Ontario: LCBO a real buzz kill for marijuana sales
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.TORONTO - Now that the LCBO has shown it can't handle its vodka, we better rethink how to sell pot.
Unless you've been high since Christmas, you know Premier Kathleen Wynne and union boss Smokey Thomas - Smokey and the Bandit - are pushing to have weed, when the feds make it legal, added to the shelves of LCBO stores.
No surprise there, given Queen's Park's chronic case of the munchies.
Few "new revenue tools" are as tempting as the marijuana business. Wynne and Thomas's Ontario Public Service Employees Union lust after it, from sales to taxes.
But can we trust them to tell weed from oregano?
Last week, I wrote about a bottle of water masquerading as Smirnoff vodka sold by LCBO to a nice, unsuspecting couple from Pickering. It had been "returned" for a $56.95 refund by some fraudster, then placed back on the shelf by staff. Other bad bottles have...
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