Medical Marijuana

[the_tortoise]

Aurora Cannabis Enterprises Limited, marketed under the name IndiMed.

Ah, ok...I'm not exactly surprised it's Aurora.

Sounds similar to how things work here. If you're a pensioner or unemployed medicines are half price.

Here the max discount was (likely still is) 25%.

For my Canadian weed I pay Au$105 for a 15 gram jar

Yeah that's pricey and similar to medicinal price here -- ranges mostly from about $6/g to $9/g- although can be much lower cost ($3-4/g) with sales and discounts.

Some recreational brands charge that or more (can go up to $10/g) but you can get high quality cannabis in the recreational market for less than or close to $100/28g. Prices tend to be based on THC content and not much else. (I don't know why they've made 28g the standard for largest quantity sold - the limit for public possession for recreational is 30g so you'd think that would be then largest quantity sold but it isn't.)

 

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(I don't know why they've made 28g the standard for largest quantity sold - the limit for public possession for recreational is 30g so you'd think that would be then largest quantity sold but it isn't.)

I suspect it's the old measures still hanging around - 27.54 grams to an ounce.

$105 for 15 grams is my discounted pensioner price, others have to pay $210 for that 15 grams.

 

[JayLapointe]

Aurora Cannabis Enterprises Limited, marketed under the name IndiMed.

https://www.auroramedical.com/

That is too funny a coincidence. Yep so the local guys likely are growing your stuff as that company is under contract to grow for Aurora's medical side. And now I'm humming "it's a small world after all". Wild to think that what is growing in my town is very likely being shipped 16'500km's away.

 

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That is too funny a coincidence. Yep so the local guys likely are growing your stuff as that company is under contract to grow for Aurora's medical side. And now I'm humming "it's a small world after all". Wild to think that what is growing in my town is very likely being shipped 16'500km's away.

Austro-Canadian trade is increasing lately, as it should. Having similar political systems makes trade a lot less complicated. In many areas we have been competing with each other but that's changing now that we're phasing out coal and gas. If your car manufacturers switched to making smaller European style cars instead of yank tanks that would open up a lot more markets for you.

Canada has shown a lot of interest in Aussie military hardware recently too, our radar and detection systems as well as our underwater drones.

 

[JayLapointe]

Austro-Canadian trade is increasing lately, as it should. Having similar political systems makes trade a lot less complicated. In many areas we have been competing with each other but that's changing now that we're phasing out coal and gas. If your car manufacturers switched to making smaller European style cars instead of yank tanks that would open up a lot more markets for you.

Canada has shown a lot of interest in Aussie military hardware recently too, our radar and detection systems as well as our underwater drones.

Sadly we are still dealing with trying to prevent Canadians from becoming yank impersonators so we're too busy at the moment to think of non yank tank type vehicles. I hope that changes as we've just lifted the 100% tariff on the import of Chinese ev's. Once those hit the market that will force North American automakers to smarten up and realize "bigger" isn't always better. I read somewhere that since the 90's SUV's have gotten something like 25% bigger.

Not sure on trucks but I know what used to fit in a standard parking stall no longer does, yet the available box space has not increased. All the truck size is in outer body shell and interior cab space, not actual useable space. It is a pet peeve the nobs you see driving trucks but are only using them as personal transport, grocery getters. never once actually using a pickup truck for work hauling anything in the bed. The bed they have to never use because heaven forbid it get scratched or dirty. Sorry for the rant/ramble there.

 

[the_tortoise]

yank tanks

Never heard that before - permanent part of my vocabulary now.

If your car manufacturers switched to making smaller European style cars instead of yank tanks that would open up a lot more markets for you.

Our only truly Canadian (as in designed and manufactured here for Canadian-owned companies) vehicles are mostly or entirely vehicles for industrial transport (e.g. long-haul transport trucks, buses)

Otherwise our auto manufacturing industry just does assembly for auto companies based in the USA, Europe or Asia.

Canadian automotive industry

 

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Not sure on trucks but I know what used to fit in a standard parking stall no longer does...

Something that brought a smile to my face. By law shopping centres have to provide a certain number of parking spaces, bigger parking spaces means they'd need more land, which in established suburban areas simply isn't available.

Now for insurance reasons some shopping centres have introduced width restrictors, big cars with vague steering owned by useless drivers cause too much damage. If you don't fit between the bollards you can't come in.

[Edit] My little Skoda goes through with feet to spare on both sides.

 

[JayLapointe]

@the_tortoise Don't forget the legacy of the Briklin SV1 from the early 1970's that was made in New Brunswick.

 

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Aussie car manufacturers all closed down during the 2010s. Now most of our cars come from Japan and Germany.

Australia has always been a good market for Japan and they still make Utes for us instead of those stupid oversized pieces of junk. They're suffering a little bit of the body bloat that seems to be fashion these days but they're still just a ute. Something where the tray is at an easily accessible height and it drives like a car instead of a truck.

A ute is a tradesman's tool, not a fashion statement, incredibly popular here.

 

[JayLapointe]

Aussie car manufacturers all closed down during the 2010s. Now most of our cars come from Japan and Germany.

Australia has always been a good market for Japan and they still make Utes for us instead of those stupid oversized pieces of junk. They're suffering a little bit of the body bloat that seems to be fashion these days but they're still just a ute. Something where the tray is at an easily accessible height and it drives like a car instead of a truck.

A ute is a tradesman's tool, not a fashion statement, incredibly popular here.

Those look like excellent little trucks, the kind of thing I'd want. I always love this comparison photo, the volume of both truck beds is identical.

 

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Those look like excellent little trucks, the kind of thing I'd want. I always love this comparison photo, the volume of both truck beds is identical.

Utes come in all sorts of different configurations, but the basic rules stay the same. The front is a comfortable sedan, something you'd be happy to drive around all day every day and reasonably cheap on fuel, very important to independent contractors. The tray on the back can be almost anything to suit what work you do, from closed in and lockable tool cabinets to just a simple flat tray.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

A friend of mine who has a medical marijuana prescription for chronic depression told me that he smokes it because he doesn't have a gallbladder which is needed to process THC that is ingested. I don't know if that is true. He says sativa strains are the best for him, and he characterizes marijuana as either "sleep on the couch" types or "obsessively clean the house" types.

That’s the kind I need.