Hash dealer fails at dealing pot

[sabotabby]

I've never been a drug dealer and, admittedly, know very little about dealing drugs. I don't even do drugs these days. I have two beers and suddenly I am on the flood declaring my love for everyone in the room and also the floor and for cats in general. Drugs and I are just not a thing with my middle-aged metabolism. So basically I don't have a dog in the legalized-weed race, and I am perfectly happy buying my beer in the government-regulated and unionized LCBO for more than $1, unlike I guess many voters in the province of Ontario who felt that cheap beer and weed were more important than healthcare, their kids' education, or the environment.

I am given to understand, however, that in most places where they've legalized weed, it's been quite a profitable enterprise. People like their weed. Canadians in particular, really really like weed.

You'd think perhaps the one job that Doug Ford, previously a mid-level hash dealer in Etobicoke, would actually be qualified for—unlike running every other facet of the province—would be presiding over the legalization of weed.

Nope! He full-on lost money at it.

Good thing the deficit was only half of what he said it was.

Maybe now he can hire back some of the teachers he fired? No? You mean that none of this is about fiscal responsibility? I am shocked!

Comments

[notasupervillain]

Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

[sabotabby]

Shocked to find out that the house is losing money.

[notasupervillain]

Point.

[minoanmiss]

The main/only reason I'm for marijuana legalization is that so many POC are in prison for stupidly small amounts of pot. I find it annoying when people smoke in public, I just find it more annoying that IIRC a third of Black American adults can't vote because former felons are bared from voting and so many of us have felony records doe to nonviolent drug offenses that White people by and large just don't get charged with.

All that said, people do love their pot. See above about being annoyed when people smoke in public. Selling pot is the nearestt thing to printing money, and DF managed to lose money doing so. That is freaking hilarious.

[sabotabby]

I think the federal government is overturning some of the criminal convictions, but it should have been instantaneous purge-with-compensation. On top of that, people with criminal records and/or a history of running dispensaries were banned from legally running dispensaries, with those contracts given to friends for the most part.

Shit tons of POC are still in prison for drug stuff here and I don't see that changing any time soon, hence my apathy around legalization.

[minoanmiss]

Ugh, same here. How can people still be in prison for something not illegal anymore? But people are also still being arrested for something supposedly not illegal anymore, so.

Sometimes I wonder why I continue to hope, but I can't stop. It's not sensible. :)

[conuly]

Yes, this - also, I completely disbelieve in felony disenfranchisement, even when they're still in prison. Unless the crime was vote tampering, I see no reason why criminals shouldn't be able to vote. (I feel even more strongly about that when I see how the census counts prisoners.)

[sabotabby]

That's how it is here. And I think in most civilized parts of the world where they didn't put in a sneak provision so that they could get slavery/Jim Crow back.

[lapinlunaire]

This.

At least where I live having weed (or other drugs) on you isn't illegal if it's below a certain amount, for personal use. But I don't think harsh laws just for possession will ever help anyone. And I agree, it's not coincidental who gets or doesn't get charged with drug offences. How is it possible that I've read/seen on the news that people of this or that ethnic minority are being investigated for dealing, but then when I was at uni the (white) dealers my friends used always seemed to be in the clear?

[sabotabby]

I've known a number of people who dealt drugs but AFAIK the only person I ever knew who did time for it was black. And all he sold was weed and he was the world's least violent person ever on account of he was not a very good drug dealer and smoked a lot of his own product.

(Though I suspect he was still a better drug dealer than Ford. Or at least a more likeable one.)

[lapinlunaire]

I, for one, am shocked! Also genuinely surprised, you'd think having sketchy connections would really help with that weed money. O_O I also don't understand people who desperately want cheap beer and weed. If you're not a broke teenager, surely you should have standards!

PS I don't need beer to declare my love for the floor and cats in general (but would need way more than two beers to declare my love for everyone in the room, I likely hate everyone in the room because they're not the floor or cats in general)

[sabotabby]

Right? I think the nepotism and poor math skills outweighed experience in his case.

Teenagers aren't supposed to buy drugs or alcohol but he's also devastated the economy, so there are a lot of folks now out of work. Maybe that's his target audience? But I think they would have preferred to have their jobs and pay market rates for substances.

I declare my love for cats all the time, and the floor every time my back hurts, but I'm louder about both when I'm drunk.