Don’t know too much about the Canadian market but isn’t the convenience of not doing something illegal and it being easily accessible worth paying for. That’s why streaming service’s completely beat out piracy
The committed cannabis smokers don't want to spend the extra money, and the rest of us don't care about it enough to keep all these businesses alive.
I live near an ex-urb/suburb of about 20,000 people. There's about 5 Tim Hortons franchises, and I think about 7 cannabis retailers at last count. I strolled into one the other day, a saturday afternoon, and it was a ghost town. Not a person in sight. At least the Tim Hortons have a line-up of addicts at the drive-thru.
I suspect anybody who is serious about smoking the stuff either grows their own (you're permitted up to 4 plants, which is a lot really) or "has a guy."
I live rural, and I have neighbours on one side open-air growing a bunch of plants. Eagerly awaiting first frost, because right now it smells like a college dorm room outside.
>That’s why streaming service’s completely beat out piracy
Are you sure about that?
Streaming is incredibly fragmented + the geolocation based limitations (certain shows are available in X country but not in Y, subtitles and dubbing varies a lot to) are increasingly prominent. Piracy will always triumph because of the ease of access and getting what you want in the format you want.
Music piracy is much harder today than it was 10 years ago. Your logic is consistent, but it doesn't match reality, which is that piracy is on the decline.
>Music piracy is much harder today than it was 10 years ago
What does "harder" mean? Just because what.cd doesn't exist anymore there are still countless trackers and servers out there. I can pretty much download anything I want week 1. There are more music out there that we could listen in our entire lives.
Of course someone always comes up with the question like "what about the tanzanian panflute world music band I've heard in Quito in 1982, where can I find their CD"
modern piracy is pretty easy and becomes cost effective fairly quickly once you start scaling.
but spotify is pretty good, doesn't require a lot of storage, and works on everything to include my phone and my linux desktop. my mom, my kid, and most people i know are able to use it, and "it just works". and spotify has few competitors.
tv and movie streaming, however, is fractured and miserable. there was a minute where a single netflix made it better, but for the month cost of 2 streaming services I could get sickbeard and NZDB and watch whatever i want. then there is the "what service is $show on?" game, which you don't have to worry about with streaming.
and then there is 'owning' -- if you keep your pirated content you have it. meanwhile netflix or hulu can lose the rights and you don't get to see that show again.
Yeah. It’s a worn out political bullet point. The dispensaries are reasonably priced as long as you’re a smart shopper. A lot of the edibles are bad-tasting gimmicks at bizarre price points for how much THC they have. Just don’t buy the junk. I’m sent to the moon on 90 cents worth of THC capsule.
That is absolutely false. Every single person on my team at work pirates instead of paying for the streaming services. At first, when it was just one or two services, I think people did pay, but as prices raised and the streaming services became fragmented, it was much easier to pirate.
I live near an ex-urb/suburb of about 20,000 people. There's about 5 Tim Hortons franchises, and I think about 7 cannabis retailers at last count. I strolled into one the other day, a saturday afternoon, and it was a ghost town. Not a person in sight. At least the Tim Hortons have a line-up of addicts at the drive-thru.
I suspect anybody who is serious about smoking the stuff either grows their own (you're permitted up to 4 plants, which is a lot really) or "has a guy."
I live rural, and I have neighbours on one side open-air growing a bunch of plants. Eagerly awaiting first frost, because right now it smells like a college dorm room outside.