>Provincial government is cash poor. More spendthrift than cash poor. The province has more than enough revenue but cannot control its spending. >The current

>Provincial government is cash poor. More spendthrift than cash poor. The province has more than enough revenue but cannot control its spending. >The current dispensaries are run by criminals. By definition. Just like bootleg operations during prohibition were all run by criminals. Legalization would remove this feature of the system. >Controls over potency are a real problem in the current dispensaries and because of the sketchiness of the current people involved and their distribution networks, the government would have to get involved auditing anyway. Again. This is where Health Canada and the Ontario government can step in and regulate standards. They do that with alcohol (hard to find anything over 40%). If there are unsafe levels of potency, regulate the potency. Government does that with everything else in the market. Pretty much every food item at a grocery store is regulated in some way. My father works at a supplier of frozen food to some of the biggest conglomerates. There are insane amount of regulations related to food safety because if you get sloppy, a Listeria contamination of a TV dinner could kill hundreds of people. And yes, they clean constantly, they have to maintain proper records and have to have an on-site lab that tests samples 3 or 4 times a day - and yes, they get audited.