jansen, the buyer at Farmer Jane Cannabis, which has six locations in Manitoba, says she hopes to have seeds in store by early June following a product call from Bill. I'm hopeful we will not be waiting long after May 1st date before we will be able to purchase seed, because I do think there will be an initial rush of people very excited to try their hand at growing cannabis.
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Gary Johnston
Jessie Lavoie, who helped to spearhead a lawsuit targeting Manitoba's homegrown man with his group Tober Grown, says he's happy to see the law progressing, but has some concerns with some of the proposed regulations. Manitobans deserve, and we had grown Groner beyond excited to watch the homegrown community grow and thrive in Manitoba, Lavoie told Strachan via email. If a ban on growing four plants outdoors is set in place, I will move forward with a challenge in court, although we hope to to avoid further legal battles.
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Gary Johnston
We've come too far to accept half measures. Let's make home growing truly accessible. And I have to add a sidebar to this. I'm sorry. I'm going to apply a lot of my my opinion here. That is insane that you have to grow your cannabis plants indoors, under lights.
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Gary Johnston
If they think this is progress, Jessie, you should launch that claim before they even start because you should be able to grow your plants outdoors in the Manitoba Sunshine. And a sidebar.
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Ian
For the cannabis infused studio in the clouds. This is the cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
And we're going to 420 in Telecom for a major study that lifts cannabis cancer fighting street cred. What's claimed to be the largest ever study delving into the use of medical cannabis for treating and managing cancer has been published. Researchers from the USA Hole Health Oncology Institute and Chopra Foundation engaged in a meta analysis of thousands of studies on medical cannabis to determine if there was any consensus on its therapeutic potential, safety profile and role in cancer treatment.
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Gary Johnston
The exercise involved more than 10,000 peer reviewed research papers and sentiment analysis. Their work revealed significant consensus supporting the use of medical cannabis in terms of health metrics, cancer treatment, and cancer dynamics. The aggregated correlation strength of cannabis across all cancer topics indicates that support for medical cannabis is 31.38% stronger than opposition to it. Aside from the benefits in treatment, including addressing side effects from conventional treatments such as heal therapy, a very interesting observation was the anti carcinogenic potential of cannabis showed robust support, suggesting a reliable consensus in this area.
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Gary Johnston
But the researchers also noted that topics such as remission presented weaker or under associations, but the overall picture is a positive one. The consistent correlation strength for cannabis, as both a palliative adjunct and a potential anti carcinogenic agent, redefined the consensus around cannabis as a medical intervention. Seek the researchers. The findings certainly challenges the notion that medical cannabis has no accepted medical use.
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Gary Johnston
One of the criteria that saw it designated as a schedule one substance in the USA, alongside substances including heroin, LSD and MDMA. Among the limitations acknowledging the study was the use of sentiment analysis that inevitably includes inaccuracies, and in this case, the study was additionally dependent on machine learning. Whole Health Oncology Institute describes itself as an organization providing comprehensive and credible information on the use of integrative treatments, including medicinal cannabis, in cancer treatment.
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Gary Johnston
The Chopra Foundation focuses on conducting scientific research examining the effects of mind body practices on health and well-being. The study, titled Meta Analysis of Medical Cannabis Outcomes and Associations with cancer, has been published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology. Really interesting information. Love to hear stories about that. That's from 420 intel.com. So as you are aware, I am smoking less weed.
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Gary Johnston
Definitely smoking less weed. In fact, when I buy my weed, I'm usually buying it in eights or quarters. And interestingly enough, this is why this came up for discussion. I picked up an eighth of some weed at my local cannabis store. Spirit leaf. And when I got it. So this is Jack of rare jamboree buds. He's kind of cool.
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Gary Johnston
Talks about a THC of 28% and, no, 32% THC. Really nice in that regard. And then I pick up my package. I got my bag, and and I got this. This can chilly. Billy. Bud, squeeze in a cannabis can. Okay, that's kinda cool, I guess. Kind of neat that it has a different thing, different packaging. But I question why.
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Gary Johnston
Because now when I open up this, can I first of all have that really weird piece that we have to get through before the can itself can be opened? That really caused me a lot of pain. And then when I was ready to pop the lid on the can, I peel off that and and there's a, there's a baggie in the can that has my weed.
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Gary Johnston
3.5g, you know, in a sandwich bag. And now I gotta find place to put that. I'm. I'm sorry. I'm not impressed. I don't even think it's that cool of an idea. But I don't think that's where we want to have our cannabis packaging done in jars and put in plastic bags. I think that one is not.
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Gary Johnston
That one's probably not going to take off.
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Ian
To see CBD to be in profile, which to me, okay. Explain to me. Go to the cover.
