martin prince wrote:
That's pretty clever, I'll give them that.
I get that we leave a digital fingerprint with everything we do now, and I don't want to get into a full tin foil hat discussion, but this plan takes away the ability for me to pay cash if I were to choose that as a preferred method.
Its mandatory data collection. We don't have it for booze, we should't have it for weed.
Are we the only province doing this? Who can google that for me?
It's probably more to do with them using Shopify as the online retailer than anything nefarious, but I'm just a naive schlub who doesn't assume the worst nearly as often as I should.
In any case, this legalization is going to have a lot of hiccups along the way, and if you're smart (like me) you'll give things a few months to shake down before considering smoking any of that sweet, sweet Canada bud. There are just too many questions right now, like how people will be treated at the CAN/USA border, the new test-anyone-at-any-time impaired driving procedures, and things like that.
Hell I'd even argue that we still wont' see true legalization for a year or more. It's going to take a long time for the reefer madness mindset and social stigmas to wear off. But you already said this somewhere else so you know what I'm sayin'.