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CanSocDem

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3. My 'blackmarket' dealer is a friend.
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 11:08 AM
Mar 2018

Has been for more than 30 years. At my last visit, he gave me a $50.00 dollar discount on an 'ounce' in an attempt, he said, to compete with the looming legal trade.

He's a friend and I want to see him do well. And I think we as consumers, owe him our business for all of the decades he served our needs without legal protection.

Coincidentally, his city (and my former residence) has a national reputation for its irrational attitude towards cannabis; so despite the national impetus towards legalization, this city and the province are dragging their feet, mightily.

So, my friends' business may be around for a while yet.

More signs of the apocalypse:

My little old hometown (that I first intro'd to pot in 1967) has been designated as a possible sight for a retail cannabis store. I can't help thinking this is an elaborate sting to 'flush out' me and fellow users. Fifty plus years of smoking makes one cautious...

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