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Unknown
Go to your club. Oh, yeah. Go to the corner.
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Ian
Please explain this stuff to me.
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Gary Johnston
Welcome to Cultivar Corner. Brought to you by Up in Smoke at 258 West Broadway in Vancouver and online at It's Up in Smoke icon. And remember, if you live in B.C. and you have an address in B.C. and you buy some stuff on the up and smoke menu, you can have it sent to you. It's it's that easy.
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Gary Johnston
Today we're doing something different. Now I'm also using information that was given to me by Theresa Boers. Some suggestions for how to deal with the edibles and a lot of a lot of advice. And, and she realized she hasn't realized that edibles do not work for me very well at all. And so this is Lourdes Jones chocolate infusions, cookies and cream.
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Gary Johnston
It's an indica. Now, this entire package is ten milligrams. Yeah, you heard me. I said the entire package is ten milligrams. Do I think this is going to have some effect on me? I don't think so. Let's see. Is it using live rosin? No. It's not. It's probably just going to be cannabis extract and edible.
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Ian
Cannabis.
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Gary Johnston
And with cannabis extract. So there's not going to be any live resin or anything like that. There's going to be some, some distillate that they use to get me some cannabis. Now these are whoa whoa whoa.
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Ian
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
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Gary Johnston
Don't get too excited. These are five cookies and cream. So here we go. Let's get number one.
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Gary Johnston
Okay.
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Gary Johnston
I have to say. To no taste.
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Ian
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Gary Johnston
A cookies and cream chocolate infusions or chocolate fusions. I really like that's that's really nice. The cookies and cream. Now each of these is two milligrams of THC, two milligrams of THC.
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Ian
And.
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Gary Johnston
And we'll see what that does a huge number to.
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Ian
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Gary Johnston
Very very tasty.
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Ian
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Gary Johnston
I love the taste. So it's a very chocolaty taste. You definitely getting a chocolate feeling to this. And we're going to number three.
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Ian
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Ian
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Gary Johnston
I really love the taste.
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Gary Johnston
So it's a pretty good a feel of not a lot of nice talking and a little cream. It's an indica so we know we're going that way. And now we're down to number four.
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Ian
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Gary Johnston
And they each continue to be very tasty.
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Gary Johnston
Or very tasty indeed. So I'm going to finish up number four or number five. We'll have then had our five cookies and cream little chocolate balls. And we then got to ten milligrams of THC.
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Gary Johnston
Delicious.
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Gary Johnston
So I think we are at the point where we're now going to have some discussion and some evaluation of what my cannabis is like. Okay. It's a very, very tasty. Probably a little more sugar than I needed. I only seven grams of sugar. Okay. A very tasty. Lord Jones chocolate fusions cannabis. And and my intention in these is to see if I can feel something from this ten milligrams of THC.
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Ian
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Gary Johnston
I did have something to eat beforehand, so I got a little digestion going and a little bit of fat. A body fat. And now we're going to see. So we'll take this out to I don't know. We'll try it about 30 minutes and we'll see if we've had any change in, in like constipation. See if we've had any change in how I'm feeling about things after 30 minutes and whether or not it has had it has had some, some nothing, and whether or not it is literally done something that we think will happen.
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Gary Johnston
I don't know what will. So we'll break and we'll come back after 30 minutes.
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Gary Johnston
All right. Let me let me bring you up to date. We have passed the 30 minute mark, in fact, for about 35 minutes. I don't feel anything so far. And maybe we will as this goes on further. Interestingly enough, with what Theresa Bohr said. Me? She made this point in and I'm just going to make this point because I need to make sure that we're clear on that.
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Gary Johnston
I wonder if you take your edibles first in the podcast. Start with Cultivar Corner, then see if anything is activated by the end of the podcast. Things you can observe in an edible that may be different for smoking include activation time. How was the edible comment came on suddenly, suddenly? How long it lasted? How it made you feel, taste?
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Gary Johnston
Flavor, ingredients. It would be nice to explore what cultivars were used, what processing method decided versus rosin versus violet? If this was documented, it may help people determine what they would prefer. You can experiment with different intentions as you take cannabis and see what impact that makes on the experience. Intention. It can be anything from wanting to feel a certain way, wanting to produce a symptom, exploring spirituality, exploring sensuality, just having a high.
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Gary Johnston
The options are endless. Well, and it's important to understand. Highlight safety with edibles. The most common thing that happens is people who don't feel anything within an hour and get impatient to then take another bite. Well, the first bite kicks in shortly after that, and the second bite and you're constantly higher than you intended. An extra high from an edible is not that I'm not comfortable in the body, and last much longer than an extra high for manipulation.
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Gary Johnston
People should be very aware to start low and dose once in 24 hours. Let that dose go through the system before trying. If it was too low of a dose, then goes up a bit. Five milligrams at a time. The next time. And this is where I have to I have to be clear, my metabolism does not deal well with edibles.
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Gary Johnston
I could pretend that I might feel this for the next four hours. I haven't, and I'm not going to. So here we are. We are now, I think at about 40 minutes. And perhaps we'll we'll carry and monitor this for a little bit longer just to make sure that whether or not I have had the effect that you think I have or that I should.
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Ian
Have.
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Gary Johnston
It's an animal with ten milligrams of THC. It's it's not going to do a lot of people good. And the five, two milligram ten, they were really good. The chocolate fusions. Chocolate and cookie indica. They were really good. And let me remind you, Cultivar Corner is brought to you by Up in Smoke at 258 West Broadway in Vancouver and online at It's Up and smoke.com.
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Gary Johnston
Remember, if you live in B.C., you have an address in B.C. you can get stuff, shift to you and enjoy it. Enjoy it from your front door. You might not be enjoying it perhaps as much as I am. This, because I don't think it's going to feel very good. I'm not going to feel any different an hour from now than I was that 30 minutes when I ate those.
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Gary Johnston
Unfortunately, the THC is just and going into my body and coming out. Oh well. We tried.
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Ian
Sharing stories about good weed while.
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Gary Johnston
Trying good weed. This is the cannabis potcast. We're getting this story from Strack and Com. It's written by David Brown. Most Canadians see the cannabis industry as a positive income contributor, or believe it could play a significant role in bolstering the country's future, according to a new survey from Abacus Data. This support spanned across political affiliations, with the highest level of support from the Greens and NDP, followed by the liberals, conservatives and then the bloc of Aqua.
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Gary Johnston
A majority of Canadians, 62%, strongly or somewhat agreed that cannabis could be an important contributor to the economy in the future. Well, only 13% disagreed. The survey, conducted on behalf of Moncton based cannabis producer Organigram Global with input from 1900 Canadian adults from April 3rd to eighth, 2025, dispels the idea that politicians support for the cannabis industry is a politically risky stance.
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Gary Johnston
As a pollster, especially among conservative voters. What that support could look like is unclear, though. When asked about an unnamed hypothetical industry that had contributed $40 billion to Canada's GDP, creating 80,000 new jobs in mid-sized cities over the past eight years, and had the potential to add billions more to GDP while creating hundreds of thousands of additional jobs over the next five years.
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Gary Johnston
74% of respondents said it would be a good idea for the next federal government to support such an industry. Only 2% said it was a bad idea. However, when told the industry in question was the cannabis industry, those Canadians who supported the idea of federal support dropped to 48%, while those who said it was a bad idea increased to 20%.
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Gary Johnston
The majority of respondents, 57%, said they believe the Canadian cannabis industry was already an important contributor to the economy, with 14% disagreeing. Support for this idea was strongest in the Prairies and Atlantic Canada, followed by Ontario, B.C., Quebec and Alberta. Openness to the idea that the next federal government should do more to support the cannabis industry was also highest in Atlantic Canada at 72%, followed by Ontario, B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Alberta and Quebec.
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Gary Johnston
Younger Canadians, 18 to 29, were most likely to support the idea of the next federal government making the cannabis industry easier. 73%, followed by those aged 30 to 44 at 69% and those aged 45 to 59 at 60%, and lowest among those 60 and up at 57%. These findings, argue the pollsters, contradict the idea that cannabis might be a politically risky topic, especially among more conservative or cashes or cautious voters.
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Gary Johnston
Although regional differences do still factor in specifics of what government assistance would be supported by Canadians were not clear. Although the paper presenting the results suggest that this could translate into support to remove interprovincial barriers on cannabis sales reform the excise taxation framework, standardize regulations and encourage investment in research and development. Whether you're campaigning in downtown Vancouver, rural Ontario or Atlantic Canada pushing for responsible regulatory reforms or investment incentives for the cannabis sector is unlikely to provoke significant blowback, concludes the abacus presentation.
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Gary Johnston
On the contrary, the data suggests that more than half of voters in every region and within every party's base would be comfortable or even excited to see the industry continue to expand. And let's hope that's the case. And I hope that's true, because I'm not hearing any of our candidates talk about the cannabis space in this election in any degree.
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Gary Johnston
This story we're picking up from Strack Hanekom, and it has been contributed. As the clock counts down to our federal election, an advocacy campaign has been launched to let politicians across the country know that the cannabis sector matters. The All Cannabis First campaign supports Canadians to directly email their candidates and elected representatives at the provincial and federal levels to let them know that the cannabis industry matters and it needs urgent attention to survive.
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Gary Johnston
In 2018, Canada made global headlines as the first G7 country to legalize cannabis. Canadians flocked to build a bold and promising industry that would bring safe access, economic growth and global leadership. Since then, the sound of silence. It's as if the government turned the lights on and then promptly decided to never think about cannabis ever again. In the ensuing almost seven years, regulations around marketing have barely budged, despite licensed producers and retailers far surpassing expectations on protecting youth and providing safe products.
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Gary Johnston
The excise tax came the product of a fever dream, or a gram of cannabis would sell for $10 and above is widely acknowledged to be crippling the industry. The government set the tax at 10% of the retail price per gram or $1, whichever is greater. In a world where the wholesale price of cannabis is well under a dollar per gram, and the best selling dried flower on OCS sells for $3.50 a gram, including all taxes.
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Gary Johnston
That tax scheme results in almost half of licensed producers, either in or approaching bankruptcy. A 2002 report from Toronto based law firm Miller Thompson states that losses across 183 publicly traded cannabis firms have cost Canadian investors $131 billion. And yes, you heard that correctly. Thousands of jobs have been lost. Innovation has stalled. The illegal market still makes up 25% of sales, and the government has done nothing.
00;28;23;18 - 00;28;51;24
Gary Johnston
Why politicians, plainly put, don't like cannabis during this election cycle and Ontario's in the fall. How many candidates from the three major parties showed up for a photo opportunity at a licensed producer? Zero. Despite cannabis creating more than 150,000 jobs, producing more than $8 billion in GDP and a windfall for provincial regulators and distributors. Never mind the taxes, they're desperate to put on a hard hat and do construction work.
00;28;51;24 - 00;29;22;02
Gary Johnston
Cosplay. But they want absolutely nothing to do with the cannabis sector. Why? It can't just be that no one looks good in a hairnet and a paper suit. It's because they steal largely fear being associated with the product, which is strange because it was legalized to reflect the fact that a majority of Canadians supported it. An abacus research study published last week showed 64% of Canadians are open to the idea of the next federal government, making it easier for Canada's cannabis industry to grow.
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Gary Johnston
Yes, 7% of respondents said they would be very angry about this, but to be fair, it's possible that 7% wake up very angry about many things in the midst of a trade war with the United States. Canadians have begun a long overdue conversation regarding the need to stop following and start leading in the search for industries where there is a global possibility.
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Gary Johnston
Cannabis has to be near the top, a viable candidate despite an astounding level of neglect. It is still within the realm of possibility that the next government could create an environment where Canadians could innovate, build and make a much larger contribution to the Canadian economy. There are no billion dollar bailouts or subsidies required. Everybody knows what needs to be done.
00;30;06;08 - 00;30;30;06
Gary Johnston
There just needs to be the political courage to make it happen. Fix the tax trap. Scrap the ludicrous $1 per gram excise tax. It punishes producers and props up the black market to move to a manageable percentage of scale. Model. Let us speak. Update the recording and marketing and packaging rules. Let legal businesses inform and engage with consumers.
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Gary Johnston
Enforce the law. Make it harder for illegal retailers to operate with impunity online and in stores. Cut the red tape. Align federal and provincial rules. Stop wasting time, money and patience and back us globally. Support exports. Champion Canadian cannabis on the world stage. Stop pretending this industry doesn't exist. The content was contributed by David Roderick, the former senior director of communications at the Ontario Cannabis Store and the principal of Pathfinders Strategic Communications.
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Gary Johnston
Some great ideas in there and I hope somebody listens. Once again, thank you so much for being here. I so appreciate the fact that you are a fan of the Cannabis potcast. Also, if you ever want to comment on anything, don't forget you can send a note to info at Cannabis potcast.com and you can go to buy me a coffee.com/cannabis potcast.
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Gary Johnston
If you like what you hear and you feel so inclined, please buy me a doobie. And now let's go to the worst bad jokes in the world. We'll see how this long this can drive for me. So why do bees have sticky hater? Because they use a honeycomb. What did the big flower say to the little flower after smoking cannabis?
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Gary Johnston
Hi, Bud. I might have did that one before. We'll see if. If I did, I don't think I did. Why was the picture sent to jail? It was framed. Where do rabbits go after they get married? On a bunny.
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Ian
Moon. There we.
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Gary Johnston
Go. We've added two more to that. I've hope you had a good time today. From the guy in the clouds. That's it for episode 205 of the Cannabis potcast.
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Ian
From the cannabis infused studio High above the Okanagan Valley. This was the cannabis potcast.